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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:
Doctor Cochran - Urmia Hospital.
Description:
Portrait of Dr. Cochran.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1855-1905.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries, Medical--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139154
Title:
Portrait of Mohammed Moussa Khan.
Description:
Mohammed Moussa Khan - "Crown Prince." (Son of Yacoob Khan)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Nobility--Iran., Muslim boys--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139139
Title:
Portrait of Mohammed Moussa Khan.
Description:
Mohammed Moussa Khan - "Crown Prince." (Son of Yacoob Khan)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Nobility--Iran., Muslim boys--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139135
Title:
Persian man and woman.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Muslim men--Iran., Muslim women--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139130
Title:
Persian woman.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Muslim women--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139092
Title:
Ida and Frederick G. Coan.
Description:
"Aunt Ida and Uncle Fred Coan."
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Coan, Frederick G. (Frederick Gaylord), 1859-1943., Coan, Ida Speer, 1861-1939.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries, Medical--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139090
Title:
Portrait of Dr. Perkins.
Description:
Dr. Perkins - first missionary to Urumia. [Justin Perkins?]
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Perkins, Justin, 1805-1869--Portraits.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139058
Title:
Portrait of Persian man.
Description:
Oosta Pera of Oroomiah.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Muslim men--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139056
Title:
Rev. Joseph L. Whiting.
Description:
Portrait of Joseph L. Whiting.
Creator:
Rice, T.J. (photographer)
Subject names:
Whiting, Joseph L.
Topics:
Missionaries--China--Beijing.
Geographic subjects:
Beijing (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138693
Title:
Korea beautiful.
Description:
A slide presentation depicting the country and people of Korea. From a children's lecture written by Rev. Archibald W. Campbell: "My Grandpa still wears the old style Korean hat - made of horsehair - and loves to smoke his pipe. You can see he is very proud."
Creator:
Campbell, Archibald, 1890-1977. (artist)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea., Men--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Pictorial works.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:136812
Title:
Korea beautiful.
Description:
A slide presentation depicting the country and people of Korea. From a children's lecture written by Rev. Archibald W. Campbell: "We went to see the missionary's baby on her first birthday and she had Korean clothes on that some one had given her for a present."
Creator:
Campbell, Archibald, 1890-1977. (artist)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Infants--Korea., Ethnic costume--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Pictorial works.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:136803
Title:
Portrait of Kamil Abdul Messiah al-Aietany.
Description:
"The setting of the crescent and the rising of the cross : or Kamil Abdul Messiah, a Syrian convert from Islam to Christianity" by the Rev. Henry Harris Jessup, page 3.
Subject names:
Kamil, Abdul Messiah el Aietany.
Topics:
Christian converts from Islam--Syria., Missions--Syria., Missions to Islam--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133241
Title:
Portrait of Henry Harris Jessup, D.D.
Description:
Henry H. Jessup. Taken when Moderator of the General Assembly.
Subject names:
Jessup, Henry Harris, 1832-1910.
Topics:
Missionaries--Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133240
Title:
Portrait of Henry Harris Jessup, D.D.
Subject names:
Jessup, Henry Harris, 1832-1910.
Topics:
Missionaries--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133239
Title:
Bernice Hunting.
Description:
Portrait of Bernice Hunting, missionary to Syria.
Subject names:
Hunting, Bernice, 1867-1920.
Topics:
Women missionaries--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133235
Title:
Rev. James Edward Adams.
Description:
Portrait of James Edward Adams.
Subject names:
Adams, James Edward, 1867-1929.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116811
Title:
Rev. William M. Baird.
Description:
Portrait of William M. Baird.
Subject names:
Baird, William Martyn, 1897-
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116810
Title:
Dr. Mary H. Fulton and two women.
Description:
Text transcribed from original caption: Dr. Mary H. Fulton and her two hospital Bible-women- one of whom is blind. - has been with Dr. F. eleven years. Canton, China.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. South China Mission., Fulton, Mary H., 1854-1927., Hackett Medical College for Women (Guangzhou, China)
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--China--20th century., Missions, Medical--China--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Guangzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116364
Title:
Dr. Mary H. Fulton and two women.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Dr. Mary H. Fulton and her two hospital Bible-women- one of whom is blind. - has been with Dr. F. eleven years. Canton, China.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. South China Mission., Fulton, Mary H., 1854-1927., Fulton, Mary H., 1854-1927., Hackett Medical College for Women (Guangzhou, China)
Topics:
Missions, Medical--China--Guangzhou--20th century., Missionaries, Medical--China--Guangzhou--20th century., Women missionaries--China--Guangzhou.
Geographic subjects:
Guangzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116363
Title:
Soong Sil College, ca. 1964.
Description:
President's Row in Soong Sil President's Office. L to R: Rev. William M. Baird, Prof. Ralph O. Reiner, Rev. Samuel A. Moffett, Prof. George S. McCune. Pictures sent by Harold Voelker showing Soong Sil College reestablished in Seoul after Liberation. Also views of Seoul about same time - rebuilt after Communist invasion and subsequent fighting 1952-55.
Subject names:
Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Reiner, Ralph O., Moffett, Samuel Austin, 1864-1939--Portraits., McCune, George S.--Portraits., Sungsil Taehak (Seoul, Korea), Baird family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
College presidents--Korea (South)--Seoul., Christian universities and colleges--Korea (South)--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115926

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