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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:
Culbertson audio letter to Cogswell, 1963, tape two, side two.
Description:
Dr. M.C. Culbertson's notes on medical mission needs in Korea.
Creator:
Culbertson, M.C. (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., Cogswell, James A.
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138689
Title:
Culbertson audio letter to Cogswell, 1963, tape two, side one.
Description:
Dr. M.C. Culbertson's notes on medical mission needs in Korea.
Creator:
Culbertson, M.C. (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., Cogswell, James A.
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138688
Title:
Culbertson audio letter to Cogswell, 1963.
Description:
Dr. M.C. Culbertson's notes on medical mission needs in Korea.
Creator:
Culbertson, M.C. (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., Cogswell, James A.
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138687
Title:
Culbertson audio letter to Cogswell, 1963, tape one, side two.
Description:
Dr. M.C. Culbertson's notes on medical mission needs in Korea.
Creator:
Culbertson, M.C. (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., Cogswell, James A.
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138686
Title:
Culbertson audio letter to Cogswell, 1963, tape one, side one.
Description:
Dr. M.C. Culbertson's notes on medical mission needs in Korea.
Creator:
Culbertson, M.C. (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., Cogswell, James A.
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138685
Title:
Black Presbyterian Leadership Conference, Board of World Missions, 1970.
Description:
Audio of Board of World Missions meeting, April 15, 1970, with Black Presbyterian Leadership Conference representatives in attendance.
Subject names:
National Black Presbyterian Caucus., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138684
Title:
Voices from Japan, 1960s.
Description:
Promotional phonograph flexidisc featuring students of Shikoku Christian College (Zentsuji, Japan), produced by TRAV for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of Women's Work.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. TRAV., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of Women's Work., Shikoku Gakuin Daigaku.
Topics:
Missions--Japan
Geographic subjects:
Zentsūji-shi (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138683
Title:
The Church and mission in Khuzistan, 1960.
Description:
Audioletter from Frank and Jean Woodward to the people of Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Harrisburg, Pa.), 1960.
Creator:
Woodward, Frank Thomas, 1921-1970. (speaker)
Subject names:
Woodward, Jean Louise, 1921-, Smith, Gene Michael, 1922-
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Khūzistān.
Geographic subjects:
Khūzistān (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133229
Title:
Organization service of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, Elat, 1957.
Description:
Only known recording of this event. Much of the ceremony is in Bulu. Includes an address by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake in English translated in Bulu by Dr. A.I. Good. Side 2 contains Bulu folklore and a message from Dr. H.L. Weber. Speeches, sermons, and songs in Bulu, French, and English.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975. (speaker)
Subject names:
Weber, Hymen Lawrence, 1873-1962., Eglise presbyterienne camerounaise.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116539
Title:
Buck Hill Falls mission consultation, after 1957.
Description:
Two-sided mono recording. Buck Hill Falls, Pa. consultation on foreign missions, including Chile, Brazil, Cameroon, Syria, Lebanon, after 1957.
Creator:
Anderson, L. K. (Llewellyn Kennedy), 1900-1980.
Topics:
Missions--Chile., Missions--Cameroon., Missions--Lebanon., Missions--Africa., Missions--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Chile., Syria., Africa., Lebanon., Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116538
Title:
Richard C. and Anna Mae Rowe report from Cameroon, 1960.
Description:
Includes Bulu men singing Christmas carols and interview with Pastor Biso of Elat.
Creator:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929- (speaker)
Subject names:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929-, Rowe, Anna Mae, 1933-
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon., Bulu (African people), Missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116537
Title:
Dorothy Rankin on trip to Guraferda, Ethiopia, 1973.
Creator:
Rankin, Dorothy L., 1919-1995. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ethiopia Mission., Rankin, Dorothy L., 1919-1995--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Ethiopia--20th century., Missions--Educational work--Ethiopia--20th century., Women missionaries--Ethiopia--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Ethiopia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116534
Title:
Margaretta B. Wells interview, about 1967.
