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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:
Group photograph at the wedding of Eunice Blanchard and Richard Poethig.
Description:
Text transcribed from verso: June 7, 1952. Erna Poethig, Eunice Blanchard & Richard Poethig, Juliet Rumsey Stroh Blanchard, David Blanchard. [Individuals described from left to right.]
Subject names:
Poethig, Richard P.--Archives., Poethig, Eunice Blanchard, 1930-2018--Archives., Poethig, Richard P., Poethig, Eunice Blanchard, 1930-2018.
Topics:
Presbyterian men., Presbyterian women., Weddings.
Geographic subjects:
Dayton (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356169
Title:
Margaret Moore Gottlieb auto-biographical essays.
Description:
Two autobiographical essays by Margaret Moore Gottlieb, daughter of American missionaries in India. The first is typewritten and recounts the author's life, beginning in 1937, when she was studying at Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio. Subsequently, this essay recounts the story of Margaret Moore Gottlieb's married life, to Sid Gottlieb, including their rural lifestyle in Northern Virginia, the raising of their four children, their later years spent traveling and volunteering in Australia, Africa, and India, a five-year stint spent residing in Santa Cruz, California, and finally their move back to Northern Virginia. In the second essay, titled "The Anguish of India," the author recounts her childhood and adolescence living in a rural town in India, her feelings about missionary work, her sentiments toward the greater culture she encountered in India, and her thoughts about this culture after returning forty years later to work for a time in a mission hospital.
Creator:
Gottlieb, Margaret Moore, 1919- (author)
Subject names:
Gottlieb, Sidney, 1918-1999., Gottlieb, Margaret Moore, 1919-, College of Wooster.
Topics:
Children of missionaries--India--20th Century--Biography., Missionaries--India--20th Century.
Geographic subjects:
District of Columbia., India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287129
Title:
Golden and Dick Baird's correspondence, circa 1950-1959.
Description:
Golden and Dick Baird's correspondence, circa 1950-1959. Written during their retirement from mission work and during Dick's time at COEMAR. Includes a letter addressed to Golden from their daughter, Nancy Elisabeth.
Creator:
Baird, Golden Stockton, 1898-1982. (author), Baird, Richard Hamilton, 1898-1994. (author)
Subject names:
Baird, Golden Stockton, 1898-1982., Baird, Richard Hamilton, 1898-1994., Wells, Nancy Baird., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Wooster (Ohio), Newbern (Tenn.), Oakland (Calif.), Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:173609
Title:
Dick Baird's outgoing correspondence to Golden Baird, circa 1920-1929.
Description:
Dick Baird's correspondence to Golden, 1920-1929. Letters primarily predate their marriage and arrival in Korea in July 1923.
Creator:
Baird, Golden Stockton, 1898-1982. (addressee), Baird, Richard Hamilton, 1898-1994. (author)
Subject names:
Baird, Golden Stockton, 1898-1982., Baird, Richard Hamilton, 1898-1994.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Princeton (N.J.), Newbern (Tenn.), Wooster (Ohio), Halls (Tenn.), Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:172052
Title:
Edna Heminger's correspondence, 1922-1923.
Description:
Correspondence of Edna Heminger (Mrs. L.D. Heminger), a missionary to Cameroon. Primarily between Heminger and the Acting Secretary for Africa, W. Reginald Wheeler, regarding her decision to return to the mission field.
Creator:
Heminger, Edna Michaels. (author), Wheeler, W. Reginald (William Reginald), 1889-1963. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission., Heminger, Edna Michael., Wheeler, W. Reginald (William Reginald), 1889-1963.
Topics:
Missionaries--Cameroon., Women missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Wooster (Ohio), Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:169260
Title:
Rachel Kerr Johnson correspondence, 1854-1859.
Description:
Primarily letters from Rachel to her family while she was at Steubenville Female Seminary.
Creator:
Johnson, Rachel Kerr, 1837-1888. (author), Kerr, Samuel. (addressee), Kerr., Mary Swaney. (addressee), Kerr, Frank. (addressee), Kerr, David, Jr. (addressee)
Subject names:
Johnson, Rachel Kerr, 1837-1888--Archives., Steubenville Female Seminary.
Topics:
Women in missionary work--India--19th century., Female seminaries--Ohio--Steubenville.
Geographic subjects:
India.--Presbyterian Church--Missions, Steubenville (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:158911
Title:
As World Mission Assembly got under way.
Description:
Dr. Ralph E. Diffendorfer receives gavel from Dr. Toru Matsumoto at the World Mission Assembly held by the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
Creator:
Trayte.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Foreign Missions Conference of North America., Diffendorfer, Ralph E. (Ralph Eugene), 1879-1951., Matsumoto, Tōru.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation--Ohio--Columbus., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Meetings--Ohio--Columbus., Religious leaders--Ohio--Columbus.
