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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields. Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.

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Title:
North Korean prisoners of war blood petitions.
Description:
Blood petitions made by North Korean prisoners of war who did not want to return to Communist North Korea following the armistice in 1953. Features an explanatory letter written by Charles A. Anderson to Rev. Harold Voelkel, a chaplain to POWs during the war.
Subject names:
Anderson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1889-1962., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Prisoners of war--Korea., Fingerprints.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145118
Title:
The Church herald.
Description:
A Christian weekly serving the Reformed Church in America. Caption: Sukeman Itami, Japanese American. Includes article on Protestant deputation to Japan.
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Reformed Church in America--Periodicals., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141420
Title:
Korean Missionaries, group photo.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916., Moffett, Samuel Austin, 1864-1939., Adams, James Edward, 1867-1929., Johnson, Woodbridge.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115545
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
William Baird and Annie (Adams) Baird. James E. Adams and Nellie (Dick) Adams. About 1897.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916., Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Adams, James Edward, 1867-1929., Adams, Nellie G. Dick, 1866-1909.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112966
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top right] Entrance gate. [Top right] City wall front of Adams house. [Bottom left] House gate of Adams house. [Bottom center] South city gate. [Bottom right] Edward Adams, Fusan, 1897.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams family--Homes and haunts., Adams, Edward, 1895-1965.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea., Dwellings--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)--Buildings, structures, etc., Pusan (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112960
Title:
Photo Album of Peking, circa 1898.
Creator:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916. (photographer)
Subject names:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916., Killie, Louise Scott, b. 1856., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shantung Province., Missionaries--China., Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901., Shantung Province (China)--History., Beijing (China)--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:34427
Title:
Photograph of West Persia Mission members, ca. 1890-1900.
Description:
Photograph of West Persia Mission members, ca. 1890-1900.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran., Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:33380
Title:
Big Brother doesn't mind carrying small Brother on his back.
Description:
Big Brother doesn't mind carrying small Brother on his back \u2026
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Japan Mission.
Geographic subjects:
Japan--History--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8853
Title:
L.C. Vass and Mr. and Mrs. Crowley.
Description:
L.C. Vass and Mr. and Mrs. Crowley [seated with birds].
Subject names:
Vass family--Archives., Vass, Lachlan Cumming, 1872-1962.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century., Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7368
Title:
Matadi.
Description:
Matadi.
Subject names:
Vass family--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7266
Title:
Royal Korean Hospital.
Description:
Royal Korean Hospital.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Chejungwŏn (Korea)
Topics:
Hospitals--Korea--Seoul--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6958
Title:
Silas F. Johnson and family on furlough.
Description:
Dr. SF Johnson & family. Mary & Lars First furlough.
Subject names:
Johnson, Silas Franklin, 1865-1936--Archives., Johnson, Mary Hays., Johnson, Mary Hays., Johnson, Silas Franklin, 1865-1936., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Africa, West., Children of missionaries--Africa, West., Women missionaries--Africa, West., Missionaries--Leaves and furloughs.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5041
Title:
China missionaries in garden.
Description:
Garden in Palace Grounds, Peking.
Subject names:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916., Killie, Louise Scott, 1856-, Killie family--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--China--Beijing., Women missionaries--China--Beijing., Missions--China--Beijing., Palaces--China--Beijing.
Geographic subjects:
Beijing (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4917
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Page 12.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1797
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Pages 10 and 11.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1796
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Pages 8 and 9.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1795
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Pages 6 and 7.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1686
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Pages 4 and 5.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1685
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Pages 2 and 3.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1683
Title:
El Colegio Americano.
Description:
El Colegio Americano (Brochure for El Colegio Americano). Page 1.
Subject names:
Colegio Americano de Caracas.
Topics:
International schools--Venezuela--Caracas.
Geographic subjects:
Caracas (Venezuela)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1682

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