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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:
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
Title:
Marcus Whitman Memorial Plaque.
Description:
[Postcard of Marcus Whitman Memorial Plaque in Walla Walla, Washington.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Memorials--Washington (State)--Walla Walla., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Walla Walla (Wash.)--Memorials.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7750
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:7735

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