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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:
Evangelical Seminary, Matanzas, Cuba.
Description:
Evangelical Seminary. Matanzas, Cuba. Students in the library.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cuba--Matanzas--20th century., Theological seminaries--Cuba--Matanzas., Seminarians--Cuba--Matanzas.
Geographic subjects:
Matanzas (Cuba)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142494
Title:
Evangelical Seminary, Matanzas, Cuba.
Description:
Evangelical Theological Seminary, Matanzas, Cuba.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cuba--Matanzas--20th century., Theological seminaries--Cuba--Matanzas., Seminarians--Cuba--Matanzas.
Geographic subjects:
Matanzas (Cuba)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142492
Title:
Cowboy camp meeting.
Description:
Cowboy camp meeting, New Mexico. It looks like Ralph Hall and he's telling stories. Oct. 1955.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Church work with cowboys--New Mexico., Camp meetings--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:111122
Title:
Pastor talking to industrial workers.
Description:
Pastor talking to industrial workers.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--New Jersey--20th century., Church work with the working class--New Jersey--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Jersey.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:9954
Title:
Rev. and Mrs. W. Theodore Allison.
Description:
A send-off from Mrs. Allison starts the day for Rev. W. Theodore Allison, who carries on a mobile ministry among uranium workers near Grants, New Mexico. Like the people they serve, the Allisons live in a mobile home, 10 x 50 feet, use the back bedroom as a pastor's study.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Allison, Winthrop Theodore, 1900-1979., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--New Mexico--Grants--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--Frants--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Grants (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8866
Title:
Woman speaking into microphone.
Description:
Woman speaking into microphone.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
KSEW (Radio station : Sitka, Alaska), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Radio in religion--Alaska--Sitka., Home missions--Alaska--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8652
Title:
Church in Ohio.
Description:
[Church in Ohio.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church buildings--Ohio.
Geographic subjects:
Ohio--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8463
Title:
Children on slide in playground.
Description:
[Children on slide in playground.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Playgrounds--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8456
Title:
Timber Ridge Church.
Description:
[Timber Ridge Church.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church buildings--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8452
Title:
Men building a church.
Description:
[Low-angle scene--men building a church.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8440
Title:
Church with tall steeple.
Description:
[Church with tall steeple.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church buildings--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8439
Title:
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert M. Peters.
Description:
[Sunday school missionaries, Rev. and Mrs. Herbert M. Peters, sort clothes to be given to families of needy lumberjacks, Tamarack, Minnesota.]
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Peters, Herbert M., 1904-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--Minnesota--20th century., Church work with loggers--Minnesota--20th century., Missionaries--Minnesota--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Minnesota.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8436
Title:
Sign in Mt. Washington, Ohio.
Description:
[Sign in Mt. Washington, Ohio.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Signs and signboards--Ohio--Cincinnati.
Geographic subjects:
Mount Washington (Cincinnati, Ohio)--Signs and signboards.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8430
Title:
Church with steeple.
Description:
[Church with steeple.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church buildings--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8428
Title:
Timber Ridge Church sign.
Description:
[Timber Ridge Church sign.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church signs--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8425
Title:
Woman elder from Reedy Creek.
Description:
[Woman elder from Reedy Creek with others.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8422
Title:
Church at Reedy Creek.
Description:
[Church at Reedy Creek.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church buildings--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8405
Title:
Rev. Philip Bimbower and building committee.
Description:
[Rev. Philip Bimbower and building committee at church near Canada, Kentucky.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church buildings--Kentucky.
Geographic subjects:
Canada (Ky.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8395
Title:
New pastor being installed at Reedy Creek.
Description:
[New pastor being installed at Reedy Creek.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8387
Title:
Ex-GIs and their wives in church meeting.
Description:
[Ex-GIs and their wives in church meeting at Timber Ridge Church.]
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8375

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