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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:
Turkish officers and soldiers with cannon.
Description:
Cannon with Turkish officers and soldiers. Cannon was taken by Persians on expedition against Kurds which occasioned Turkish interference in force. This cannon was left behind by Persians and taken by the Turks. 1907. W. A. Shedd, Urumia, Persia.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Turkic peoples--Iran--Urūmīyah., Soldiers--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139183
Title:
Persian man and woman.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Muslim men--Iran., Muslim women--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139182
Title:
Doctor Cochran - Urmia Hospital.
Description:
Dr. Cochran sitting at table with Persian men.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1855-1905.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries, Medical--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139181
Title:
Prominent men of Urmia, Iran.
Description:
Mullahs and other prominent men of Urumia after battle of Feb. 22, 1918 placed themselves and the city under protection.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., War and society--Iran--Urūmīyah., Muslim men--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139180
Title:
Persian Nobleman.
Description:
Persian nobleman, husband of Muluk Khanem.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Nobility--Iran., Pipe smoking--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139179
Title:
Persian woman in street dress, Tehran, Iran.
Description:
"(Tehran) Mohammedan woman in street costume with veil slightly raised."
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tehran., Muslim women--Iran--Tehran., Islamic clothing and dress--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139178
Title:
Shedd family home.
Description:
The new house for the Labarees.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Shedd family--Homes and haunts., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Dwellings--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139177
Title:
Portrait of Iran missionary, 1911.
Description:
A ma chére Mrs. Shedd se souvenir affectuous, L Kutter-Barden. Auvernier le 22 mars 1911. (To my dear Mrs. Shedd to remember affectionately...)
Creator:
Rossi-Vogt. (photographer)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139176
Title:
Boat on Lake Urmia, Iran.
Description:
The Muzafferia - on which we crossed Lake Urumia. - the pier on E. side of lake fr. wh. our bedding was tumbled into the water.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Boats and boating--Iran--Urmia, Lake.
Geographic subjects:
Urmia, Lake (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139175
Title:
Turco-Persian Boundary Commission.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Administrative agencies--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Boundaries--Turkey., Turkey--Boundaries--Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139174
Title:
Doctor Cochran - Urmia Hospital.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1855-1905.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries, Medical--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139173
Title:
Jews at Feast of Tabernacles.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Jews--Iran., Jewish children--Iran., Sukkot--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139172
Title:
Portrait of man, Iran.
Description:
Solomon brother of Mar Shimun. [Photo may actually be of Ishai d'Mar Shimun.]
Creator:
Mirzojeff, Lazar. (photographer)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Men--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139171
Title:
Muḥarram in Tabriz, Iran.
Description:
Tabriz at Moharem (mourning of death of Ali - sons of Mohamed) - flagellation.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Fasts and feasts--Islam., Tenth of Muḥarram--Iran--Tabrīz., Flagellation--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139170
Title:
Muḥarram in Tabriz, Iran.
Description:
Tabriz at Moharem (mourning of death of Ali - sons of Mohamed) - flagellation.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Fasts and feasts--Islam., Tenth of Muḥarram--Iran--Tabrīz., Flagellation--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139169
Title:
Miss McConaghy with children in Iran.
Description:
Dec. 1900. Miss [Bertha] McConaghy and the children on front steps of [Fiske] Seminary. Louise Wilbur went to Persia to teach these children - in a little family school - in the house of one of the missionaries.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Fiske Seminary (Urūmīyah, Iran), Cochrin, Bertha McConaghy.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Iran--Urūmīyah., Women missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Iranian students--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139168
Title:
Doctor Cochran - Urmia Hospital.
Description:
Portrait of Dr. Cochran.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1855-1905.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries, Medical--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139167
Title:
Native teachers of Fiske Seminary, Urmia, Iran.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Fiske Seminary (Urūmīyah, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Iran--Urūmīyah., Women seminarians--Iran., Teachers--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139166
Title:
Iranian women.
Description:
"Jewish girls."
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Jewish women--Iran., Jews, Iranian--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139165
Title:
Boat on Lake Urmia, Iran.
Description:
The Muzafferia - on which we crossed Lake Urumia. - the pier on E. side of lake fr. wh. our bedding was tumbled into the water.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Boats and boating--Iran--Urmia, Lake.
Geographic subjects:
Urmia, Lake (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139164

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