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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:
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:
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:
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:
Wagon in the ditch at Shibley Pass.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: June 1918 At the foot of Shibley pass - one of our dashgas (wagons) in the ditch.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Wagons--Iran., Mountain passes--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280797
Title:
Orphan child.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 1919 Moslem orphan. Many children looked like this during the famine, and many died of hunger.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Church work with orphans--Iran., Orphanages--Iran., Malnutrition in children--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280780
Title:
Ganjnameh inscriptions.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Hamadan, Gandjnamé [Back] Carte Postale Hamadan Ganjnameh inscription (Walls).
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., Achaemenian inscriptions.
Geographic subjects:
Hamadān (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280777
Title:
Women traveling in Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Chavadar! May 1918 Mrs. [illegible], Mrs. Eldrid, Monica. Inside Chavadar. Women sometimes travelled this way.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Vehicles--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280771
Title:
Tatbir (Ritual bloodletting).
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Muharram headcutters a religious ceremony. Carte Postale.
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:
Tenth of Muḥarram--Iran., Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280763
Title:
Iran Mission Meeting, 1957.
Description:
Participants identified by Mehdi Abhari in 2017.
Creator:
Abhari, Mehdi. (author)
Subject names:
Miller, William McElwee, 1892-1993., Community School (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180818
Title:
Iran Mission Meeting, 1957.
Subject names:
Miller, William McElwee, 1892-1993., Community School (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180817
Title:
Maro Simonian oral history, 1998, side 2.
Description:
"Dreams and visions," recorded April 1998.
Creator:
Simonian, Maro, 1902-1999. (speaker)
Subject names:
Christian Hospital (Rasht, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147308
Title:
Maro Simonian oral history, 1998, side 1.
Description:
"Dreams and visions," recorded April 1998.
Creator:
Simonian, Maro, 1902-1999. (speaker)
Subject names:
Christian Hospital (Rasht, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147307
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:
Iranian women's meeting.
Description:
World Day of Prayer service, Kermanshah, Iran, 1954.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Women--Religious life--Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142473
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:140114
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:
Kurdish women in Mavana, Iran.
Description:
Daughters of Haji Agha Kurds at Mawaua.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Women, Kurdish--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140111
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:
Turkey--Iran.--Boundaries, Iran--Turkey.--Boundaries
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140107
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:140105
Title:
Portrait of Persian man.
Creator:
Cadwallader's Fine Art Gallery (Marietta, Ohio) (photographer)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Muslim men--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140102

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