Religious News Service Photographs

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Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., O'Connell, J.J.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357460
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Text transcribed from caption: CLOSE TO HIS HEART #S-1610 PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Pvt. Orville Chatman, of Riverton, Ky., exhibits the punctured New Testament which stopped a piece of shrapnel from entering his heart. He is a patient at Crile Hospital here. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JT-CL-MES-1-6-W-BI)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Crile General Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio), United States. Army., Chatman, Orville.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans., Soldiers--Ohio--Cleveland., Soldiers--Religious life., Bible. New Testament.
Geographic subjects:
Parma Heights (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357459
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Text transcribed from caption: WOMAN CHURCH INTERIOR DECORATOR S-1451 NEW YORK -- Here is Miss Mildred Irby, New York interior designer, who has done a great deal of work designing churches. She was a prominent figure at the North American Conference on Church Architecture held here. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SR-NY-LM-1-6W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., North American Conference on Church Architecture (New York, N.Y.), Irby, Mildred.
Topics:
Interior decorators--New York (State)--New York., Women interior decorators--New York (State)--New York., Church architecture--Congresses., Church architecture--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357452
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Text transcribed from caption: FORMER ARCHDEACON OF SYRIA AND LEBANON ON TRINITY CHURCH STAFF #1660 NEW YORK -- Canon Charles T. Bridgeman, a veteran of 20 years service in the Near East, has joined the staff of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church here. Canon Bridgeman, a native of New York, was Archdeacon of Syria and Lebanon of the Church of England and Honorary Canon of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. He taught at the Theological Seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem and was American educational chaplain, representing the Episcopal Church. He was instrumental in the establishment of many church schools throughout Syria and Trans-Jordan. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-2A-6-E-A)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bridgeman, Charles Thorley, 1893-1967., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Episcopal Church--Missions--Middle East.
Topics:
Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Returned missionaries--Middle East.
Geographic subjects:
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357390
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Text transcribed from caption: FORMER ARCHDEACON OF SYRIA AND LEBANON ON TRINITY CHURCH STAFF #1660 NEW YORK -- Canon Charles T. Bridgeman, a veteran of 20 years service in the Near East, has joined the staff of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church here. Canon Bridgeman, a native of New York, was Archdeacon of Syria and Lebanon of the Church of England and Honorary Canon of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. He taught at the Theological Seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem and was American educational chaplain, representing the Episcopal Church. He was instrumental in the establishment of many church schools throughout Syria and Trans-Jordan. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-2A-6-E-A)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bridgeman, Charles Thorley, 1893-1967., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Episcopal Church--Missions--Middle East.
Topics:
Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Returned missionaries--Middle East.
Geographic subjects:
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357389
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Text transcribed from caption: PUNJAB SIKHS FORM COLORFUL COLONY #1543 VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Some 40 years ago pioneering Sikhs from Punjab came here and settled around Vancouver, New Westminster and Victoria. Although they have become successful businessmen and farmers, they have kept many of their Punjab ways, most evident of which is their religion. During services men wear turbans, such as that worn by this youngster. He has just attended solemn ceremony honoring those who have died for the faith. (One of a Series) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SNS-TOR-ONT-MES-8C-6-ROTO)
Creator:
Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Singh, Mahinder.
Topics:
Sikh diaspora., Sikhs--Canada., Religious life--Sikhism., Sikh youth--British Columbia--Vancouver., Sikhism--Customs and practices., Turbans--Religious aspects--Sikhism., Sikh martyrs., Culture and Sikhism--British Columbia--Vancouver.
Geographic subjects:
Vancouver (B.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357341
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Text transcribed from caption: PADRES OF CANADA’S NEWEST KLONDIKE #1514 YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, CANADA -- Posed outside his small wooden church is bearded Father A. M. Gatty, O.M.I., who came from Belgium in 1939 to become spiritual adviser to this tiny outpost where the cry of “gold” is attracting thousands of prospectors and adventurers to Canada’s newest boomtown. Father Gatty speaks several Indian dialects, and his ministry is carried on in a mushroom city of tents, restaurants, rooming houses, and hotels whose normal population of 500 has increased to over 3,000. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (HW-NY-TFD-1-6-C)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Gatty, A.M., Catholic Church--Clergy., Catholic Church--Buildings.
