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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:
The Susan Reynolds Underhill African Art Collection.
Description:
Pamphlet for the Susan Reynolds Underhill African Art Collection at Lincoln University's Vail Library. The collection was gifted to the university by Rev. Irwin W. Underhill as a memorial to his wife who died in 1934 during her mission service in Cameroon.
Creator:
Vail Library (Lincoln University) (creator)
Subject names:
Underhill, Irvin Windfield, 1896-1982--Archives., Underhill, Irvin Windfield, 1896-1982., Underhill, Susan R. (Susan Reynolds), 1904-1934., Vail Library (Lincoln University)
Topics:
Art objects, African., Art, African., Antiquities--Collection and preservation., African American missionaries--Cameroon., Women missionaries--Cameroon., Missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Chester County (Pa.), Africa--Antiquities.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345219
Title:
William James Anderson Congo diary, 1921 and 1931.
Description:
Diary by William James Anderson, Presbyterian missionary in the Congo from 1919 through 1961. Contains photographs and drawings. Pages 60, 74-99, and 104-110 of volume are blank.
Creator:
Anderson, William James, 1897-1981. (author)
Subject names:
Anderson, William James, 1897-1981., Anderson, Dorothy.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309066
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:
Lakawn missionaries, 1892.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: The Chieng Mai and Lampoon friends about to start home from Lakawn after Presbytery and mission meetings, 1892. [p. 122]
Subject names:
McGilvary, Daniel, 1828-1911., Phraner, Stanley K., McKean, J. W. (James W.), Taylor, Dora Belle., McGilvary, Evander Bradley, 1864-1953., Peoples, Samuel Craig., Taylor, Hugh., Taylor, Ella., Briggs, William Albert., Briggs, Annabelle King., Irwin, Robert., Dodd, William Clifton, 1857-1919., Dodd, Isabelle R.
Topics:
Missionaries--Thailand., Women missionaries--Thailand., Missionaries--Laos., Women missionaries--Laos.
Geographic subjects:
Laos--Missions--19th century., Thailand--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:292424
Title:
The Alborz Foundation.
Description:
Pamphlet for the Alborz Foundation, an agency of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Alborz Foundation (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288895
Title:
Tehran Community School alumni bulletin.
Description:
Community School alumni bulletin, second edition, December 1977.
Creator:
Community School (Tehran, Iran) (creator), Peck, Pat. (editor)
Subject names:
Fisher, Commodore B. (Bascom), 1894---Archives., Community School (Tehran, Iran), Community School (Tehran, Iran)--Alumni and alumnae.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Community schools--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288849
Title:
The Future Begins Now at Damavand College in Iran.
Description:
Brochure for Damavand College, a women's college in Tehran, Iran.
Subject names:
Gray, Frances Mecca, 1910-2001., Damavand College (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Universities and colleges--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288827
Title:
The Seven Year Plan.
Description:
Poster highlighting the missionary education motto and the foreign mission study themes chosen for a seven year period. Published by the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions. (publisher)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183317
Title:
Glimpses of Korea and Korean life.
Description:
Uses illustrations to depict Koreans and Korean life. Created by Ella Reynolds.
Creator:
Groves, Ella Reynolds, 1902- (creator)
Subject names:
Groves, Ella Reynolds, 1902-
Topics:
Women missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Description and travel., Korea--Pictorial works.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153940
Title:
Beirut Seminary for Girls playground.
Description:
[From "Church at Home and Abroad" December 1894, p. 493.]
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Missions--Educational work--Lebanon--Beirut., Students--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147394
Title:
American Junior College for Women students, 1930-1931.
Description:
[From "Training Christian Womanhood in Bible Lands, American Junior College for Women, Beirut, Syria."]
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission--Archives., American Junior College for Women (Beirut, Lebanon)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Missions--Educational work--Lebanon--Beirut., Women's colleges--Lebanon--Beirut., Women college students--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147392
Title:
Eliza D. Everett.
Description:
[From Woman's Work for Woman, vol. 17, no. 9, April 1902, p. 106.]
Subject names:
Everett, Eliza--Portraits., Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Syria., Women missionaries--Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147391
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:
Hospital at Wei Hien, China.
Description:
Hospital at Wei Hien--Now Destroyed. (From Woman's Work for Woman, v. 15, no. 9, August 1900, p. 211.)
Subject names:
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
Topics:
Missions--China--Shandong Sheng., Missions, Medical--China--Shandong Sheng.
Geographic subjects:
Shandong Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122054
Title:
Madge Mateer with corner-stone for Shadyside Presbyterian Hospital, Wei Xian, Shandong Sheng, China.
Description:
Mrs. Mateer adds a new one to her many accomplishments. The Chinese trowel or 'Brick knife' is of a different pattern from its American cousin. (From Weihsien Views and Interviews, 1923-1924, Report of the Weihsien Station, Shantung Mission, China, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Image between pages 8 and 9.)
Subject names:
Mateer, Madge Dickson, 1860-1939., Shadyside Presbyterian Hospital (Wei Xian, Shandong Sheng, China), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Wei Hsien Mission Station (Shandong Sheng)
Topics:
Women missionaries--China--Shandong Sheng., Cornerstone laying--China--Shandong Sheng., Missions--China--Shandong Sheng., Missions, Medical--China--Shandong Sheng.
Geographic subjects:
Shandong Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122053
Title:
Laying the Corner-stone of the Shadyside Presbyterian Hospital, Wei Xian, Shandong Sheng, China.
Description:
Mrs. R.M. Mateer, M.D. who helped lay the foundations of the Weihsien Medical Work thirty-five years ago, laying the Corner-stone of the Shadyside Hospital. (From Weihsien Views and Interviews, 1923-1924, Report of the Weihsien Station, Shantung Mission, China, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Image between pages 8 and 9.)
Subject names:
Mateer, Madge Dickson, 1860-1939., Shadyside Presbyterian Hospital (Wei Xian, Shandong Sheng, China), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Wei Hsien Mission Station (Shandong Sheng)
Topics:
Missions, Medical--China--Shandong Sheng., Missions--China--Shandong Sheng., Cornerstone laying--China--Shandong Sheng.
Geographic subjects:
Wei Xian (Shandong Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122052
Title:
Madge Dickson Mateer.
Description:
Portrait of Mrs. Robert M. Mateer, M.D. [From cover of "Silver Series" by Mrs. John M. Coulter, Secretary for China, 1917.]
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest. (publisher)
Subject names:
Mateer, Madge Dickson, 1860-1939.
Topics:
Women missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116809
Title:
Weihsien High School for Girls, Graduating Class, 1913.
Description:
Weihsien High School for Girls, Graduating Class, 1913, from A Record of American Presbyterian Mission Work in Shantung Province, China, 1861-1913.
Subject names:
Wei Xian (Shandong Sheng, China), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Shantung Mission.
Topics:
Students--China--Shandong Sheng., Missions--Educational work--China--Shandong Sheng., Education--China--Shandong Sheng.
Geographic subjects:
Shandong Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116199

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