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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:
Mountaineer Mining Mission slideshow.
Description:
Slides, taken from 1952 to 1957 by Edgar Thorne, of the Mountaineer Mining Mission, Jordan, W. Va. and Edna, W. Va.; converted to VHS, about 1989.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbytery of West Virginia., Thorne, Edgar., Mountaineer Mining Mission.
Topics:
Home missions--Appalachian Region., Appalachians (People)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340959
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:
"There Was Light!" A Video Documentary
Creator:
Jitegemea Production (film producer), Boro, Wanjiku (film director)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church of East Africa., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives.
Topics:
East Africans.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300799
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:
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:
Church of Christ in Thailand AIDS ministry.
Description:
PC(USA) outreach video on Church of Christ in Thailand AIDS ministry, narrated by mission co-worker Janet Guyer, October 2001.
Creator:
Guyer, Janet. (narrator), Williams, Joseph. (editor), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly Mission Council. Office of Communication. (producer)
Subject names:
Church of Christ in Thailand.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions, Medical--Thailand., AIDS activists--Thailand.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142513
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:
Christian Witness in a Muslim Land
Subject names:
Christian Hospital Taxila., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Communications and Funds Development. Media Services--Archives.
Topics:
Missions, Medical--Pakistan--Taxila., Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural--Pakistan--Taxila.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140894

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