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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:
Dr. Cochran with a Kurdish Chieftain.
Description:
Dr. Cochran with a Kurdish Chieftain.
Subject names:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1855-1905.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran--20th century., Missions--Iran--20th century., Missionaries--Iran--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8478
Title:
Dick Ferrell.
Description:
[Dick Ferrell.]
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--Oregon--Portland., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland., Missionaries--Oregon.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8431
Title:
T. H. Simpson.
Description:
T. H. Simpson.
Subject names:
Simpson, T. H.--Portraits., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with loggers--20th century., Missionaries--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8396
Title:
Frank E. Higgins.
Description:
[Portrait of Frank E. Higgins]
Subject names:
Higgins, Frank E. (Francis Edmund), 1865-1915., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., Church work with loggers--United States., Missionaries--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8385
Title:
Dick Ferrell.
Description:
Dick Ferrell, lumber camp missionary.
Subject names:
Ferrell, Richard Townsend, 1885-1956--Portraits., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church work with loggers--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8380
Title:
Fred W. Davis.
Description:
Fred W. Davis, minister to timber men, railroad men and miners, Box 178 Portland, Oregon.
Subject names:
Davis, Fred W., 1853-1938--Portraits., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Oregon--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--20th century., Home missions--Oregon--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8359
Title:
Jack McCall.
Description:
[Jack McCall, lumber camp missionary in Western Montana.]
Subject names:
McCall, Jack., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Montana, Western--20th century., Home missions--Montana, Western--20th century., Church work with loggers--Montana, Western--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Montana, Western.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8336
Title:
Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.
Description:
[Lumberjacks in lumber camp posing with a felled bee tree. On back: "Doing their bit for the cause, cutting wood to heat the church. Money is scarce but there is plenty of wood, strong hands, and willing hearts. On this occasion we 'felled' a bee tree. The men in the center are holding some of the honey." Attached to February report of Stewart J. Robertson.]
Subject names:
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--Oregon--Portland., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8324
Title:
Minister preaching in logging camp.
Description:
[Postcard of a minister preaching in a logging camp after supper, with men sitting on edge of bunks. The publication "Close-ups" by H.N. Morse identifies this image as Jack McCall preaching to lumber jacks in a bunk house (p. 6).]
Subject names:
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--Oregon--Portland., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland., Missionaries--Oregon.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8285
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:
Eaton Reindeer Station, Alaska. Norman.
Description:
Eaton Reindeer Station, Alaska. Norman.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Alaska., Reindeer farming--Alaska., Home missions--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7088
Title:
One of the native wards in Caroline A. Ladd Hospital Pyengyang, Korea.
Description:
One of the native wards in Caroline A. Ladd Hospital Pyengyang, Korea.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Hospitals--Korea--P'yŏngyang.
Geographic subjects:
P'yŏngyang (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6929
Title:
British Legation Cemetery.
Description:
In the British Legation Cemetery where some of those who were killed, or died from disease, during the siege were buried. Some of the graves contain the bodies of as many as three people there being no time to dig a separate grave for each one. Neither could coffins be made for them. About seventy foreigners died in one way or another during the siege.
Creator:
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916. (photographer)
Subject names:
Killie family--Archives.
Topics:
Cemeteries--China--Beiijing.
Geographic subjects:
Beijing (China)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6453
Title:
Portrait of Charles Allen Clark.
Description:
Charles Allen Clark: McCormick Sem. Class '02. Clark C.A. Korea.
Creator:
O. F. Stafford & Co. (photographer)
Subject names:
Clark, Charles Allen, 1878-1961--Portraits., Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Portraits.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5028
Title:
Portrait of Charles R. Hamilton.
Creator:
Nussbaumer, J. George. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hamilton, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1872-1954--Portraits., Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Philippines--Portraits.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4948
Title:
William H. Sheppard in Europe.
Description:
Sheppard somewhere in Europe, with a group of men and women, in front of a Tudor-style house with a garden.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927.
Topics:
African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1932
Title:
William H. Sheppard in Europe.
Description:
Sheppard somewhere in Europe, with a group of boys, in front of a building with large columns.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927.
Topics:
African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1930
Title:
Congolese artifacts.
Description:
Congolese artifacts brought back by William H. Sheppard and others.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Antiquities--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1929
Title:
William H. Sheppard with a group of native boys.
Description:
Sheppard with a group of native boys, who are wearing western clothing.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Children--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1926
Title:
William H. Sheppard after an antelope hunt.
Description:
Sheppard holding a dead antelope, two native men holding spears, and leopard skin drying on a palm tree in background.
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Hunting--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1924

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