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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:
Pyongyang Mission picture book, ca. 1901.
Description:
This book of pictures of early Pyonyang mission work was donated by the children of Graham Lee. Pictures in the booklet show things as of 1901 or earlier.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Baird family--Archives., Lee, Graham.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang.
Geographic subjects:
P'yŏngyang (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116000
Title:
"Down the Yalu" 1926.
Description:
"Down the Yalu" (personal travel account), 1926
Creator:
Baird, Richard H. (Richard Hamilton), 1898-1995. (author)
Subject names:
Baird family--Archives., Baird, William Martyn, 1897-.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaires--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Yalu River (China and Korea)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115676
Title:
Presbytery of Cuba photograph album, 1949.
Description:
Photograph album commemorating the first fifty years of mission work in Cuba; includes images of missionaries, local congregations, and Westminster Fellowship. Leather cover bears seal of the Presbytery.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Cuba. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Cuba., Westminster Fellowship.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cuba--20th century., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cuba--20th century., Presbyterians--Cuba--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Cuba.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112253
Title:
Observation mission to United States and Europe letters and cartes de visite, 1871.
Subject names:
Thompson, David D., 1835-1915.
Topics:
Missionaries--Japan., Missions--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:90533
Title:
Mary Parke Thompson inserts from diary, 1896-1900.
Description:
Mary Parke Thompson inserts from diary, 1896-1900, including photograph and writings.
Creator:
Thompson, Mary Calhoun Parke, 1841-1927. (author)
Subject names:
Thompson, Mary Calhoun Parke, 1841-1927--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Japan., Missionaries--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:81097
Title:
Kenneth E. Wells family photo album.
Description:
Album documenting Kenneth E. Wells’s April 1935 journey to Chiang Rung (Kiulungkiang) and Keng Tung; also family, missionary colleagues, and friends, circa 1930-circa 1936.
Creator:
Wells, Kenneth Elmer, 1896-1981. (creator)
Subject names:
Wells, Kenneth Elmer, 1896-1981--Archives., Wells, Margaretta B., 1902-1999--Archives., Wells family.
Topics:
Missionaries--Thailand.
Geographic subjects:
Jinghong., Keng Tung (Burma)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:79724
Title:
Photo Album of Peking, circa 1898.
Creator:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916. (photographer)
Subject names:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916., Killie, Louise Scott, b. 1856., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shantung Province., Missionaries--China., Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901., Shantung Province (China)--History., Beijing (China)--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:34427
Title:
50 Views of Siege of Peking, 1900.
Description:
Fifty views in the set, nine of them taken at the Methodist Compound, and forty-nine in the British, Russian, and American Legations, the Hanlin Yuan, the Mongol Market, and along the Wall. Included in this number are the twenty-six large views taken by request of the British Minister and the General Committee of Public Comfort of the Siege.
Creator:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916. (photographer)
Subject names:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916., Killie, Louise Scott, b. 1856., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shantung Province., Missionaries--China., Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901., Shantung Province (China)--History., Beijing (China)--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:34313
Title:
Photo Album, circa 1893-1900.
Creator:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916. (photographer)
Subject names:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916., Killie, Louise Scott, b. 1856., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shantung Province., Missionaries--China., Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901., Shantung Province (China)--History., Beijing (China)--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:34179
Title:
You are Thumbody Special.
Description:
"Presented to Rev. Benjamin Weir, May 20, 1987, from the children of John Knox Presbyterian Church. These are the thumb prints of the small children to let you know you are "thumbody" special."
Subject names:
Weir, Ben, 1923-2016.
Topics:
Missionaries--Lebanon--20th century., Missions--Lebanon--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Lebanon--Missionaries--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10151
Title:
Happy homecoming.
Description:
Mounted newspaper article from the San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, November 3, 1985. "Happy homecoming: The Rev. Ben Weir, left, got a warm welcome from his friend Aahmes Overton, pastor of Hayward Presbyterian Church, as he arrived yesterday at San Francisco International Airport. Weir, who was kidnapped by Beirut terrorists and held hostage for 16 months, told his Bay Area well-wishers that he felt "like Rip Van Winkle come home."
Creator:
San Francisco Examiner. (publisher), Raddatz, Katy. (photographer)
Subject names:
Weir, Ben, 1923-2016., Overton, Aahmes E., 1941-
Topics:
Missionaries--Lebanon--Beirut--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10149
Title:
Africa in Picture.
Description:
Dr. Kellersberger's Africa album - Front cover embossed, AFRICA IN PICTURE / A.P.C.M. BIBANGA / E.R.K., 1913-1943, 1970 and undated, bulk 1920s-1940. Contains over 2,000 items, mostly photographs. The album includes a topical index, an introductory note by Kellersberger, and multiple inscriptions. It primarily spans the years from the 1920s to 1940.
Creator:
Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966. (creator)
Subject names:
Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966.
Topics:
African trypanosomiasis., Leprosy., Leprosy Hospitals--Congo (Democratic Republic), Tropical medicine--Congo (Democratic Republic), African trypanosomiasis., Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), African trypanosomiasis., Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:9576
Title:
American Mission in Egypt map.
Description:
American Mission in Egypt leaflet map, after 1948.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church of North America. Egypt Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Egypt--20th century--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1798

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