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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries. See the following related collections: Foreign missions; Domestic missions. Featured image: Missionary to China Aimee Boddy Millican (1884-1974) and radio broadcasting staff.

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Title:
Tabriz ruins, Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Tauris. Les débris de la Mosquée-Bleue, pendant la Révolution Persane. [Back] Ruins of the famous Blue Mosque, once one of the most beautiful buildings in Tabriz.
Creator:
Société par Actions "Econome" (publisher)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Ruins., Mosques--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)--Antiquities.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280829
Title:
Vendors and children of Tabriz.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Les mendiants de Tauris [Back] Persian men - beggars, chicken vendor, etc.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Children--Iran--Tabrīz., Merchants--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280828
Title:
Persian mother and son.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Un paysan conduisant sa mère [Back] Persian woman traveling. Typical Persian scene.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Families--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280827
Title:
Fiske Seminary graduates.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Graduating class of Fiske Seminary after 5 mos of Trouble. Type of [illegible] girls. Indoor veils, veiled girls of Fiske Seminary 1920? Carte Postale.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives., Fiske Seminary (Urūmīyah, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Theological seminaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Urūmīyah., Schoolgirls--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280826
Title:
Kermanshah orphanage.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: W. War #1. Kermanshah orphanage, Iran. Working in garden.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Kirmānshāh., Church work with orphans--Iran--Kirmānshāh., Orphanages--Iran--Kirmānshāh.
Geographic subjects:
Kirmānshāh (Kirmānshāh, Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280825
Title:
Laborers carrying camel thorn.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Paysans transportant des fagots [Back] Loads of camel thorn for man and donkey. It is used as kindling.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Donkeys--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280824
Title:
Tabriz street scene.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Tabriz Tauris. Une rue de Tauris et les magasins "Econome". [Back] Société par Actions "Econome".
Creator:
Société par Actions "Econome" (publisher)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280819
Title:
Zanjan to Tabriz.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Zenjan to Tabriz. May 1919. Flight 1919 Edna Gould Browning (getting on horse) Iran.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Browning, Edna Gould., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Zanjān., Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Women missionaries--Iran--Zanjān., Women missionaries--Iran--Tabrīz., Missionaries--Iran--Zanjān., Missionaries--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran), Zanjān (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280816
Title:
Fiske Seminary, Urmia, Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Fiske Seminary. Rebuilding after destruction of war (W.W.#1) - 1919-1920.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Fiske Seminary (Urūmīyah, Iran), Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Urūmīyah., Theological seminaries--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280814
Title:
Women in Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Veiled women.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Women--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280813
Title:
Tabriz procession.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: People in the streets watching a "Moharam" procession. Tall spire, Funch Catholic Church. Pointed spire, our Preb. Church. Tabriz Iran.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Processions, Religious--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280811
Title:
Men in Urumia marketplace.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Bringing in the silver tomans from the market place in Urumia. This money to be used for mission purposes and relief work. One thousand tomans is all one man can carry at a time unless he is unusually strong.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Men--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280810
Title:
Fiske Seminary graduates.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Graduating class of Fiske Seminary after 5 mos of Trouble. Type of [illegible] girls. Indoor veils, veiled girls of Fiske Seminary 1920? Carte Postale.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives., Fiske Seminary (Urūmīyah, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Theological seminaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Urūmīyah., Schoolgirls--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280809
Title:
Persian wedding, 1946.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Warmest wishes, your sincere friends. Vajdieh Usafe November 13 1946 Persian Wedding.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Weddings--Iran., Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280808
Title:
Furough School, Resht, Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Furough School 1936 Resht Iran. Celebration of Unveiling of Persian women.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Rasht., Schoolgirls--Iran--Rasht., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Rasht.
Geographic subjects:
Rasht (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280807
Title:
Fiske Seminary rebuilding.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Fiske Seminary. Rebuilding after the war 1919-20.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Fiske Seminary (Urūmīyah, Iran), Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Building--Iran--Urūmīyah., Theological seminaries--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280804
Title:
Tabriz Station missionaries.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Tabriz Station missionaries.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Missionaries--Iran--Tabrīz., Women missionaries--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280802
Title:
Baqubah refugee camp.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Top Left] Flight from Urumia 1918.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Refugees--Iraq--Baʻqūbah., Refugees--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries--Iraq--Baʻqūbah., Missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missions--Iraq--Baʻqūbah., Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Baʻqūbah (Iraq), Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280801
Title:
Resht Church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Resht Church 1935 M.G. was ordained an Elder in this Church -- One is probably Dr. Bucher, Pastor.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Rasht., Missionaries--Iran--Rasht., Women missionaries--Iran--Rasht.
Geographic subjects:
Rasht (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280800
Title:
Urumia missionaries.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Urumia Missionaries.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Women missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah.
Geographic subjects:
Urūmīyah (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280799

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