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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.
Start date:
1896
End date:
1941
Creator:
Adams family. (creator)
Subject names:
Adams family., Adams, Nellie G. Dick, 1866-1909., Adams, Edward, 1895-1965., Adams, Benjamin Nyce, 1898-1994., Adams, George J. (George Jacob), 1907-, Adams, James Edward, 1867-1929., Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg251
Description:
African American history, including church, mid council, and national agency records; personal papers; photographs; publications; and oral histories collected as part of the African American Leaders and Congregations Initiative. Featured image: Student minister with boys, Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C., circa 1950.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
United States.--Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church, United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:afam
Description:
Images, documents and sound and video recordings pertaining to American history, with a particular emphasis on the role of Presbyterians and Presbyterianism in the spiritual, social, political and cultural life of the nation.
Featured image: "This is our land, now" (ca. 1948) from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--19th century, United States--History--20th century
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:americanhistory
Description:
Missionary correspondence written to the secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions documenting the mission work among Native Americans. Letters are official in nature but often contain personal comment and experiences. A smaller portion of the collection consists of reports, including school and mission station reports and statistics; financial statements, accounts, and vouchers; agreements/contracts; and maps. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Letter to F.F. Ellenwood from Herbert Welsh, November 11, 1887. Letter to F.F. Ellenwood from Herbert Welsh, November 11, 1887.
Start date:
1833
End date:
1950
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Western Foreign Missionary Society., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Ojibwa Indians--Missions--19th century., Indians of North America--Missions--19th century., Presbyterian Church--Missions--19th century., Indians of North America--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg224
Description:
Annie Laurie Adams Baird and her husband, the Rev. Dr. William M. Baird, were appointed to the Chosen (Korea) Mission in 1890 by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. From 1891 until 1897, they served at the Seoul, Fusan, and Taiku stations. In 1897, they were transferred to Pyengyang where Dr. Baird assumed the presidency of the Pyengyang Academy and Union Christian College and Mrs. Baird conducted the first woman's Bible Training class in Pyengyang. This collection includes Mrs. Baird's personal correspondence, testimonials, memorial resolutions, clippings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to her work with the Korea Mission, 1914, 1916-1917 and 1928. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Pyongyang Foreign School Dormitory Occupants, 1915-1916 (From the William M. Baird Papers, 1885-1951.)
Creator:
Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916. (creator)
Subject names:
Baird family., Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916., Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
P'yŏngyang (Korea), Seoul (Korea), Pusan (Korea), Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg172
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:audio_collection
Description:
William Martyn Baird, Jr., (1897-1987), and his brother, Richard Hamilton Baird, (1898-1995) were born in Chosen (Korea) to Presbyterian missionary parents, William Martyn Baird (1862-1931) and Annie Laurie Adams Baird (1864-1916). Both men served as missionaries in Korea under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The collection includes photographs primarily documenting the Korean mission and the Korean Presbyterian Church, as well as Baird family members; correspondence; a travel account by Richard Baird; and material pertaining to the Rev. Carl McIntire and the Korean Church. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Korea missionary staff, ca. 1900.
Creator:
Baird family. (creator)
Subject names:
Baird, William Martyn, b. 1897., Baird, Richard H. (Richard Hamilton), 1898-1995., Baird, Anna Landis Reist, 1895-1981., McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Taehan Yesugyo Changnohoe.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Yalu River (China and Korea)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg316
Description:
The Ballston Female Heathen School Society was founded in 1817 by fifty-seven women from the Ballston region of New York to support the work of the Princeton Theological Seminary and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions' (ABCFM) work in Brainerd, North Carolina and Ceylon. Its scope later broadened to include support for mission work in Beirut, Syria, Iran, and with Native Americans near Detroit. The collection includes the Society’s constitution, annual reports, a subscriber roll with contributions, acknowledgments of contributions, and correspondence from recipients of support. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Ballston Female Heathen School Society constitution, 1817.
Creator:
Ballston Female Heathen School Society.
Subject names:
Ballston Female Heathen School Society., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Princeton Theological Seminary.
Topics:
Women in missionary work., Women--Societies and clubs.
Geographic subjects:
Ballston (N.Y. : Town)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg422
Description:
This collection consists of materials digitized for use in Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers (BKBB), an archives-based learning project that brings students, educators, and student-support networks from Community College of Philadelphia together with the resources of the Presbyterian Historical Society. Learn more about how these digitized materials are used in the project and the Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers student exhibit. Support for BKBB has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Topics:
Study and teaching.--History, Archives and education., Libraries and education.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:bkbb
Description:
Christmas images from the Presbyterian Historical Society's collections.
