Millican Family Papers

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Correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs documenting the Millican family's missionary experiences in China, and to a lesser extent in the Philippines, emphasizing the difficulties of their work during the Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s and during the post-World War II years. Edith Millican's correspondence documents medical work in China during and after World War II, giving insight into the training and experiences of, and opportunities for, American women doctors. Also included are photographs documenting Edith Millican's time serving the Board of National Missions as a physician in New Mexico. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire collection has been digitized. Featured image: Aimee and Frank Millican just before going to China, 1907.

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Title:
Aimee and Frank Millican with friends.
Description:
"The boys didn't sit in the right place. Sit up, mother, ear lobe over shoulders! Edith you better me up."
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133529
Title:
Aimee Millican with friends.
Description:
Bess, Maymie, Aimee. Dec. 66.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--United States., Returned missionaries--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133528
Title:
Aimee Millican.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133526
Title:
Edith and her father, Frank Millican, Camano Island, Washington, ca. 1960.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China., Women missionaries--China., Returned missionaries--Washington--Camano Island.
Geographic subjects:
Camano Island (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133525
Title:
Baby Edith Millican with Chinese woman, 1915.
Description:
Edith with North China Amah. (Note bound feet)
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Children of missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133524
Title:
Edith Millican at Camano Island, Washington, 1961.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--Washington--Camano Island., Returned missionaries--Washington--Camano Island.
Geographic subjects:
Camano Island (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133523
Title:
Edith Millican and Betty Isbister in Philadelphia, 1963.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Isbister, Betty A.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Returned missionaries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133522
Title:
Edith Millican at Cass Lake, Minnesota, 1951.
Description:
Recreation - Edith Millican with Boones at Cass Lake, Minnesota. Summer 1951. Edith loved to swim.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Returned missionaries--Minnesota--Cass Lake., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--Minnesota--Cass Lake.
Geographic subjects:
Cass Lake (Minn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133521
Title:
Portrait of Aimee Millican.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133520
Title:
Edith Millican and Muriel Boone, China, 1947.
Description:
Chenhsien 1947. Muriel and Edith in our yard. Notice Widow's Arch across the garden wall in front of hosp. gate.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Boone, Muriel, 1893-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries, Medical--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133519
Title:
Buddhist Priest by Temple urn.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Buddhist priests--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133518
Title:
Portrait of Aimee Millican, ca. 1900.
Description:
Aimee May Boddy. Blaine - ca. 1900 - 16 yrs old.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Blaine (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133517
Title:
Girls' School, Ningbo, China.
Description:
Margaret Duncan, Headmistress.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Duncan, Margaret.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China--Ningbo Shi., Missions--Educational work--China--Ningbo Shi., Girls' schools--China--Ningbo Shi.
Geographic subjects:
Ningbo Shi (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133516
Title:
Riverside Academy, Ningbo, China. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary.
Description:
Entire faculty and student body. Shows Main Building as destroyed by fire in 1937.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China--Ningbo Shi., Missions--Educational work--China--Ningbo Shi., School buildings--China--Ningbo Shi., Girls' schools--China--Ningbo Shi.
Geographic subjects:
Ningbo Shi (China)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133514
Title:
Aimee Millican and friends.
Description:
? - Bess, Aimee.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133511
Title:
Edith Millican and group of women.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133509
Title:
Children playing in Chenzhou, China.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Children--China--Chenzhou.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133508
Title:
Presbyterian Church.
Description:
Women on one side, men on other.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China., Evangelistic work--China., Church buildings--China--Ningbo Shi.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133506
Title:
Edith Millican in Philadelphia, 1963.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Returned missionaries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133505
Title:
Frank Millican and Chinese friends.
Description:
"Friends with a Taoist-Scholar Priest?"
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China., Taoist priests--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133504

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