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Title:
Carroll R. Stegall Papers
Description:
Carroll R. Stegall (1891-1965) was a missionary for the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. He worked at the Luebo and Lubondai mission stations in the Congo from 1915 to 1950. This collection consists of negatives and photographs of native people, missionaries, and the radio equipment Stegall used at Luebo in the 1930s. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Carroll R. Stegall with radio equipment.
Creator:
Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965. (creator)
Subject names:
Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:crstegall
Title:
Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Photographs
Description:

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.

URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg223
Title:
Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers
Description:
Eugene R. Kellersberger (1888-1966) was a medical missionary to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) and General Secretary of the American Mission to Lepers. This collection includes photographic materials related to Dr. Kellersberger's time as a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo and to his 1946 world and 1947-1948 Far East tours. His Africa photograph album contains over 2,000 items, and it primarily spans the years from the 1920's to 1940. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Eugene Kellersberger and pet monkey, ca. 1925.
Start date:
1909
End date:
1998
Creator:
Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966. (creator)
Subject names:
Kellersberger family., Kellersberger, Edna Bosche, 1888-1923., Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966., Kellersberger, Julia Lake Skinner, 1897-1986., Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010.
Topics:
African trypanosomiasis., Leprosy., Leprosy--Hospitals--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions to leprosy patients., Tropical medicine--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:erkellersberger
Title:
Religious News Service Photographs
Description:
Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
Catholic Church--History--20th century., National Conference of Christians and Jews., Orthodox Eastern Church--History--20th century., Religious News Service.
Topics:
Catholics--History--20th century., Foreign news--History--United States--20th century., Jews--History--20th century., Journalism, Religious--History--20th century., Judaism--History--20th century., Protestantism--History--20th century., Protestants--History--20th century., Religion--Photographs., Religion and politics--History--20th century., Religion and sociology--History--20th century., Religion and international relations--History--20th century., Religious institutions--History--20th century., Religious leaders., Social movements--Religious aspects--History--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Social policy--20th century., United States--Politics and government--20th century., United States--Religion--20th century., United States--Social conditions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rns
Title:
William H. Sheppard Papers
Description:
William H. Sheppard was a Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Congo for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions, 1890-1910. Sheppard was one of the earliest African-American foreign missionaries for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. He and his wife, Lucy Gantt Sheppard, were stationed at Luebo and later at Ibanche. Collection consists primarily of photograph albums and photographs. Photographs document mission stations and churches at Luebo and Ibanche; the Sheppard family; other Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries; and native people of the Bateke, Baluba, Bakuba, Zappo Zap, and other tribes. The collection includes a small number of papers, including correspondence; Sheppard's reminiscences of his time at the Stillman Institute in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; a pamphlet entitled "How Sheppard Made His Way into Lukenga's Kingdom"; printed materials about the Congo and King Leopold; hymnbooks in Tshiluba and an unidentified language; and glass and nitrate negatives. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Sheppard with his mother.
Creator:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927. (creator)
Subject names:
Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., Sheppard, Lucy J. Gantt, 1867-1955., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions., Stillman Institute (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Topics:
Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:whsheppard

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