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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:
Mary Louise Blatchley correspondence, 1895-1907.
Description:
Primarily letters addressed to Mary Louise Blatchley.
Creator:
Blatchley, Mary Louise. (addressee), Birkinbine, Mary L. (author), Myers, J. M. (author), Blatchley, Henry Gilbert. (author), Bristol, Sadie. (author), Bennett, Harriet D. (author), Blatchley, Charles Alfred. (author), Haney, Clara L. (author), Reid, Belle. (author), Roberts, Frances L. (author)
Subject names:
Blatchley, Mary Louise--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Women in church work--Presbyterian Church--Pennsylvania., Women in missionary work., Home missions.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Wayne (Pa.), Guilford (Conn.), Grafton (W. Va.), Cornwall (Conn.), Lebanon (Pa.), Parkesburg (Pa.), Irvington (N.Y.), Prospect Park (Delaware County, Pa.), Berwyn (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:158563
Title:
Mary Louise Blatchley correspondence, 1894.
Description:
Primarily letters addressed to Mary Louise Blatchley.
Creator:
Blatchley, Mary Louise. (addressee), Bennett, Harriet D. (author), Bristol, Allen. (author), Blatchley, Henry Gilbert. (author), Haney, Clara L. (author), Blatchley, Charles Alfred. (author), Bristol, Sadie. (author), Harrison, Agnes. (author), Birkinbine, Mary L. (author), Matthews, B. L. (author)
Subject names:
Blatchley, Mary Louise--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Women in church work--Presbyterian Church--Pennsylvania
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Wayne (Pa.), Guilford (Conn.), Grafton (W. Va.), Cornwall (Conn.), Newburyport (Mass.), Juneau (Alaska), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Winthrop (Me.), Lebanon (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:158130
Title:
Mary Louise Blatchley correspondence, 1889-1893.
Description:
Primarily letters addressed to Mary Louise Blatchley.
Creator:
Blatchley, Mary Louise. (addressee), Gilbert, Charles Gilbert. (author), Dean, Nellie E. (author), Harrison, Agnes. (author), Haney, Clara L. (author), Blatchley, Henry Gilbert. (author), Bristol, Allen. (author)
Subject names:
Blatchley, Mary Louise--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Presbyterian Church--Women in church work--Pennsylvania.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Altoona (Iowa), Guilford (Conn.), Grafton (W. Va.), Wayne (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:157886
Title:
One Great Hour of Sharing features from Jeff Hatfield and Alan Krome.
Description:
Includes "Sudan: A Hunger for Peace"; "Building Communities," Norris Square, Philadelphia land trust and housing cooperative; "That They May Be Heard," Matamoros maquiladora workers; "Opening Doors," Interfaith Hospitality Network; "Holy Trees," northern Ethiopia reforestation; "Sharing Seeds," agricultural cooperative, Beattyville, Kentucky; "When the Wind Blows," interfaith disaster recovery; longform version of IHN homelessness outreach; "Touchpoint," newsmagazine/promo featuring work among Brazilian children.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Communications and Funds Development. Media Services., Hatfield, Jeff., Krome, Alan., One Great Hour of Sharing.
Topics:
Church and social problems--Presbyterian Church., Women offshore assembly industry workers--Mexico--Matamoros (Tamaulipas), Church work with the homeless., Reforestation--Ethiopia., Agriculture, Cooperative--Appalachian Region., Church work with disaster victims., Church work with children--Brazil.
Geographic subjects:
Sudan., Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.), Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico), Ethiopia., Appalachian Region., Brazil.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:143418
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her mother, Aimee Millican, 1963.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her mother, Aimee Millican, 1963. It also includes a November 1963 letter addressed to Edith Millican from John Paul North, M.D., F.A.C.S., Director of the American College of Surgeons.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives., Womens Medical College of Philadelphia.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Returned missionaries., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123583
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her mother, Aimee Millican, 1964.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her mother, Aimee Millican, during her transition to her private practice in Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1964. It also includes a letter addressed to Aimee Millican from family friend, Betty.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Womens Medical College of Philadelphia.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Returned missionaries., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Mora County (N.M.), Las Vegas (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122510
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, 1940 to 1942.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, during her time at Women's Medical College of Philadelphia and at Embudo Presbyterian Hospital in Embudo, New Mexico, 1940 to 1942.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Womens Medical College of Philadelphia., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Embudo (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:121736
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, 1961.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, during her time at the Board of National Missions' Mora Valley Medical Unit in Cleveland, New Mexico, 1961.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Returned missionaries., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians.
