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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 Peiho and Peking.
Description:
A history of the Peking (Beijing) Mission. Written by W.A.P. Martin, a Presbyterian missionary to China.
Creator:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916. (author)
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Peking Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Peking Mission--History.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Beijing., Missionaries--China--Beijing.
Geographic subjects:
Beijing (China), Beijing (China)--Missions--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344702
Title:
North and South of the Equator.
Description:
Autobiography of Addison Miller Alexander, a Presbyterian missionary to South America.
Creator:
Alexander, Addison Miller, 1902- (author)
Subject names:
Alexander, Addison Miller, 1902-, Alexander, Addison Miller, 1902---Biography.
Topics:
Missionaries--Colombia., Missionaries--Chile., Missions--Educational work--Colombia., Missions--Educational work--Chile.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344383
Title:
Developing Damavand College.
Description:
Fundraising brochure for Damavand College, a women's college in Tehran, Iran.
Creator:
Damavand College (Tehran, Iran) (creator)
Subject names:
Thompson, Mary Christine, 1913---Archives., 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:340406
Title:
Rural Missions Cooperating Committee, 1933-1939.
Description:
Includes minutes and reports of the Rural Missions Cooperating Committee, a special committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America's Committee of Reference and Counsel.
Creator:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Committee of Reference and Counsel. (creator), Moss, Leslie Bates, 1889- (author)
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives., Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Committee of Reference and Counsel.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Rural missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340332
Title:
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Nov. 1944-Sept. 1948.
Description:
Includes correspondence and a memorandum.
Creator:
Bell, Enoch F. (author), Goodsell, Fred Field, 1880-1976. (author)
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340326
Title:
United Nations Day program, 1956.
Description:
Tehran Community School's program for United Nations Day, October 24, 1956.
Creator:
Community School (Tehran, Iran) (creator)
Subject names:
Rankin, Joan, 1923-2006--Archives., Community School (Tehran, Iran), United Nations--Anniversaries, etc.
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:340220
Title:
Gertrude Roe Bayless memoir, 1923-1950.
Description:
Gertrude Roe Bayless' typed memoir of her years as a missionary and music teacher in China from 1923 through 1950.
Creator:
Bayless, Gertrude Roe, 1890- (author)
Subject names:
Bayless, Gertrude Roe, 1890---Archives., Bayless, Gertrude Roe, 1890-, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Hunan Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--20th century., Women missionaries--China--20th century., Missionaries--China--20th century., Church musicians--China., Music teachers--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340163
Title:
Page of Hebrew text from collection of James and Abigail Basset.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: From the collection of James and Abigail Bassett - pioneer missionaries in Tehran under the Presbyterian Board.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Bassett, James, 1834-1906., Bassett, Abigail.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Bible. Leviticus.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340149
Title:
Page of Hebrew text from collection of James and Abigail Basset.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: From the collection of James and Abigail Bassett - pioneer missionaries in Tehran under the Presbyterian Board.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Bassett, James, 1834-1906., Bassett, Abigail.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Bible. Leviticus.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339898
Title:
Henry William Rankin notebook on Divie Bethune McCartee.
Description:
Volume 2 of Henry William Rankin's notebooks on Divie Bethune McCartee, a 19th century missionary to China and Japan.
Creator:
Rankin, Henry William, 1851-1937. (author)
Subject names:
Rankin family--Archives., McCartee, Divie Bethune, 1820-1900.
Topics:
Missionaries--China--19th century., Missions--China--19th century., Missionaries--Japan--19th century., Missions--Japan--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Japan--Missions., China--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309256
Title:
Henry William Rankin notebook on Divie Bethune McCartee.
Description:
Volume 1 of Henry William Rankin's notebooks on Divie Bethune McCartee, a 19th century missionary to China and Japan. Pages 1, 4-5, 8-11, 14-19, 24-31, 44-53, 56-63, 66-123, and 128-133 of volume are blank.
