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Title: Sheldon Jackson students.
Description: Text transcribed from accompanying script: At night, in the dormitories of Sheldon Jackson, prayers are said before the lights go out. Each day ends on a spiritual note, testifying to the fact that the good citizens of Alaska's tomorrow must learn to be good Christians today.
Creator Name(s): Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1948
Name Subject(s): Sheldon Jackson College (Sitka, Alaska)
Topical Subject(s): Universities and colleges--Alaska--Sitka., Home missions--Alaska--Sitka., College students--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Sitka., Alaska, Sitka., Sitka (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Sitka--Sitka, Alaska, Sitka.
Physical Location: KIT 35; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Our last frontier [presented by] the Board of National Missions Filmstrip.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=35870
Identifier (local): ds1131
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:5449

Title: Our Last Frontier -- Haines House.
Description: Text transcribed from accompanying script: Presbyterians look with particular affection at Haines House -- the only home which many native children have ever known.
Creator Name(s): Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1948
Topical Subject(s): Orphanages--Alaska--Haines., Home missions--Alaska--Haines.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Haines., Alaska, Haines., Haines (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Haines--Haines
Physical Location: KIT 35; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Our last frontier [filmstrip] / [presented by] the Board of National Missions.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=35870
Identifier (local): ds1130
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:5464

Title: Woman speaking into microphone.
Description: Woman speaking into microphone.
Creator Name(s): Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1959
Name Subject(s): KSEW (Radio station : Sitka, Alaska), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Radio in religion--Alaska--Sitka., Home missions--Alaska--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Sitka (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Sitka
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 2, Folder 44; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4293
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8652

Title: The Cowboy's Hitchin' Post.
Description: [Left to right] R. Everett King, Ralph Hall, and Joe Evans reenact their 1940 meeting in Del Rorte Hotel in El Paso to arrange for the first cowboy camp meeting at Montosa for the film "The Cowboy's Hitchin' Post," July 1946.
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1946, July 1946
Name Subject(s): Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Evans, Joe M., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Camp meetings--New Mexico--Montosa--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Montosa (N.M.), North and Central America--United States--New Mexico--Montosa
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 17; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4018
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8333

Title: Rev. Herbert M. Peters.
Description: [Rev. Herbert M. Peters, S.S. Missionary, giving a Bible to lumberjack in north woods of Minnesota. Stamped on back: "Property of Audio Visual Aids Department Room 831, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N.Y."]
Creator Name(s): Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1951, ca. 1951-1952
Name Subject(s): Peters, Herbert M., 1904-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--Minnesota--20th century., Church work with loggers--Minnesota--20th century., Missionaries--Minnesota--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Minnesota., North and Central America--United States--Minnesota
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 39; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4099
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8355

Title: Henry H. Spalding's printing press.
Description: [Henry H. Spalding's printing press.]
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: ca. 1936, 1936
Topical Subject(s): Lapwai Mission Press., Printing--Northwest, Pacific--History--19th century.
Physical Location: SLIDES A37 (15); Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Wagon wheels west [slide]--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1814
Identifier (local): ds3499
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:9949

Title: Map of Marcus Whitman's journey west.
Description: [Map of Marcus Whitman's journey west.]
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: ca. 1836-1847, 1836
Name Subject(s): Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topical Subject(s): Overland journeys to the Pacific., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century--Maps., Missions--Oregon Territory--Maps.
Geographic subjects: Northwest, Pacific--Maps., Oregon Territory--Maps., North and Central America--United States--Oregon--Washington
Physical Location: SLIDES A37 (10); Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Wagon wheels west [slide]--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1814
Identifier (local): ds3501
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7709

Title: Narcissa Prentiss Whitman.
Description: [Portrait of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman.] From "Wagon wheels west [slide]," the story of the Whitman-Spalding Mission in the Oregon territory, 1936.
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: ca. 1936, 1936
Name Subject(s): Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847--Portraits.
Topical Subject(s): Women missionaries--Oregon Territory., Women missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Physical Location: SLIDES A37 (17); Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Wagon wheels west [slide]--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1814
Identifier (local): ds3500
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7640

Title: Rev. and Mrs. W. Theodore Allison.
Description: A send-off from Mrs. Allison starts the day for Rev. W. Theodore Allison, who carries on a mobile ministry among uranium workers near Grants, New Mexico. Like the people they serve, the Allisons live in a mobile home, 10 x 50 feet, use the back bedroom as a pastor's study.
Creator Name(s): Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960
Name Subject(s): Allison, Winthrop Theodore, 1900-1979., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--New Mexico--Grants--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--Frants--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Grants (N.M.), North and Central America--United States--New Mexico--Grants
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 62; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4295
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8866

Title: Group of families at Byron.
Description: Group of families at Byron, an oil-producing town, meet in the home of a member for an evening worship service led by Ray and Nancianna [Nott].
Creator Name(s): Karsch, Carl G. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960
Name Subject(s): Nott, Raymond Alfred, 1922-2006., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--Wyoming--20th century., Missionaries--Wyoming--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Wyoming., North and Central America--United States--Wyoming--Byron
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 51; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4297
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8568

