Adams Family Papers

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The Adams family served as missionaries in Korea for two generations. This collection includes photographs, negatives, and a photograph album primarily documenting the period of the family's life and work at Taiku (Taegu), Korea. The collection also contains annual meeting photos of the Korea/Chosen Mission; a few "Dear Friends" letters written by Edward Adams in 1937, 1938 and 1941; and his annual personal report from Korea for 1938. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized. Featured image: Young Benjamin Adams standing with two Korean men outside of a building.

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Title:
Adams family photo album.
Description:
Korea missionaries. Annual meeting, 1927.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112957
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
Korea missionaries meeting.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112956
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
Korea missionaries outside of Pyeng Yang Academy Building. Annual meeting, 1910-1915?
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--P'yŏngyang., Missions--Korea--P'yŏngyang.
Geographic subjects:
P'yŏngyang (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112955
Title:
Adams family photo album.
Description:
Edward Adams and Korean men.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Adams, Edward, 1895-1965.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Men--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112954
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Gate entrance from road up to house. [Top right] Entrance path inside of gate. [Bottom left] Entrance path up toward house. [Bottom right] Front yard of house.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Adams family--Homes and haunts.
Topics:
Missions--Korea--Taegu., Dwellings--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112953
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Original helper with J.E.A. in Taiku. [Top right] Kim Chai Su. Kinn Tuk Kyeng, Taiku. [Bottom left] Kim Kyeng Sam and family. [Bottom right] First Bible woman in Taiku.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Men--Korea--Taegu., Women--Korea--Taegu., Missions--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112952
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
Taiku, Korea, 1899. [Top left and right] Nellie Dick Adams. [Bottom left and right] Benjamin Nyce Adams.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams, Nellie G. Dick, 1866-1909., Adams, Benjamin Nyce, 1898-1994.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112951
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Original Adams house, Taiku City, 1898. [Top right] House and gate back of Adams house going in to Johnson House. [Bottom left] Adams study in original house. [Bottom center] Latter same gate into boys academy. [Bottom right] Bruen house.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams family--Homes and haunts.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea., Dwellings--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112950
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
Tombstone of Nellie Dick Adams. Taiku, Korea. Nellie Dick. Wife of James E. Adams. Sept. 15, 1866 - Oct. 31, 1909. She is not dead but sleepeth.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Adams, Nellie G. Dick, 1866-1909--Tomb.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Taegu., Cemeteries--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112949
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top] Children outside in snow in front of building. [Bottom] Postcard. Rev. R.J. Thomas, the First Protestant Martyr in Korea, and the Thomas Memorial Church, Pyengyang, Korea.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Thomas Memorial Church (P'yŏngyang, Korea), Thomas, Robert Jermain, 1839-1866.
Topics:
Church buildings--Korea--P'yŏngyang., Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
P'yŏngyang (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112948
Title:
Adams family photo album.
Description:
Korea missionaries.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112947
Title:
Adams family photo album.
Description:
Edward Adams, Susan Adams, with women's Bible class.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Adams, Edward, 1895-1965., Adams, Susan Comstock.
Topics:
Christian education--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Women--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112946
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Celebration of 15th anniversary of Boys Academy, Taiku, 1921. [Top right] Same celebration. [Center left] Same celebration. [Center right] Two cows of Adams family, 1921. [Bottom left] Yeng Chung UP 1st Church. 1905. Cost $600. [Bottom center] Yeng Chung UP Church New 1921. Cost $3750. [Bottom right] Henry B. Adams and calf of old Adams cow, 1921.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams, Henry B.
Topics:
Students--Korea--Taegu., Missions--Educational work--Korea--Taegu., Church buildings--Korea--Taegu., Children of missionaries--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112945
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Front yard of house. [Top right] Adams house in winter in early days. [Bottom left] Adams house in winter. [Bottom right] Servant's gate house.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams family--Homes and haunts.
Topics:
Dwellings--Korea--Taegu., Missions--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112944
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Grape garden of Adams house. [Top right] Lower central front yard. [Bottom left] Orchard and garden. [Bottom right] Main tree in front.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112943
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Path up to house. [Top right] Path across garden. [Bottom left] Dining room, Adams house. [Bottom right] Bedroom, Adams House.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams family--Homes and haunts.
Topics:
Missions--Korea--Taegu., Dwellings--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112942
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] A family of relatives seeing Nellie D. Adams off to Korea, Topeka, Kansas 1904. [Top right] Women of Women's Bible class (2nd) Taiku. [Bottom left] First women's Bible class, Taiku. [Botton right] Third men's Bible class, Taiku.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams, Nellie G. Dick, 1866-1909.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Women--Korea--Taegu., Men--Korea--Taegu., Children--Korea--Taegu., Missions--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Topeka (Kan.), Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112941
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Edward Adams in winter. [Top right] Edward, Benjamin and Dorothy Adams. [Bottom left] Edward Adams. [Bottom right] Edward, Benjamin, and Dorothy Adams.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Adams, Edward, 1895-1965., Adams, Benjamin Nyce, 1898-1994., Adams, Dorothy.
Topics:
Children of missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112940
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Henry B. Adams, Taiku 1921. [Top right] Jan. 25, 1922. James E. Adams and family leaving Taiku for U.S. Farewell of Boy's Academy students.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Adams, James Edward, 1867-1929., Adams, Henry B.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea--Taegu., Missions--Korea--Taegu., Children of missionaries--Korea--Taegu., Buildings--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112939
Title:
Caroline Babcock Adams's photograph album.
Description:
[Top left] Evil spirit tree, girls academy dormitory yard, Taiku, 1922. [Top right] Trip to Andong, Jan. 1922. [Bottom left] Buddha stone image, Andong, 1922. [Bottom right] Andong district village, 1922.
Subject names:
Adams family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea., Stone carving--Korea--Andong-si., Buddhas.
Geographic subjects:
Andong-si (Korea)--Description and travel., Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112938

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