Topics:
Christmas.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:christmas
Description:
History of Presbyterian and Reformed church governance, congregations, ministers, and theology. See the following related collections: Presbyterian General Assemblies; Church buildings; Protestant Reformation; and Sermons.
Featured image: Synod of Catawba clergy and lay commissioners.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--History., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--History., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--History., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--History., United Presbyterian Church of North America--History.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Government., Presbyterian Church--United States., Church architecture., Church buildings., Presbyterian church buildings., Presbyterian Church--Doctrines., Reformation--Early movements.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:churchhistory
Description:
History of Presbyterian and ecumenical involvement in civil rights movements, protests, and social justice issues, as well as individual social reformers and activists.
Featured image: Presbyterian peacemaking rally to freeze nuclear weapons, 1985.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations., Christianity and politics., Social justice--Religious aspects., Church and the world., Social reformers., Civil rights demonstrations., Race relations--Religious aspects., Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights movements., Civil rights workers.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:protest_reform
Description:
A collection of Presbyterian responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic, including sermons, worship services, and oral histories. See the following related collection: Easter COVID-19 collection.
Featured image: Oregon Trail Presbyterian Ministry (Marysville, Kan.) Easter worship video.
Topics:
COVID-19 (Disease)--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:pandemic
Description:
History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in domestic fields.
Featured image: Missionary Kate McBeth with the first Women's Missionary Society organized in Lapwai (present-day Idaho).
Topics:
Missionaries--United States., Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States., Home missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:domesticmissions
Description:
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, churches across the nation have shown themselves to be beacons of hope—providing food and social services, pastoral care, and online worship. The Presbyterian Historical Society has responded to this unprecedented moment by gathering 2020 Easter Sunday worship services and sermons from PC(USA) congregations and other worshiping communities. The COVID-19 collection is a curated selection of these contributions, including services from congregations in California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania -- including Arabic and Hakha Chin services from First Presbyterian Church (Allentown, Pa.) -- Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Topics:
COVID-19 (Disease)--United States., Easter sermons--United States--21st century., COVID-19--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:covid19
Description:
History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America.
Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.
Subject names:
Religious News Service., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., American and Foreign Christian Union., American Sunday-School Union., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Home Missions Council of North America., World Council of Churches.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Ecumenical movement.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:ecumenical
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Description:
History of Presbyterian-affiliated Sunday schools, mission schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, and educators. See the following related collections: Higher education; Church work with youth.
Featured image: Biology class at Knoxville College, ca. 1950.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Education., Education, Secondary., Education, Higher., Religious education., Junior colleges., Sunday schools., Presbyterian theological seminaries., Presbyterian vacation schools., African American schools., African Americans--Education., Religious educators., Presbyterian universities and colleges.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:education
Description:
History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields.
Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.
Topics:
Missionaries., Presbyterian Church--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:foreignmissions
Description:
In 1836, Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding, under appointment by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the Osage Indians, met Marcus Whitman and were persuaded to go to the Northwest as Presbyterian missionaries. The Spaldings and Whitmans made a hazardous six months journey, the wives being the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains. The Spaldings established a mission among the Nez Percé in the Lapwai Valley (present Idaho). They opened a school, set up the first printing press in the Northwest, and trained the Indians in farming. In 1847, they escaped the massacre which claimed the lives of the Whitmans. The collection consists of eight original letters by Henry and Eliza Spalding to family members. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Portrait of Henry Harmon Spalding by Matthew Brady, 1871.
Creator:
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874. (creator), Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851. (creator)
Subject names:
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Indians of North America--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:spalding
Description:
Katie Geneva Cannon was the first Black woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church. She was born in 1950 in the Fisher Town neighborhood of Kannapolis, N.C., one of the seven children of Corine and Esau Cannon. She graduated from Barber-Scotia College (Concord, N.C.), completed a Doctor of Divinity at Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, and was the first African American to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). She was ordained by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Catawba in 1974. A founding voice in Womanist theology, Cannon taught at Temple University, and Union Presbyterian Seminary (Richmond, Va.). In 2018 she founded the Center for Womanist Ethics at Union in Richmond; she died August 8, 2018. This collection represents in a single online location personal records of Katie's that she intended to distribute among Presbyterian Historical Society, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Featured image: Katie G. Cannon preaching, circa 1993.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (creator)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women., Womanist theology.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:kgc

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