Geographic subjects:
Mora County (N.M.), Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:120711
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, 1962.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, during her time at the Board of National Missions' Mora Valley Medical Unit in Cleveland, New Mexico, 1962.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Womens Medical College of Philadelphia.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Returned missionaries., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians.
Geographic subjects:
Mora County (N.M.), Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:119569
Title:
Buck Hill Falls mission consultation, after 1957, side 2.
Description:
Two-sided mono recording. Buck Hill Falls, Pa. consultation on foreign missions, including Chile, Brazil, Cameroon, Syria, Lebanon, after 1957.
Creator:
Anderson, L. K. (Llewellyn Kennedy), 1900-1980.
Topics:
Missions--Chile., Missions--Cameroon., Missions--Lebanon., Missions--Africa., Missions--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Chile., Syria., Africa., Lebanon., Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116521
Title:
Buck Hill Falls mission consultation, after 1957, side 1.
Description:
Two-sided mono recording. Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania consultation on foreign missions, including Chile, Brazil, Cameroon, Syria, Lebanon, after 1957.
Creator:
Anderson, L. K. (Llewellyn Kennedy), 1900-1980.
Topics:
Missions--Lebanon., Missions--Africa., Missions--Syria., Missions--Chile., Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Africa., Lebanon., Cameroon., Syria., Chile.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116509
Title:
Photographs of children in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from back: 1. Sheldon Jackson 2. Mary Remy 3. Harvey Townsend 4. John Shields 1. Frank Cushing 2. Nellie Cary 3.Ben Thomas 4. John Menaul 5. Taylor Ealy 6. Mary Ealy 7. Jennie Hammaker.
Creator:
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Students.
Topics:
Alaska Native children., Alaska Native children--Pennsylvania--Carlisle.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska., Carlisle (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104597
Title:
Photographs of children in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from back: 1. Sheldon Jackson 2. Mary Remy 3. Harvey Townsend 4. John Shields 1. Frank Cushing 2. Nellie Cary 3.Ben Thomas 4. John Menaul 5. Taylor Ealy 6. Mary Ealy 7. Jennie Hammaker.
Creator:
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Students.
Topics:
Alaska Native children., Alaska Native children--Pennsylvania--Carlisle.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska., Carlisle (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104596
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native children brought to Carlisle Indian School. Text transcribed from caption: Coogidlore. Tumasock. Lablok. Esanetuck. Anneebuck. Kokleluk. Eskimo Children from Bering Straits. Brought to Carlisle Indian School by Dr. Sheldon Jackson, October 1897. Photograph by Choate.
Creator:
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909., United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Students.
Topics:
Alaska Native children--Education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Carlisle (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103056
Title:
Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Description:
Drawing of Bethesda Presbyterian Church. W.E. Ginnodo, Builder, Phila. Addison Hutton, Architect, Phila.
Creator:
Rhoads Photograph Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Bethesda Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Church buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102829
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Rev. William Y. Brown, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
Creator:
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Brown, William Y.
Topics:
Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102813
Title:
Children in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native children at Carlisle Indian School, as arrived at Carlisle. Labla, Gudlelluk, Douatsok, Anniak. Former description: Eskimo children at Carlisle Indian School. Esquimaux as arrived at Carlisle. Indian photographs. Labla, Gudlelluk, Douatsok, Anniak.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Topics:
Alaska Native children--Pennsylvania--Carlisle., Alaska Natives--Education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle.
Geographic subjects:
Carlisle (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102618
Title:
Board of Missions for Freedmen minutes, 1925.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen--Archives.
Topics:
Slaves--United States--Emancipation., Freedmen--United States--Religious life., African Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:93266
Title:
Board of Missions for Freedmen minutes, 1927.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen--Archives.
Topics:
Slaves--United States--Emancipation., Freedmen--United States--Religious life., African Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:93206
Title:
Board of Missions for Freedmen minutes, 1926.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen--Archives.
Topics:
Slaves--United States--Emancipation., Freedmen--United States--Religious life., African Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:93151

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