Description:
Audio tape interview of Margaretta B. Wells regarding the family’s December 1941 journey of escape from Thailand, arrival in the United States, and the war years in Washington D.C., circa 1967.
Creator:
Wells, Margaretta B. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Thailand Mission., Wells, Margaretta B.--Archives., Wells, Kenneth Elmer, 1896-1981--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Thailand--History--20th century., Missionaries--Thailand--History--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand., Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116528
Title:
The Church in independent Africa today, about 1968.
Description:
Produced by Gunter Kaiser for Zambia Broadcasting Services. Includes hymns, worship in English, Bemba, Lozi, and Tonga. Includes speech by Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia.
Creator:
Kaunda, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1924- (speaker)
Subject names:
Kaunda, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1924-, Kaiser, Günter.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Africa--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Africa--Religion.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116525
Title:
Communist prison life in China, after 1953.
Description:
A radio interview with Dr. John David Hayes, former prisoner of war, recorded between 1953-1957 at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. Dr. Hayes was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in China. He was imprisoned, 1951-1952.
Creator:
Hayes, John David, 1888-1957. (interviewee)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Communism--China., Prisoners of war--United States., Prisoners of war--China., Political prisoners--China., Communism and Christianity--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116515
Title:
Kanyinda Isaac speech, about 1950.
Description:
Sermon given in Tshiluba (also Chiluba, Luba-Katanga) by Pastor Kanyinda Isaac at Montreat, N.C., with Carroll R. Stegall interpreting, circa 1950.
Creator:
Isaac, Kanyinda. (speaker), Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965. (speaker)
Subject names:
American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116504
Title:
Interview of William P. Lytle by Lois Boyd and R.D. Brackenridge.
Description:
Rev. William P. Lytle was moderator of the 1978 United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly, San Diego, California; pastor of Madison Square United Presbyterian Church in San Antonio; and served on the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations as chair of the Frontier Internship Committee, chair of the Administrative Commission on Cuba, personnel development counselor for missionaries serving in Latin America, and inter-church negotiator with Chile and Mexico.
Creator:
Lytle, William Pierce, 1923- (interviewee), Boyd, Lois A. (interviewer), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Lytle, William Pierce, 1923-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Texas)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116485
Title:
Frances Zoeckler interview, 1987 at Women’s Association of St. Andrew PC Albuquerque, NM.
Description:
Recording of a talk given by Dr. Frances Louise Zoeckler, missionary to Iran. Recorded by Carolyn Atkins at the meeting of the Women's Association of the St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on November 17, 1987.
Creator:
Zoeckler, Frances Louise, 1919- (interviewee), Atkins, Carolyn. (recordist)
Subject names:
Westminster Hospital (Kermānshāh, Iran), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Zoeckler, Frances Louise, 1919-, Zoeckler, Mary Dayton Allen, 1884-1954., Zoeckler, George Frederick, 1884-1948., Zoeckler family.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran., Missions--Iran--Agricultural work., Evangelistic work--Iran., Missions, Medical--Iran., Missions--Iran Educational work.
Geographic subjects:
Hamadān (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116481
Title:
Lynda Carver interviewed by Alfreda Hinn, May 19, 1980.
Creator:
Carver, Lynda Marie, 1903-1994. (interviewee), Hinn, Cora Alfreda Pence, 1908-1982. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Carver, Lynda Marie, 1903-1994.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tehran, Missions--Educational work--Iraq--Baghdad.
Geographic subjects:
Baghdad (Iraq)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116468
Title:
Margaretta B. Wells interview, March 24, 1983.
Description:
Audio cassette interview of Margaretta B. Wells regarding the Wellses’ October 1927 arrival in Bangkok; missionary colleagues and Thai friends; events; and Thai people, culture, and religion, undated. Second side blank.
Creator:
Wells, Margaretta B. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Wells, Margaretta B.--Archives., Wells, Kenneth Elmer, 1896-1981--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Thailand--History--20th century., Missions--Thailand--History--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Bangkok (Thailand)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116458

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