Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Photographs

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The PCUSA's Board of Foreign Missions was organized in 1837 to convey the Gospel throughout the "heathen and anti-Christian world." This collection documents the Board of Foreign Mission's work through photographs, glass slides, and negatives. Subjects depicted include missionaries, mission stations, educational institutions, churches, medical facilities, projects and certain prominent events. The bulk of the collection is from the twentieth century. Featured image: Korean conspiracy trial prisoners.

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Title:
Presbyterian Industrial Project office in Kowloon.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Meal at the Kowloon Tsai Chapel.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Kowloon., Political refugees--China--Kowloon., Food relief--China--Kowloon.
Geographic subjects:
Kowloon (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340112
Title:
Presbyterian Case Work Center in Kowloon.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Mandarin speaking Chinese refugee woman working on a handwoven rug.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Kowloon., Rugs, Hooked--China--Kowloon., Political refugees--China--Kowloon., Humanitarian assistance--China--Kowloon.
Geographic subjects:
Kowloon (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340085
Title:
Presbyterian Industrial Project office in Kowloon.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Children receiving clothes.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Kowloon., Political refugees--China--Kowloon., Humanitarian assistance--China--Kowloon.
Geographic subjects:
Kowloon (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340046
Title:
Unidentified man in front of a building, China.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Men--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340043
Title:
Rooftop school, Hong Kong, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Teacher in a rooftop school for refugee children maintained by the Hong Kong Council of Churches.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Church World Service., Hong Kong Christian Council.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Elementary school teachers--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340037
Title:
Rooftop school, Hong Kong, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Refugee children eating a snack in one of the rooftop schools maintained by the Hong Kong Council of Churches.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Church World Service., Hong Kong Christian Council.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Students--China--Hong Kong., Food relief--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340016
Title:
Mrs. Thakur Das and Miss Nannie Hereford.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: In front of new government settlement building.
Creator:
Hereford, Nannie. (donor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Hereford, Nannie., Das, Thakur, Mrs.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Women missionaries--China--Hong Kong., Refugees--Housing--China--Hong Kong., Political refugees--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339991
Title:
Rooftop school, Hong Kong, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Children playing on a rooftop school run by the Hong Kong Council of Churches.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Church World Service., Hong Kong Christian Council.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Students--China--Hong Kong., Recreation--China--Hong Kong., Playgrounds--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339975
Title:
Presbyterian Industrial Project office in Kowloon.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Kowloon., Political refugees--China--Kowloon., Humanitarian assistance--China--Kowloon.
Geographic subjects:
Kowloon (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339801
Title:
Chinese refugees in Hong Kong.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Since the end of the Second World War, refugee immigrants have swarmed into Hong Kong. Of a total population of 3,000,000, there are some one million Chinese refugees. As a result, for nearly fifteen years Hong Kong has faced the twin evils of grossly overcrowded tenements and squatter communities. The government is spending nearly one third of its annual budget on measures to help the refugees and voluntary organizations have brought valuable help to the most destitute in the form of material assistance. On 26 November 1957, the General Assembly of the U.N. recognized the problem of the Chinese refugees in Hong Kong as being of "international concern" and requested the High Commissioner to lend his good offices in channeling voluntary international contributions. Refugee shacks on a hillside in Hong Kong.
Creator:
United Nations. (publisher)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Political refugees--China--Hong Kong., Refugees--China--Hong Kong., Refugees--Housing--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339757
Title:
Rooftop school, Hong Kong, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Classroom for refugee children in a rooftop school maintained by the Hong Kong Council of Churches.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Church World Service., Hong Kong Christian Council.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Students--China--Hong Kong., Elementary school teachers--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339685
Title:
Chinese refugee sorting supplies.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Presbyterian Case Work Center. Mandarin speaking Chinese refugee sorting Church World Service supplies.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Church World Service.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Kowloon., Political refugees--China--Kowloon., Humanitarian assistance--China--Kowloon.
Geographic subjects:
Kowloon (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339638
Title:
Mrs. Thakur Das, Miss Nannie Hereford, and a woman.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Refugee shacks on a hillside in Hong Kong.
Creator:
Hereford, Nannie. (donor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Hereford, Nannie., Das, Thakur, Mrs.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Women missionaries--China--Hong Kong., Refugees--Housing--China--Hong Kong., Political refugees--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339570
Title:
Miss Ruth T. Soong, director of the Presbyterian Industrial Project.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Presbyterian Industrial Project. Miss Ruth T. Soong, director, looking over art work brought in by a Chinese refugee, which she will appraise for sale.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Soong, Ruth T.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Kowloon., Scrolls (Decorative arts)--China--Kowloon., Humanitarian assistance--China--Kowloon.
Geographic subjects:
Kowloon (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339495

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