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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:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Children sleeping at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57375
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Sign at Protestant church at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57374
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Service at Rohwer Buddhist Church, Rohwer Japanese American incarceration camp in Arkansas.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Rohwer (Ark.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57373
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Man walks down the street at a Japanese American incarceration camp; probably Manzanar in California.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57372
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Street view of a Japanese American incarceration camp; probably Manzanar in California.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57371
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
School children outside at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57370
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Church at Manzanar incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57369
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Choir at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57368
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Outside of the police station at a Japanese American incarceration camp; probably Manzanar in California.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57367
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Japanese American Citizens League San Francisco Chapter.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Japanese American Citizens' League.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57366
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Woman caring for baby at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57365
Title:
Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman camp together.
Description:
Hall and Sherman camp together to plan their coming Sunday school missionary program.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Sherman, Roger B. (Roger Bennett), 1892-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8398
Title:
Ralph Hall visits a family's home.
Description:
[Mobile minister Ralph Hall visits a family's home.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8392
Title:
Ralph Hall and others discuss Magdalena church.
Description:
Group of 6 discussing possibility of a permanent church at Magdalena (which has since become a reality). Ralph Hall is third from right.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--New Mexico--Magdalena--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Magdalena (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8381
Title:
Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman on horseback.
Description:
Ralph Hall (left) and Roger Sherman ride together as they did in their youth when Hall converted Sherman.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Sherman, Roger B. (Roger Bennett), 1892-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8274
Title:
Water garden with bridge.
Description:
[Water garden with bridge at a Japanese American incarceration camp.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6740
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Children playing outside at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Child internment camp inmates--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5580
Title:
Our Last Frontier -- Princeton Hall.
Description:
Text transcribed from accompanying script: The Presbyterians are proud of their territorial "Navy" -- the Princeton Hall, shown here, and the S.J.S. II. These boats are used for evangelistic work and transportation to church conferences.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Home missions--Alaska., Boats and boating in missionary work--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5526
Title:
Our Last Frontier -- Haines House.
Description:
Text transcribed from accompanying script: Presbyterians look with particular affection at Haines House -- the only home which many native children have ever known.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Orphanages--Alaska--Haines., Home missions--Alaska--Haines.
Geographic subjects:
Haines (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5464
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Library at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Libraries--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5454

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