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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:
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:
Samuel Lapsley.
Subject names:
Lapsley, Samuel N. (Samuel Norvell), 1866-1892--Portraits., Lapsley, Samuel N. (Samuel Norvell), 1866-1892.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286573
Title:
Samuel Lapsley's gravestone.
Description:
Gravestone of Samuel Lapsley, missionary of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Subject names:
Vass family--Archives., Lapsley, Samuel N. (Samuel Norvell), 1866-1892., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century., Burial--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286571
Title:
Map of Siam and Laos.
Creator:
Theo. Leonhardt & Son. (printer), Cheek, Marion A. (designer)
Topics:
Maps--Siam., Maps--Laos.
Geographic subjects:
Siam--Description and travel., Laos--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177401
Title:
Hamlin Memorial Sanatorium staff.
Description:
Nurse Afifa Saba and Dr. Naami Nucho (seated) with Hamlin Memorial Sanatorium staff.
Creator:
Syria Mission of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission.
Topics:
Missions, Medical--Syria., Missionaries, Medical--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153451
Title:
Arthur Garner Welbon's seminary graduation photo, 1900.
Description:
Arthur Garner Welbon (1866-1928). Fourth son of Thomas and Mary Esther. Picture taken for his graduation from San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1900. [From p. 24 of "Arthur goes to Korea : the early life of Arthur Garner Welbon and his first years as a missionary to Korea, 1900-1902" by Priscilla Welbon Ewy.]
Creator:
Ewy, Priscilla Welbon, 1937- (author)
Subject names:
Welbon, Arthur Garner, 1866-1928--Portraits., San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Portraits., Seminarians--California--San Francisco.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153019
Title:
Korea Mission map.
Description:
[From page 190 of "Reports of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America."]
Creator:
Bridgman, E. C. (publisher)
Topics:
Missions--Korea--Maps.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150480
Title:
Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D.D.
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149008
Title:
President Martin and the faculty of the Chinese Imperial University.
Description:
[Original image from "The Lore of Cathay," published by Fleming H. Revell Co. Reprinted in "Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D.D., of China" by the Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D., L.L.D.]
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916.
Topics:
Missionaries--China., Missions--Educational work--China., Universities and colleges--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149007
Title:
Dr. W. A. P. Martin and some of his students.
Description:
[Original image from "The Lore of Cathay," published by Fleming H. Revell Co. Reprinted in "Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D.D., of China" by the Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D., L.L.D.]
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916.
Topics:
Missionaries--China., Missions--Educational work--China., Students--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149005
Title:
Dr. William Alexander Parsons Martin.
Description:
Dr. W. A. P. Martin. For forty years President of the Chinese Imperial University and Author of "A Cycle of Cathay" and "The Lore of Cathay," standard books on China. World's Work. Jan. 1906.
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149003
Title:
Map of Syrian missions.
Description:
[From "Bible work in Bible lands ; or, Events in the history of the Syria mission / by Isaac Bird ; fully illustrated."]
Creator:
Bird, Isaac, 1793-1876. (author)
Topics:
Missions--Syria--Maps.
Geographic subjects:
Syria--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147405
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:
Rev. Richard H. and Effie Sidebotham.
Description:
Rev. Richard H. and Mrs. Sidebotham. [From "Michigan Presbyterian", Detroit, Mich., Nov. 2, 1899.]
Subject names:
Sidebotham, Richard H., 1874-1908--Portraits., Sidebotham, Effie--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Portraits., Women missionaries--Korea--Portraits.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146319
Title:
Portrait of Peter Parker.
Description:
[From "Pioneer Missionaries of the Church," by C.C. Creegan, p. 138.]
Subject names:
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146312
Title:
Card with Theme Song and photo of Chen River.
Description:
Greeting card from Edith Millican photo album.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Boone, Muriel, 1893-
Topics:
Missionaries--China--Chenzhou., Presbyterian Church--Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:136794
Title:
Card with Theme Song and photo of Chen River
Description:
Greeting card from Edith Millican photo album.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Boone, Muriel, 1893-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China--Chenzhou.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133759
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

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