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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:
A prayer being offered.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Prayer groups--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339579
Title:
Persian Mohammedan Boys of the Shah's College, Tehran.
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., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Students--Iran--Tehran., Schoolboys--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339577
Title:
Vacation Bible School girls' class, circa 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Iran - near Teheran. Vacation Bible School conducted at the Garden of Evangelicalism. Girls' class with their stick puppet setting of the Prodigal Son. Credit: Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Students--Iran--Tehran., Schoolgirls--Iran--Tehran., Puppet theater--Iran--Tehran., Children's theater--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339562
Title:
Girls' School, Presbyterian Mission, Tehran, Persia.
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., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Students--Iran--Tehran., Schoolgirls--Iran--Tehran., School buildings--Iran--Tehran., Buildings--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339561
Title:
Cardelia Kanon at Colton Kirkwood Whipple Hospital in Tabriz, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Tabriz. Colton-Kirkwood-Whipple Hospital. Cardelia Kanon, director of nurses' school lectures to student nurses. T. Fujihira. Iran.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Colton Kirkwood Whipple Hospital (Tabrīz, Iran), Kanon, Cardelia.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Missions, Medical--Iran--Tabrīz., Hospitals--Iran--Tabrīz., Nurses--Iran--Tabrīz., Nurse administrators--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339557
Title:
Clinic of Hope, Tehran, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Iran - Teheran. Clinic of Hope. Doctor and nurse examining a patient. Credit: Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Clinic of Hope (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions, Medical--Iran--Tehran., Clinics--Iran--Tehran., Patients--Iran--Tehran., Physicians--Iran--Tehran., Nurses--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339531
Title:
Boy drawing curtain on children's play, Tehran, circa 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Iran - Teheran. Boy designated to draw the curtain on a play given by the children of the mission compound. Credit: Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Children--Iran--Tehran., Children's theater--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339521
Title:
Clinic of Hope, Tehran, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Iran - Teheran. Clinic of Hope. Bible woman telling stories to waiting mother. Credit: Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Clinic of Hope (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions, Medical--Iran--Tehran., Clinics--Iran--Tehran., Patients--Iran--Tehran., Children--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339520
Title:
Building ruins, Iran, 1934.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Ruined buildings--Iran., Buildings--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339516
Title:
The Alborz Foundation, Tehran, Iran, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Iran - Teheran. Alborz Foundation. Stanley Hollingsworth (center) leads students in discussion. Credit: Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Alborz Foundation (Tehran, Iran), Hollingsworth, Stanley.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Schools--Iran--Tehran., Students--Iran--Tehran., Teachers--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339513
Title:
Tabriz Evangelical Church, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Tabriz Evangelical Church - Church building as congregation exits. Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Church buildings--Iran--Tabrīz., Buildings--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339497
Title:
Man tending to garden.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Gardens--Iran., Gardening--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339492
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:
Growing Up in Iran.
Description:
Elder Family reunion photograph album and history, "Growing Up In Iran." Reminiscences of five daughters and sons of Ruth (Roche) and John Elder, missionaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Recorded by Jack Tiffany during an Elder-family reunion at Conference Point Center in Williams Bay on the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin August 2 and 3, 2010. Page 28 of document is missing.
Creator:
Tiffany, Jack. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Elder family--Archives., Elder family., Elder, John, 1894-1981., Elder, Ruth Roche, 1899-1992., Leake, Alice Elder., Hilton, Miriam Elder., Elder, Joseph., Elder, David., Lund, Louise Elder.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293237
Title:
Howard Baskerville fiftieth anniversary memorial ceremonies, 1959.
Description:
Includes the following materials: "Program for the Baskerville ceremonies" which lists events organized for attendees of the 50th anniversary memorial ceremonies in Tabriz, sponsored by the US Consulate in Tabriz on April 19th and 20th of 1959; "Talk by the Consul", the speech given by the American Consul in Tabriz during the 1959 ceremonies; "Response by His Excellency the Ambassador of the United States of America, Edward T. Wailes at ceremonies honoring Howard Baskerville", the speech given by the American ambassador to Iran during the 1959 ceremonies; and "Non-Americans attending the Baskerville ceremonies" a list of non-Americans from Tehran, Tabriz, and elsewhere, who attended the 1959 ceremonies.
Creator:
Wailes, Edward T. (author), Josif, Harold G. (author)
Subject names:
Baskerville, Howard C., 1885-1909., Baskerville, Howard C., 1885-1909--Death and burial.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran--Biography., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Memorial rites and ceremonies--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--History--1905-1911., Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:289527
Title:
Howard Baskerville, 1885-1909
Description:
Written for the fiftieth anniversary of the killing of Howard Baskerville, an American educator in Iran.
Creator:
Shafaq, Riz̤āʹzādah, 1892 or 1893- (author), Taqīʹzādah, Ḥasan, 1878-1969. (contributor), Josif, Harold G. (contributor)
Subject names:
Baskerville, Howard C., 1885-1909., Baskerville, Howard C., 1885-1909--Death and burial.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran--Biography., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Memorial rites and ceremonies--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--History--1905-1911.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:289494
Title:
Iranian Students Learn of Christ
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Alborz Foundation (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288900
Title:
The Alborz Foundation.
Description:
Pamphlet for the Alborz Foundation, an agency of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Alborz Foundation (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288895

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