Geographic subjects:
Columbus (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146244
Title:
World Mission Assembly in session.
Description:
General view of the World Mission Assembly held by the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
Creator:
Trayte.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation--Ohio--Columbus., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Meetings--Ohio--Columbus.
Geographic subjects:
Columbus (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146237
Title:
East meets West at Mission Assembly.
Description:
Harold E. Stassen meets with Dr. Hilda Lazarus of India at the World Mission Assembly held by the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
Creator:
Trayte.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Foreign Missions Conference of North America., Stassen, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1907-2001., Lazarus, Hilda Mary., 1890-1978.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation--Ohio--Columbus., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Meetings--Ohio--Columbus., Religious leaders--Ohio--Columbus.
Geographic subjects:
Columbus (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146228
Title:
Poethig family on Christmas Day, 1956.
Description:
Christmas in Dayton.
Creator:
Eastman Kodak Company. (manufacturer)
Subject names:
Poethig, Kerry--Archives., Poethig, Eunice Blanchard.
Topics:
Missionaries--Philippines., Children of missionaries--Philippines., Christmas--Ohio--Dayton.
Geographic subjects:
Dayton (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145541
Title:
Virginia Salgado at 15 years old, 1927.
Description:
By finding 15 Bible references in less than 15 minutes, Virginia Salgado, 15, of Toluca, Mexico, won the intermediate Christian Endeavor "sharpshooting contest," Virginia traveling all the way from Mexico to an Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O., to compete. She worked under the handicap of being unable to understand English, the announcer's words being translated. [Caption from Anaconda Standard Newspapers Archives, Anaconda, Montana, Tues., July 19, 1927, p. 2.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives., United Society of Christian Endeavor., Salgado, Virginia--Portraits.
Topics:
Christian youth--Mexico., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio), Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145291
Title:
Virginia Salgado at 15 years old, 1927.
Description:
By finding 15 Bible references in less than 15 minutes, Virginia Salgado, 15, of Toluca, Mexico, won the intermediate Christian Endeavor "sharpshooting contest," Virginia traveling all the way from Mexico to an Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O., to compete. She worked under the handicap of being unable to understand English, the announcer's words being translated. [Caption from Anaconda Standard Newspapers Archives, Anaconda, Montana, Tues., July 19, 1927, p. 2.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives., United Society of Christian Endeavor., Salgado, Virginia--Portraits.
Topics:
Christian youth--Mexico., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio), Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145290
Title:
Virginia Salgado at 15 years old, 1927.
Description:
By finding 15 Bible references in less than 15 minutes, Virginia Salgado, 15, of Toluca, Mexico, won the intermediate Christian Endeavor "sharpshooting contest," Virginia traveling all the way from Mexico to an Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O., to compete. She worked under the handicap of being unable to understand English, the announcer's words being translated. [Caption from Anaconda Standard Newspapers Archives, Anaconda, Montana, Tues., July 19, 1927, p. 2.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives., United Society of Christian Endeavor., Salgado, Virginia--Portraits.
Topics:
Christian youth--Mexico., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio), Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145289
Title:
Edith Millican graduating from the College of Wooster.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Wooster (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133536
Title:
Edith Millican graduating from the College of Wooster.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Wooster (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133439
Title:
Letter to Walter Lowrie from Peter Dougherty, Cleveland, October 10, 1855.
Creator:
Dougherty, Peter, 1805-1894. (author)
Subject names:
Dougherty, Peter, 1805-1894., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Chippewa Tribe., Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868.
Topics:
Ottawa Indians--Missions--19th century., Ojibwa Indians--Missions--19th century., Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:89399
Title:
Letter to Walter Lowrie from Peter Dougherty, Cleveland, September 30, 1858.
Creator:
Dougherty, Peter, 1805-1894. (author)
Subject names:
Dougherty, Peter, 1805-1894., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Chippewa Tribe., Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868.
Topics:
Ottawa Indians--Missions--19th century., Ojibwa Indians--Missions--19th century., Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88793
Title:
Reverend Charles Beatty and Reverend George Duffield preaching to the Indians on the banks of the Muskingum River.
Creator:
Bonsall, Mary W., 1868-1959. (artist)
Subject names:
Duffield, George, 1732-1790., Beatty, Charles, 1715?-1772.
Topics:
Indians of North America--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Muskingum River (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82968
Title:
Mayor's Proclamation commending Ben Weir.
Description:
Mayor’s Proclamation, City of Canton, Ohio, Commending the Reverend Benjamin M. Weir, May 20, 1987.
Creator:
Purses, Samuel. (author)
Subject names:
Weir, Ben, 1923-2016., Purses, Samuel.
Topics:
Missionaries--Lebanon--Beirut--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10150
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

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