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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:
Growing Up in Iran.
Description:
Elder Family reunion photograph album and history, "Growing Up In Iran." Reminiscences of five daughters and sons of Ruth (Roche) and John Elder, missionaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Recorded by Jack Tiffany during an Elder-family reunion at Conference Point Center in Williams Bay on the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin August 2 and 3, 2010. Page 28 of document is missing.
Creator:
Tiffany, Jack. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Elder family--Archives., Elder family., Elder, John, 1894-1981., Elder, Ruth Roche, 1899-1992., Leake, Alice Elder., Hilton, Miriam Elder., Elder, Joseph., Elder, David., Lund, Louise Elder.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293237
Title:
Alborz to Iranzamin.
Description:
Essay by J. Richard Irvine, educator and missionary to Iran. Also features a letter addressed to Frederick Heuser of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Creator:
Irvine, John Richard. (author), Heuser, Frederick J. (addressee)
Subject names:
Irvine, John Richard., Community School (Tehran, Iran), Dabīristān-i Alburz., Iranzamin School (Tajrīsh, Iran), Irvine, Mary Ann.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Missions--Educational work--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288839
Title:
Theodore Cuyler Young.
Subject names:
Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler), 1900-1976., Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler), 1900-1976--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288821
Title:
Theodore Cuyler Young.
Subject names:
Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler), 1900-1976., Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler), 1900-1976--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288820
Title:
Theodore Cuyler Young.
Subject names:
Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler), 1900-1976., Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler), 1900-1976--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288819
Title:
J. Richard Irvine.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations. (publisher)
Subject names:
Irvine, John Richard., Irvine, John Richard--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288818
Title:
J. Richard Irvine.
Subject names:
Irvine, John Richard.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288817
Title:
J. Richard Irvine and family.
Creator:
Artistic Photography (Princeton, N.J.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Irvine, John Richard., Irvine, Mary Ann.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288816
Title:
William Miller and Jane Doolittle.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: William (Bill) Miller. Jane Doolittle.
Subject names:
Miller, William McElwee., Doolittle, Jane, 1899-, Irwin family--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288811
Title:
Women traveling in Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Chavadar! May 1918 Mrs. [illegible], Mrs. Eldrid, Monica. Inside Chavadar. Women sometimes travelled this way.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Vehicles--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280771
Title:
Iran Mission Meeting, 1957.
Description:
Participants identified by Mehdi Abhari in 2017.
Creator:
Abhari, Mehdi. (author)
Subject names:
Miller, William McElwee, 1892-1993., Community School (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180818
Title:
Iran Mission Meeting, 1957.
Subject names:
Miller, William McElwee, 1892-1993., Community School (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180817
Title:
Interview of Joseph P. Cochran by Margaret Deck.
Creator:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1892- (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1892-
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146314
Title:
Boat on Lake Urmia, Iran.
Description:
The Muzafferia - on which we crossed Lake Urumia. - the pier on E. side of lake fr. wh. our bedding was tumbled into the water.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Boats and boating--Iran--Urmia, Lake.
Geographic subjects:
Urmia, Lake (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140101
Title:
Turkey and Iran photo album.
Description:
Photograph album depicting travels through Turkey and Iran, including mountain, village, and street scenes; Nestorians; Kurds; and medical and education mission work in Iran.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Syriac Christians--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel., Turkey--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139205
Title:
Boat on Lake Urmia, Iran.
Description:
The Muzafferia - on which we crossed Lake Urumia. - the pier on E. side of lake fr. wh. our bedding was tumbled into the water.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Boats and boating--Iran--Urmia, Lake.
Geographic subjects:
Urmia, Lake (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139175
Title:
Boat on Lake Urmia, Iran.
Description:
The Muzafferia - on which we crossed Lake Urumia. - the pier on E. side of lake fr. wh. our bedding was tumbled into the water.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Boats and boating--Iran--Urmia, Lake.
Geographic subjects:
Urmia, Lake (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139164
Title:
The Shedd family arriving to mission work, 1890s.
Description:
John Haskell Shedd in early 1890s. Mr. and Mrs. Shedd arriving in mission premises after last furlough.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Shedd, John Haskell, 1833-1895., Shedd, Sarah Jane Dawes, 1836-1921.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139122
Title:
Missionary families, Iran.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139117
Title:
Coan family in Iran.
Description:
Frederick and Ida Coan and their children seated on steps.
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--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139087

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