Mission history

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Description:
Aimee Millican's correspondence to her daughter, Edith in 1942, during which Aimee Millican was in the United States on furlough.
Creator:
Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--Leaves and furloughs., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.), Oakland (Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:135932
Description:
School hours are informal but give kids a chance to get with it, educationally speaking. (The man sitting in for "teacher" here is Rev. Samuel Johnson, a Pentecostal preacher.) [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Johnson, Samuel.
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71690
Description:
Out-of-school teenagers are tough nuts to crack, but C-CAP [Church-Community Action Program] youth worker Frank T. Fair over 8-month period has won their confidence. [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
City missions--Oregon--Portland., African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71689
Description:
Some of the "new Breed" crew load up for a moving job. They cart furniture for needy families, get small fee from welfare agency. [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71688
Description:
C-CAP [Church-Community Action Program] headquarters occupy a storefront on Fremont St., are (is?) flanked by modest dwellings that make up the largely-Negro Albina section. Jessie M. Varner (right) assistant director checks schedule with her helper, Iantha Buchanan, a schoolgirl released for daytime work through poverty program's Neighborhood Youth Center. She attends school at night. [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71687
Description:
Rev. John W. Brooks (left), urban church specialist for Synod of Oregon, and Rev. J. Dwight Russell, synod executive, stand in front of Interchurch Center. Another evidence of Portland's ecumenical spirit, the building houses Presbyterian offices, state and city councils of churches and headquarters of several other denominations. [Image from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71686
Description:
Frank Fair (left) holds street conversation with Albina youth. [Image from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, regarding outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71685
Description:
[Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
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--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8438
Title:
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
Description:
[Lumberjack settlers in Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
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--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8424
Description:
[Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
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--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8419
Description:
[Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
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--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8384
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
Description:
[Bucking a Douglas fir in a Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
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--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8356
Description:
[Lumber camp in Portland, Oregon.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
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--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8350
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
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
Description:
Virginia Margaret Mackenzie, a graduate assistant in Latin and English, 1916-1917. Reed College, Office of the President, Portland Oregon.
Subject names:
Mackenzie, Virginia Margaret., Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives.
Topics:
Women missionaries--Japan--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Japan--Missionaries--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5928
Description:
Wiester Co. Portland Ore.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5908

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