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Title:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen Records
Description:
At the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, the General Assembly (PCUSA--Old School) appointed a Committee for Education of Freedmen, to establish churches and schools. At the 1870 reunion, this committee merged with the Freedmen's Department of the New School Committee of Home Missions; the new committee was named Committee of Missions for Freedmen. In 1883, the Freedmen's Committee was formally incorporated as the Board of Missions for Freedmen. The new board, like its predecessors, helped to educate and supply black teachers and preachers in the southern United States. It built and supported black schools, churches, colleges and seminaries and prescribed courses of study to be used. In 1923, the Freedmen's Board merged with other boards and agencies to become the Board of National Missions. This collection consists of the records of the Board of Missions for Freedmen and its predecessors. The collection includes annual reports, correspondence, minutes, and application books. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Committee on Freedmen first annual report, presented May 1866.
Start date:
1864
End date:
1972
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., Presbyterian Committee of Home Missions (U.S.). Freedmen's Dept., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Committee for Education of Freedmen., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Committee of Missions for Freedmen., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Unit of Work with Colored People., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Unit of Schools and Hospitals.
Topics:
Freedmen--Religious life., African Americans--Missions--Finance., Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg376
Title:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Korea Mission
Description:
Presbyterian mission work in Korea began in 1884 and was primarily medical and educational. Early mission work centered in Seoul and Pyengyang and eventually nine stations were established. Work was done in cooperation with several other denominations, including Methodists and Southern, Canadian, and Australian Presbyterians. This collection includes reports and field correspondence to the Church's mission board that reflect the mission's educational, medical, and evangelistic work. Also included are materials dealing with the Shrine Question, the Korean Conspiracy, and the Korean Independence Movement. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Presbyterian Hospital Outpatient Department Nurses' Training School Leper Hospital Taiku, Chosen (Korea), Japan, ca. 1925-6.
Start date:
1903
End date:
1972
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1948., Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg140
Title:
Vass Family Papers
Description:
Three generations of the Vass family served the Presbyterian Church in the United States and the Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vass III's wife (and daughter of medical missionary Eugene R. Kellersberger), Winifred Kellersberger (1917-2010), also served with her husband. This collection includes photographic prints, glass and film negatives, and lantern slides primarily documenting Vass II in the Congo, the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM), the S.S. Samuel N. Lapsley I and II, the Congo's indigenous villages and peoples, and Belgian atrocities. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: L.C. Vass and Mr. and Mrs. Crowley seated with birds, ca. 1898.
End date:
1999
Creator:
Vass, L. C. (Lachlan Cumming), 1831-1896. (creator), Vass, Lachlan Cumming, 1872-1962. (creator), Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010. (creator)
Subject names:
Vass, L. C. (Lachlan Cumming), 1831-1896., Vass, Lachlan C., 1915-2010., Vass, Lachlan Cumming, 1872-1962., Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Samuel N. Lapsley I (Ship), Samuel N. Lapsley II (Ship)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Presbyterian Church--Southern States--19th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Women missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Atrocities--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:vass
Title:
Video collection
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:video_collection
Title:
Web archives
Description:
In the summer of 2013, the Presbyterian Historical Society began a partnership with the Internet Archive through their Archive-It program to curate and collect PC(USA) Web sites. The archive contains national, synod, presbytery, and related ecumenical Web sites captured at various intervals.
Featured image: Web site of the Presbytery of the Northwest Coast.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:webarchives
Title:
William M. Baird Papers
Description:
The Rev. Dr. William M. Baird and his wife, Annie Laurie Adams 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, Baird was appointed president of the Pyengyang Academy and Union Christian College (also known as Sungsil Haktang and later Sungsil Taehak), a position that he held until his death in 1931. The William M. Baird Papers, 1885-1951 (bulk 1885-1931), consist of Baird's diaries, correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous items. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: First All-Korea Presbytery Meeting, 1907.
Start date:
1885
End date:
1951
Creator:
Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931. (creator)
Subject names:
Baird family., Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916., Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Pyengyang Academy., Sungsil Taehak (Seoul, Korea), Sungsil Haktang (Pʻyŏngyang, Korea)
Topics:
Universities and colleges--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Schools--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Pyongyang (Korea)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg173

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