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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:
And yet they left their homes and came to college.
Description:
Transcript of a speech given at Westminster Congregational Church in Spokane, Washington on May 9, 1946 by an unnamed educator at the American Junior College for Women in Beirut, Lebanon. The author uses one of their college songs to illustrate the journey and growth of the students.
Subject names:
American Junior College for Women (Beirut, Lebanon), Westminster Congregational Church (Spokane, Wash.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Lebanon--Beirut, Missions--Educational work--Lebanon--Beirut, Women's colleges--Lebanon--Beirut
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon), Spokane (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145170
Title:
Women in a changing Near East.
Description:
Transcript of a speech given to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in Everett, Washington by an unnamed American educator on March 28, 1947. Highlights stories of individual students at the American Junior College for Women in Beirut, Lebanon to show how education has had a positive impact on the women's lives.
Subject names:
American Junior College for Women (Beirut, Lebanon), American Association of University Women.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Missions--Educational work--Lebanon--Beirut., Women's colleges--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon), Everett (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:144745
Title:
Aimee Millican with friends Muriel Boone and Flossie Smith (?)
Description:
"Taken at Camano Island the year Frank died. Muriel went to stay with Aimee for about 2 months."
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Smith, Flossie., Boone, Muriel, 1893-
Topics:
Women missionaries--China., Returned missionaries--Washington--Camano Island.
Geographic subjects:
Camano Island (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133745
Title:
Edith Millican at Camano Island, Washington, 1961.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--Washington--Camano Island., Returned missionaries--Washington--Camano Island.
Geographic subjects:
Camano Island (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133523
Title:
Portrait of Aimee Millican, ca. 1900.
Description:
Aimee May Boddy. Blaine - ca. 1900 - 16 yrs old.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Blaine (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133517
Title:
Portrait of William Boddy.
Description:
Wm. H. Boddy (Bill) - Blaine - 15 yrs old. abt 1900.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Boddy, William Henry, 1886-1940.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China.
Geographic subjects:
Blaine (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133425
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Lapland reindeer en route to Alaska in public park. Seattle, Washington, 1898. No. 574. U.S. government reindeer expedition to Alaska. Wilse & Kirk Photo. Seattle.
Creator:
Wilse and Kirk (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Washington--Seattle., Missions--Washington--Seattle.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104189
Title:
Ships in Alaska.
Description:
U.S.S. Fleetis, Seattle Harbor, April 1902.
Creator:
Hamilton, William E. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Ships--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103332
Title:
Animals in Alaska.
Description:
The reindeer herd in the city park, Seattle, Washington. En route to Alaska, 1898.
Creator:
LaRoche (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Washington--Seattle.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102695
Title:
Animals in Alaska.
Description:
Reindeer herd, Seattle.
Creator:
LaRoche (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Washington--Seattle.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102664
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:
Washington lumber camp.
Description:
[An up to date logging camp in Washington; nice warm buildings. On back: "Mr. Gillespie's office" and "Dick Ferrell, one of 14 Presbyterian logging camp missionaries holds services regularly in this camp."]
Subject names:
Ferrell, Richard Townsend, 1885-1956., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--Washington., Lumbering--Washington., Church work with loggers--Washington.
Geographic subjects:
Washington
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8279
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:
The tomahawk that killed Marcus Whitman.
Description:
The tomahawk that killed Marcus Whitman.
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Death and burial., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Whitman Massacre, 1847., Tomahawks., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8114
Title:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide.
Description:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide, July 4, 1836. "They raised the flag, read a chapter from God's Word and took possession of the land for Christ and for the Church" [Illusration of Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Eliza Hart Spalding, and William H. Gray on their journey west.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Oregon Mission., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8094
Title:
Whitman Centennial seal.
Description:
[Whitman Centennial seal, from title page of A Brief Requesting Assistance in the Restoration of the Grounds and Reconstruction of the Buildings of the Waiilatpu Mission on the Centenary of its Founding, 1836-1936.]
Subject names:
Whitman Centennial Celebration (1936 : Walla Walla, Wash.), Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8058
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
Title:
Marcus Whitman on his winter ride.
Description:
Marcus Whitman leaving home on his winter ride to save Oregon. [Plate from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon, by Oliver W. Nixon.]
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--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8049
Title:
Waiilatpu Mission Site.
Description:
Waiilatpu Mission Site where the Whitmans labored.
Subject names:
Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.), Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7873
Title:
Papoose doll.
Description:
Papoose doll, which once belonged to Elizabeth Sager when she was a girl living at the Whitman Mission. [Used in an exhibit at the Whitman National Monument museum by the National Park Service.]
Creator:
United States. National Park Service. (creator)
Subject names:
Sager, Elizabeth, 1837-1925., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory., Northwest, Pacific.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7762

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