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Title:
Support Agency Photographs
Description:
This collection consists of photographs from the Board of National Missions and its predecessor agencies used to document and promote the various missions carried out by the Board. Some of the images were used in brochures, exhibits, filmstrips, newsletters, and slide sets. Images represent schools, hospitals, community and neighborhood centers, mission and non-mission churches, missionaries and mission workers, and general assemblies. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Portland Oregon lumber camp, 1922.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Educational Work., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Unit of Visual Aids., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Office of Visual Aids., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Pictorial works., Home missions--United States--Pictorial works., Church buildings--United States--Pictorial works.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg303
Title:
Tehran Community School
Description:
Community School was a Presbyterian boarding school in Tehran, Iran, from 1935 to 1980. What began as a school for “mish kids” (the children of Presbyterian missionaries) eventually enrolled Americans of all backgrounds; English-speaking students of dozens of nationalities and different faiths; and, of course, Iranians, who constituted most of the student body by the 1960s. The faculty and staff were just as diverse. At its height in the 1970s, some 1,500 students attended Community School each year. This collection includes oral histories with alumni and faculty who attended the school as well as photographs and floor plans. Featured image: Southwest view of Tehran Community School.
Subject names:
Community School (Tehran, Iran)
Topics:
Community schools--Iran--Tehran., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:tehran_community_school
Title:
Thomas Kirkpatrick Papers
Description:
Thomas LeRoy Kirkpatrick was a Presbyterian missionary to Iran and a United States Navy chaplain. He was appointed to the PCUSA West Persia Mission, sailing for Tabriz in 1911. Kirkpatrick undertook evangelistic work in Tabriz and Urumiyah and traveled in present-day Armenia and Azerbaijan and elsewhere in the Caucasus. He remained in Iran until 1915. From 1918 to 1941 he served as a United States Navy chaplain. Kirkpatrick died on the USS Arizona in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. This collection includes Kirkpatrick's photographs of Iran.
Featured image: Thomas Kirkpatrick photograph album, no. 2, North West view from Ark, ca. 1911-1914.
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Thomas LeRoy, 1887-1941. (photographer)
Subject names:
Kirkpatrick, Thomas LeRoy, 1887-1941--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Iran., Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:tlkirkpatrick
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:
Wars
Description:
Presbyterian involvement in wars from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War.
Featured image: James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield by Henry Alexander Ogden.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953., War., War and society., Chaplains., Vietnam War, 1961-1975., World War, 1914-1918., World War, 1939-1945., War--Religious aspects
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:war
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 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
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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