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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:
A student teaches Bible stories to kindergarten pupils, Jibrail Rural Fellowship Center
Description:
Jibrail Rural Fellowship Center, Tripoli. Students in the village school get practice in childcare by teaching day kindergarten pupils. This girl tells a Bible story with the help of a flannelgraph.
Creator:
Nelson, Carl. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Lebanon., Missions--Educational work--Lebanon.
Geographic subjects:
Jibrail (Lebanon), Lebanon--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:69956
Title:
Man smoking pipe for Nowruz Feast.
Description:
Haider Ali, smoking water-pipe, in room fixed up for the feast.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Pipe smoking--Iran., Hookahs--Iran., Nawrūz (Festival)--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140112
Title:
Offering chicken to Idol.
Subject names:
American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Idols and images--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century., Congo (Democratic Republic)--Religion.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6648
Title:
Interview of Joseph P. Cochran by Margaret Deck.
Creator:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1892- (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1892-
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146314
Title:
Addis Ababa.
Subject names:
Nichol family--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Ethiopia--20th century., Maps--Ethiopia.
Geographic subjects:
Ethiopia--Missions--20th century., Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5614
Title:
Elizabeth Margaret Evans and family.
Description:
Family photo on a postcard.
Subject names:
Evans, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Margaret), 1886-1972.
Topics:
Missionaries--Japan., Women missionaries--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1909
Title:
William H. Sheppard Congo mission photograph album, circa 1890-1910.
Description:
835.02.05a: Boa constrictor, out of which was cut a large goat. Sheppard with two missionaries with rifles, and a large group of natives gathered around them. 835.02.05b: Large cat fish caught out of the Congo River by WHS. Sheppard and two native men, with Lapsley II in background. 835.02.05c: Sheppard with native men (possibly chiefs) and leopard skins. 835.02.05d: Sheppard and two native men with camels.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:33615
Title:
Four women carrying baskets on their heads.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives.
Topics:
Women--Congo (Democratic Republic), Baskets--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1851
Title:
Dr. George R. Cousar and Dr. Eugene R. Kellersberger.
Description:
[Dr. George R. Cousar (left) and Dr. Eugene R. Kellersberger (right) during an operation.]
Subject names:
American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966., Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966--Archives.
Topics:
Hospitals--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions, Medical--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7333
Title:
Six Homes Cairo, photos and slides, 2006.
Subject names:
Gibson, Richard George, 1929-2007--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Egypt., Missionaries--Egypt., Missionaries--Cyprus.
Geographic subjects:
Cairo (Egypt)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115509
Title:
First General Assembly and Celebration of the Independence of the Église Presbytérienne Camerounaise, 1957.
Description:
First General Assembly and Celebration of the Independence of the Église Presbytérienne Camerounaise. Elat, Ebolowa, Cameroon, 11 December 1957. Eugene Carson Blake preaching the sermon. A.I. Good, veteran missionary and linguistic, translate into Bible.
Subject names:
Eglise presbytérienne camerounaise., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon--Ebolowa.
Geographic subjects:
Ebolowa (Cameroon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112806
Title:
Old couple newly baptized.
Description:
Old couple newly baptized.
Subject names:
American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Baptism--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century., Congo (Democratic Republic)--Religion.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6416
Title:
Indian Christians.
Description:
Indian Christians. Text transcribed from caption: Native Christians.
Subject names:
Wanless, W. J. (William James), Sir, 1865-1933--Archives.
Topics:
Christians--India--19th century., Missions--India--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
India--Religion--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5175
Title:
Women's Foreign Missions Society Seal.
Description:
Women's Foreign Missions Society Seal.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Woman's Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Women missionaries.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7483
Title:
Sangli bungalow.
Subject names:
Wanless, W. J. (William James), Sir, 1865-1933--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--India--Sāngli--19th century., Bungalows--India--Sāngli.
Geographic subjects:
Sāngli (India)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5243
Title:
Aimee and Frank Millican correspondence to their daughter, Edith, 1956 to 1957.
Description:
Aimee and Frank Millican's correspondence to their daughter, Edith, 1956 to 1957, during their retirement from missionary service.
Creator:
Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974. (author), Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Returned missionaries., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Stanwood (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:135503
Title:
William H. Sheppard Congo mission photograph album, circa 1890-1910.
Description:
835.01.09b: Unidentified native woman with chain around her neck. 835.01.09c: Two unidentified native people (woman and girl). n835.01.09d: Two unidentified men in military uniforms holding rifles.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:33603
Title:
Dr. W. W. Wood.
Description:
Dr. W. W. Wood.
Subject names:
Wood, Walter Welcome., Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries, Medical--Brazil--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Brazil--Missionaries--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6447
Title:
Maria Margaret Wagner.
Description:
Miss Maria M. Wagner Sept. 16, 1955 Kowloon Hong Kong.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives., Wagner, Maria M.
Topics:
Women missionaries--China--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
China--Missionaries--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5939
Title:
Thomas Kirkpatrick photograph album, no. 2.
Description:
[Top] Tabriz from west. [Bottom] Tabriz from south.
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Thomas LeRoy, 1887-1941. (photographer)
Subject names:
Kirkpatrick, Thomas LeRoy, 1887-1941--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138820

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