Topics:
Clergy--Northwest Territories--Yellowknife., Indigenous peoples--Missions--Northwest Territories--Yellowknife., Gold mines and mining--Northwest Territories.
Geographic subjects:
Yellowknife (N.W.T.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357328
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Text transcribed from caption: FIRST WOMAN TO BE ORDAINED AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY #1511 Climaxing 20 years of religious work, Miss Grace Wasem of Girard, Kansas, yesterday received the honor of being ordained as an elder of the Methodist Church, becoming the first woman in the 107-year-old history of Boston University School of Theology to be so ordained. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
Creator:
MacDonald, Earl L. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wasem, Grace., Boston University. School of Theology--Students., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Clergy., Jesus Christ--Art.
Topics:
Ordination of women--Methodist Church., Elders (Church officers)--Methodist Church., Clergy--Massachusetts--Boston., Women seminarians--Massachusetts--Boston., Seminarians--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357325
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Text transcribed from caption: 1490 2. Mrs. Henry Topping, 83, veteran Baptist missionary in Japan. She and her husband, who died three years ago, were permitted to live in their own house in the suburbs of Tokyo throughout the period of Japanese-American enmity.
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Topping, Helen, 1889-1981.
Topics:
Missionaries--Japan--Tokyo., Women missionaries--Japan--Tokyo., World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Baptists., World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357317
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Text transcribed from caption: OFFSTAGE ACCOMPANIST 1443 URBANA, Ill. -- While the audience at the Methodist Student Conference joins in a song, Dr. T.Z. Koo, secretary of the World Student Christian Federation, is awaiting his turn to address the group gather in the auditorium of the University of Illinois campus here. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JS-UR-MES-1-6-M-S)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Student Christian Federation., Methodist Student Movement--Congresses., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., Koo, T. Z., 1887-1971.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Urbana., Flute players--Illinois--Urbana.
Geographic subjects:
Urbana (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357288
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Text transcribed from caption: LEADER OF JAPANESE PEACE SOCIETY 1436 TOKYO -- Tsunetaro Miyakoda, former general secretary of the National Christian Council in Japan, is general secretary of the International Peace Society. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-TO-MES-1-6-O)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Miyakoda, Tsunetarō, 1897-1983.
Topics:
Clergy--Japan--Tokyo., World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357285
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Text transcribed from caption: EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF TOKYO 1435 A TOKYO -- A former professor of theology, Dr. Paul C. Sasaki, is Episcopal bishop of Tokyo. He studied abroad in England, and has been bishop for ten years. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-TO-MES-1-6-A-E-D-O)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Sasaki, Paul Shinji., Nihon Seikōkai--Bishops.
Topics:
Bishops--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Aoyama (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357284
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Text transcribed from caption: S-1414 9. Mrs. Tamaki Uemura, one of Tokyo’s best pastors. Hers is the Kashiwagi Church of Yodobashi ward. She is the daughter of Masahisa Uemura, the nestor of Japanese Presbyterianism. Trained at Wellesley and Edinburgh, she is head of the women’s section of the United Church of Christ in Japan.
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Uemura, Tamaki, 1890-1982., Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan.
Topics:
Women in church work--Japan--Tokyo., Clergy--Japan--Tokyo., Women clergy--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Yodobashi-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357273
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: HEADS JAPANESE KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL #1413 TOKYO -- Miss Kiku Ishihara is head of the Tokyo Kindergarten School, which before the war was sponsored by the Lake Avenue Baptist Church of Rochester, N.Y. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-TO-MES-1-6-B-O-DEN)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ishihara, Kiku.
