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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:
Arthur Garner Welbon's seminary graduation photo, 1900.
Description:
Arthur Garner Welbon (1866-1928). Fourth son of Thomas and Mary Esther. Picture taken for his graduation from San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1900. [From p. 24 of "Arthur goes to Korea : the early life of Arthur Garner Welbon and his first years as a missionary to Korea, 1900-1902" by Priscilla Welbon Ewy.]
Creator:
Ewy, Priscilla Welbon, 1937- (author)
Subject names:
Welbon, Arthur Garner, 1866-1928--Portraits., San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Portraits., Seminarians--California--San Francisco.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153019
Title:
Donaldina Cameron with others.
Subject names:
Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, 1869-1968., Donaldina Cameron House.
Topics:
Home missions--California--San Francisco--20th century., Women missionaries--California--San Francisco., Church work with Asian Americans--California--San Francisco.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150256
Title:
Rev. Richard H. and Effie Sidebotham.
Description:
Rev. Richard H. and Mrs. Sidebotham. [From "Michigan Presbyterian", Detroit, Mich., Nov. 2, 1899.]
Subject names:
Sidebotham, Richard H., 1874-1908--Portraits., Sidebotham, Effie--Portraits.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Portraits., Women missionaries--Korea--Portraits.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146319
Title:
Portrait of Henry Harris Jessup, D.D.
Description:
Henry H. Jessup. Taken when Moderator of the General Assembly.
Subject names:
Jessup, Henry Harris, 1832-1910.
Topics:
Missionaries--Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133240
Title:
Dwight Mission, Vian, Oklahoma.
Creator:
Dwight Presbyterian Mission News. (publisher)
Subject names:
Dwight Mission (Vian, Okla.)--Buildings.
Topics:
Church buildings--Oklahoma--Vian.
Geographic subjects:
Vian (Okla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112552
Title:
John Eliot preaching to the Indians.
Subject names:
Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
Topics:
Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775., Indians of North America--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:108999
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native girls in the "McFarland Home," Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Text from caption: Indian Girls in the "McFarland Home," Fort Wrangell, Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Native children--Education--Alaska--Wrangell., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Wrangell.
Geographic subjects:
Wrangell (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104600
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native girls in the "McFarland Home," Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Text from caption: Indian Girls in the "McFarland Home," Fort Wrangell, Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Educational work--Alaska--Wrangell., Alaska Native children--Education--Alaska--Wrangell.
Geographic subjects:
Wrangell (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104599
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native girls in the "McFarland Home," Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Text from caption: Indian Girls in the "McFarland Home," Fort Wrangell, Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Wrangell., Alaska Native children--Education--Alaska--Wrangell.
Geographic subjects:
Wrangell (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104598
Title:
The Whitman Mission.
Description:
The Whitman Mission (Waiilatpu) in 1843 [illustration].
Subject names:
Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:9946
Title:
On the Trail of the Sunday School Missionary.
Description:
On the Trail of the Sunday School Missionary.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Sunday School Missions.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., Missionaries--United States., Sunday schools--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8860
Title:
PCUS Map of Church Extension.
Description:
[PCUS Map of Church Extension.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of Church Extension.
Topics:
Home missions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8851
Title:
Woman speaking into microphone.
Description:
Woman speaking into microphone.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
KSEW (Radio station : Sitka, Alaska), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Radio in religion--Alaska--Sitka., Home missions--Alaska--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8652
Title:
Geores family on Christmas Eve.
Description:
By candlelight on Christmas Eve the Geores read the story of Jesus' birth and sing carols. From left: Deborah, Melva, Paul, Martha, and Ruth. [Presbyterian Life]
Subject names:
Geores, Carl H., 1922-, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Home missions--Maine--20th century., Rural missions--Maine--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Maine--Missions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8635
Title:
Basket makers at Ingleside Seminary.
Description:
Basket makers at Ingleside Seminary, Burkeville, Va. [From Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Board Reports, 1929, between page 160 and 161.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Ingleside Seminary (Burkeville, Va.)
Topics:
Presbyterian theological seminaries--Virginia--Burkeville.
Geographic subjects:
Burkeville (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8443
Title:
Rev. Ralph J. Hall.
Description:
Rev. Ralph J. Hall - The Presbyterian Missionary "Cowboy" in New Mexico.
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973.
Topics:
Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8418
Title:
Assembly's Home Mission Work by Synod.
Description:
Assembly's Home Mission Work by Synod.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Home Missions.
Topics:
Home missions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8328
Title:
Marcus Whitman pleading for Oregon.
Description:
Marcus Whitman pleading for Oregon before President Tyler and Secretary Webster. [Plate from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon by Oliver W. Nixon, p. 128a.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory--Missions., Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8119
Title:
Edmund B. Chaffee.
Description:
Edmund B. Chaffee Director of Labor Temple.
Subject names:
Chaffee, Edmund B. (Edmund Bigelow), 1887-1936., Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.)
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8107
Title:
Murder of Dr. Marcus Whitman.
Description:
Massacre of Rev. Dr. Whitman of the Presbyterian Mission. An Artist's Conception of the Murder of Dr. Marcus Whitman. Illustration from Clifford M. Drury's Marcus Whitman, M.D. [Original plate from a wood-engraving by N. Orr & Co. Plate originally published in Frances Fuller Victor's (1826-1902) biography of Joe Meek, The River of the West, published ca. 1870. Reprinted in Clifford Merrill Drury's (1897-1984) Marcus Whitman, M.D.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Death and burial., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8052

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