Title: Frank Higgins, the sky pilot.
Description: [Frank Higgins, the sky pilot.]
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1909, July 1909
Name Subject(s): Higgins, Frank E. (Francis Edmund), 1865-1915., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church work with loggers--20th century.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 06-0331b; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions Records, 1730-1930.
Identifier (local): ds4021
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8435

Title: Our Last Frontier -- Gold Mining Dredge.
Description: And today, gold is still mined at Fairbanks -- though machines like this six-story dredge have replaced the pan of the gold rush.
Creator Name(s): Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1948
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--Alaska--Fairbanks., Gold mines and mining--Alaska--Fairbanks.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Fairbanks., Alaska, Fairbanks (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Fairbanks--Fairbanks North Star, Alaska, Fairbanks.
Physical Location: KIT 35; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Our last frontier [presented by] the Board of National Missions Filmstrip.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=35870
Identifier (local): ds1133
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:5203

Title: Ralph Hall and others discuss Magdalena church.
Description: Group of 6 discussing possibility of a permanent church at Magdalena (which has since become a reality). Ralph Hall is third from right.
Creator Name(s): Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Church buildings--New Mexico--Magdalena--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Magdalena (N.M.), North and Central America--United States--New Mexico--Magdalena
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 16; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4119
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8381

Title: Cowboy camp meeting.
Description: [Men gathered under prayer tree during a Montosa, New Mexico camp meeting.]
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Camp meetings--New Mexico--Montosa--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Montosa (N.M.), North and Central America--United States--New Mexico--Montosa
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 18; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4016
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8378

Title: Our Last Frontier -- Princeton Hall.
Description: Text transcribed from accompanying script: The Presbyterians are proud of their territorial "Navy" -- the Princeton Hall, shown here, and the S.J.S. II. These boats are used for evangelistic work and transportation to church conferences.
Creator Name(s): Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1948
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--Alaska., Boats and boating in missionary work--Alaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., Alaska., North and Central America--United States--Alaska, Alaska.
Physical Location: KIT 35; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Our last frontier [filmstrip] / [presented by] the Board of National Missions.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=35870
Identifier (local): ds1132
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:5526

Title: Rev. and Mrs. Herbert M. Peters.
Description: [Sunday school missionaries, Rev. and Mrs. Herbert M. Peters, sort clothes to be given to families of needy lumberjacks, Tamarack, Minnesota.]
Creator Name(s): Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1952, July 1952
Name Subject(s): Peters, Herbert M., 1904-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--Minnesota--20th century., Church work with loggers--Minnesota--20th century., Missionaries--Minnesota--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Minnesota., North and Central America--United States--Minnesota--Tamarack
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 39; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4097
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8436

Title: Herbert M. Peters taking preparing for services.
Description: [Herbert M. Peters taking equipment from car and preparing to hold services in bunk house of Lumber Camp No. 1 of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company, located in the North woods of Minnesota, about 150 miles from Tamarack. Stamped on back: "Property of Audio Visual Aids Department Room 831, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N.Y."]
Creator Name(s): Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1951
Name Subject(s): Peters, Herbert M., 1904-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Home missions--Minnesota--20th century., Church work with loggers--Minnesota--20th century., Missionaries--Minnesota--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Minnesota., North and Central America--United States--Minnesota
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 39; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4096
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8374

Title: Cowboy camp meeting.
Description: [Men gathered under prayer tree during a Montosa, New Mexico camp meeting.]
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Camp meetings--New Mexico--Montosa--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Montosa (N.M.), North and Central America--United States--New Mexico--Montosa
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 18; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4017
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8297

Title: Henry Harmon Spalding.
Description: [Portrait of Henry Harmon Spalding.] From "Wagon wheels west [slide]," the story of the Whitman-Spalding Mission in the Oregon territory, 1936.
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: ca. 1848-1874, 1848
Name Subject(s): Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Physical Location: SLIDES A37 (11); Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Wagon wheels west [slide]--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1814
Identifier (local): ds3502
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8026

Title: Ray Nott gets acquainted with employees of L-U ranch.
Description: Ray Nott (center, wearing jacket) gets acquainted with employees of L-U ranch, one of the largest in his parish. Scene of this picture is ranch's commissary. From this store, foodstuffs are taken to dozens of herders scattered around the thousands of acres of range land. Ray finds the men eager to talk about their problems, since they have little opportunity to visit with persons beyond their own small number of employees. Later, he held a worship service for ranch people at a school nearby.
Creator Name(s): Karsch, Carl G. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960
Name Subject(s): Nott, Raymond Alfred, 1922-2006., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with cowboys--Wyoming--20th century., Home missions--Wyoming--20th century., Missionaries--Wyoming--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Wyoming., North and Central America--United States--Wyoming
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 10, Folder 51; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): ds4296
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8730

Title: At Work Among the American Indians.
Description: Reprinted from the Second Annual Report of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. in 1925.
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Date Created: 1925
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Mission Development--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Home missions--United States., Indigenous peoples--Missions--United States., Indigenous peoples--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., United States., United States, 20th century., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 301.7, Box 5, Folder 35; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions Dept. of Mission Development Records, 1871-1974.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-3017
Identifier (local): rg301-7_b5_f35a
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:344131

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