Topics:
Kindergarten teachers--Japan--Tokyo., Women kindergarten teachers--Japan--Tokyo., School administrators--Japan--Tokyo., Women school administrators--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357272
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PRINCIPAL OF TOKYO GIRLS’ SCHOOL #S-1372 TOKYO -- One of the outstanding women in Japanese Christendom, Miss Michi Kawai is principal of the Keisen Girls’ School here. She believes that the only way Japan can achieve democracy is through the use of more women in the country’s school system. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-JAP-MS-12-5-W-D-O)
Subject names:
Kawai, Michi, 1877-1953., Keisen Jogakuen--Faculty., Keisen Jogakuen., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School principals--Japan--Tokyo., Women school principals--Japan--Tokyo., Democratization--Japan., Church schools--Japan--Tokyo., Christianity--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357022
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Text transcribed from caption: CENTRAL U.S. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX FIGURE #S-1300 METROPOLITAN THEOPHILUS of San Francisco is the central figure in the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States. The Council of Bishops in Chicago recently delayed action for two years on a proposal to place the American Church under the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of Moscow Patriarch Alexei. Said Metropolitan Theophilus: “The bishops prefer a free, democratic, independent, American Church until they are convinced that the Moscow Church is free of political domination.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GM-SF-TFD-12-5-A-E-O-D-W)
Subject names:
Pashkovsky, Feodor Nikolaevich, Theophilus, Metropolitan of San Francisco., Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America--Bishops., Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America--Relations-- Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Bishops--California--San Francisco., Church congresses--Illinois--Chicago., Communism and Christianity--Soviet Union., Church and state--Soviet Union., Cold War.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357018
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: JAPANESE CHURCH EDUCATIONAL LEADER #1395 TOKYO -- Tsuraki Yano, president of Meiji Gakuin school here, was one of the staunch defenders of Christianity during the war. Through his efforts the Christian principles of his institutions were safeguarded against the demands of the militarists. He is chairman of the Christian Educators’ Association of Japan. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-TO-MES-1-6-W-P-DEN)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Yano, Tsuraki, 1886-1975., Meiji Gakuin--Faculty., Meiji Gakuin., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
School administrators--Japan--Tokyo., World War, 1939-1945., Church schools--Japan--Tokyo., Christianity--Japan., Universities and colleges--Japan--Tokyo., Christian universities and colleges--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Minato-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356990
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: JAPANESE SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICIAL 1387 TOKYO -- The Rev. Isamu Chiba is secretary of the Board of Sunday Schools of the United Church of Christ in Japan. A Baptist, he is standing in front of the building which houses the offices of the United Church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-JAP-MS-125-OB)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan., Chiba, Isamu., Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan--Clergy., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Clergy--Japan--Tokyo., Christian leadership--Japan--Tokyo., Christianity--Japan., Sunday school superintendents--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356988
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONGREGATIONALIST IN JAPANESE CHURCH POST 1383 TOKYO -- A former Congregationalist pastor in Yokohama, the Rev. Tokuso Hiraga now heads the general affairs department of the United Church of Christ in Japan. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-TO-MES-12-5-D-O-M-D-C)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hiraga, Tokuso., Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan., Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan--Clergy., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Clergy--Japan--Tokyo., Congregationalists--Japan--Tokyo., Christian leadership--Japan., Christianity--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356985
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: JAPANESE YOUTH LEADER 1382 TOKYO -- Katsumi Nagamatsu is secretary of the student division of the Japanese YMCA and secretary of the Imperial University Y here. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RTB-TO-MES-12-5-D-O-M-D-Y-Y)
Creator:
Baker, Richard Terrill, 1913-1981. (photographer)
Subject names:
Nihon Kirisutokyō Seinenkai Dōmei., Nagamatsu, Katsumi., Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with youth--Japan--Tokyo., Christian leadership--Japan--Tokyo., Christianity--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356984

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