Creator:
Rankin, Henry William, 1851-1937. (author)
Subject names:
Rankin family--Archives., McCartee, Divie Bethune, 1820-1900.
Topics:
Missionaries--China--19th century., Missions--China--19th century., Missionaries--Japan--19th century., Missions--Japan--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Japan--Missions., China--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309209
Title:
William James Anderson Congo diary, 1921 and 1931.
Description:
Transcript of a diary by William James Anderson, Presbyterian missionary in the Congo from 1919 through 1961. Transcribed by Anderson's grandson, J. David Anderson.
Creator:
Anderson, William James, 1897-1981. (author), Anderson, J. David. (transcriber)
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:309165
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:
Moslem editors say
Description:
Compiled by Herrick B. Young, Professor of Literature at Alborz College of Teheran.
Creator:
Young, Herrick B. (Herrick Black), 1904- (compiler)
Topics:
Islamic press., Muslims., Public opinion--Middle East.
Geographic subjects:
Iran., Syria., Palestine., Turkey., Egypt.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:301543
Title:
Assyrian and National Church History: History of Iran: Rise of Islam.
Description:
Volume 2 of Isaac Moorhatch's two-volume manuscript work "Assyrian and National Church History: History of Iran: Rise of Islam." The work is written in Assyrian, and each volume includes a table of contents. The date of the manuscript is not known, but internal evidence suggests that it was finished in 1938.
Creator:
Moorhatch, Isaac B., 1880-1951 (author)
Topics:
Islam--Iran--History., Assyrians--History
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:301437
Title:
Assyrian and National Church History: History of Iran: Rise of Islam.
Description:
Volume 1 of Isaac Moorhatch's two-volume manuscript work "Assyrian and National Church History: History of Iran: Rise of Islam." The work is written in Assyrian, and each volume includes a table of contents. The date of the manuscript is not known, but internal evidence suggests that it was finished in 1938. Pages 530-533 and 620-623 of the manuscript are blank.
Creator:
Moorhatch, Isaac B., 1880-1951 (author)
Topics:
Islam--Iran--History., Assyrians--History
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300810
Title:
Emma Bayles McAuley correspondence, 1841-1866.
Description:
Transcript of correspondence addressed to her sister-in-law, Margaret Bayles. Written during her time as a missionary in North Central India. Also includes biographical information about Emma Bayles McAuley and her family.
Creator:
McAuley, Emma Bayles, 1815-1891. (author), Bayles, Margaret. (addressee), Cook, Lewis D. (transcriber)
Subject names:
McAuley, Emma Bayles, 1815-1891--Archives., McAuley, Emma Bayles, 1815-1891., Bayles, Margaret., McAuley, William H. (William Hall), d. 1885.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Fatehgarh., Missionaries--India--Fatehgarh., Women missionaries--India--Fatehgarh.
Geographic subjects:
Fatehgarh (India)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294423
Title:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Congo meeting at Luebo Mission, March 19, 1968.
Description:
Moderator David Miller's copy.
Creator:
Église presbyterienne au Congo. (creator)
Subject names:
Église presbyterienne au Congo., Miller, David V. (David Vines), 1926-2019., Miller, David V. (David Vines), 1926-2019--Archives., Miller, Polly Jean, 1927---Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293474
Title:
Letters between David V. Miller and Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1979.
Description:
Letters (January 26 and February 7, 1979) discussing Dave's trip to South Africa.
Creator:
Miller, David V. (David Vines), 1926-2019. (author), Tutu, Desmond. (author)
Subject names:
Tutu, Desmond., Miller, David V. (David Vines), 1926-2019., Miller, David V. (David Vines), 1926-2019--Archives., Miller, Polly Jean, 1927---Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Africa, Southern--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
South Africa.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293470
Title:
The Presbyterian Church of Africa Certificate of Confirmation.
Description:
Blank confirmation certificate.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church of Africa. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church of Africa., Miller, David V. (David Vines), 1926-2019--Archives., Miller, Polly Jean, 1927---Archives.
Topics:
Confirmation--Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293467

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