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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:
Seven years old and going to Boggs.
Description:
A promotional film for the Presbyterian-operated Boggs Academy in Keysville, Georgia. Tells the story of Shirley, a little girl who dreams of learning everything at Boggs. Produced by the PCUSA Board of National Missions, 1937.
Creator:
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., Boggs Academy.
Topics:
African Americans--Education--Georgia--Keysville., African American children--Georgia--Keysville.
Geographic subjects:
Keysville (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344681
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea., Boats and boating--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341065
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea., Dogs--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341064
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341063
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341062
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. Includes footage of a boar hunt.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Wild boar hunting--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341061
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. Includes footage of a boar hunt.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Wild boar hunting--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341060
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. Includes footage of camping and Paektu Mountain, a sacred volcano on the northern border of Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Volcanoes--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Paektu Mountain (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341059
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. Includes footage of camping and Paektu Mountain, a sacred volcano on the northern border of Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Volcanoes--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Paektu Mountain (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341058
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. Includes footage of Paektu Mountain, a sacred volcano on the northern border of Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Volcanoes--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Paektu Mountain (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341057
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341056
Title:
Horace and Ethel Underwood family film.
Description:
Family film of Horace and Ethel Underwood, Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. Includes footage of Korean cultural events.
Creator:
Underwood family. (creator)
Subject names:
Underwood, Horace H. (Horace Horton), 1890-1951., Underwood, Ethel.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--20th century., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Manners and customs--Korea., Outdoor recreation--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:341055
Title:
The Cowboys' Hitchin' Post.
Description:
Glimpses of the work of Sunday school missionaries in the Southwest and a cattlemen's camp meeting. Photographed by Frederick R. Thorne. Edited by John Fenton. Script written by Joe Forest. The title was suggested by the book of the same name written and published by Joe M. Evans of El Paso, Texas.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Forest, Joe. (author), Fenton, John. (editor)
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--Southwest, New., Camp meetings--Southwest, New., Home missions--Southwest, New.
Geographic subjects:
Southwest, New.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340289
Title:
In search of strength.
Description:
On Christian churches in Hong Kong, about 1965. Presented by United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. ; a cooperative production of the Division of Communications and Division of Interpretation and Stewardship ; the Support Agency, United Presbyterian Church.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency. Division of Interpretation and Stewardship., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency. Commmunications Division.
Topics:
Missions--China--Hong Kong., Refugees--China--Hong Kong.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177399
Title:
Mid-East Profile.
Description:
A report from the Commissions on Missionary Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., about 1956. Explores the powerful and conflicting forces at work in the Middle East and surveys the opportunities open to Christian missions to help form a revitalized society. Filmed in the Middle East.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (creator)
Subject names:
Malik, Charles Habib, 1906-1987.
Topics:
Missions--Middle East.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141949
Title:
Little Cowboy Americans, 1945.
Description:
The story of Ralph Hall and Sunday school missions in the Southwest.
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Thorne, Frederick R., Lormer, Jane., Bayak, Jack.
Topics:
Sunday schools., Church work with cowboys., Missions--Southwestern States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83074
Title:
Kenneth E. Wells and Margaretta B. Wells home movie, 1930s.
Description:
Wells family home movie, featuring Wells children and pet gibbon, Bimbo, 1930s.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Thailand Mission., Wells, Kenneth Elmer, 1896-1981., Wells, Margaretta B., 1902-1999.
Topics:
Missionaries--Thailand.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71682
Title:
View from the Cross (1960)
Description:
The church at work in unusual Christian witness. Evangelism at work through a church-based narcotics clinic, an apartment house ministry, a legal aid clinic, work with unwed mothers, and a church-administered coffeehouse.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Evangelism, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Audio Visual Dept.
Topics:
Home missions, Institutional missions, Church and social problems, Evangelistic work
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11014
Title:
Path of progress (1945)
Description:
Documents educational and medical mission work among African-Americans in the South.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African Americans--Educational work.--Missions, African Americans--Missions, Medical.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4317
Title:
Little Negro Americans, 1945.
Description:
Depicts the influence of the church in the daily lives of African-American children in the North and the South. Intended to be used in a Getting Better Acquainted program for children.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)
Subject names:
Agnew, Edith J. (Edith Josephine), 1897-1988.
Topics:
African American children., Church work with African American youth., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4305

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