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Title: American nun arrives in Hong Kong.
Description: Dressed in brown Carmelite robe and cloth Chinese shoes, both feet were bandaged. She was carried from her stateroom on back of Father Smith. She weighed less than 100 pounds. She tried to cover her face with handkerchiefs as photographers flashed away.
Creator Name(s): De Santerre, Daniele. (photographer)
Date Created: 1955
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Daughters of Charity of Canossa., Carmelite Nuns.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--China., Women missionaries--China., Communism--China., Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., Hong Kong., China., Asia--China--Hong Kong
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 55, image no. C-18182; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-18182
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:149859

Title: Chinese Reds free women missionaries.
Description: Dorothy May Middleton and Sarah Lee Perkins read letters and cables from friends after their release from Communist China.
Date Created: 1955, ca. 1955
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., American Mission to Lepers., Middleton, Dorothy May., Perkins, Sarah Lee.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--China., Women missionaries--China., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Women political prisoners--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects: , , , , , , , , , , , , China., , , China., , , China., , , China., , , China., , China., , , , Hong Kong., China., , , Asia--China--------Hong Kong------, Asia--China----------
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 55, image no. P-18162; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-18162
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148328

Title: Learning to read.
Description: Text transcribed from caption on reverse: Learning to read and write the Chinese character in a primary school, West China.
Creator Name(s): Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions., 1919- (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Missions--China.
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Educational work--China., Literacy--China., Chinese language--Writing., Chinese language--Study and teaching--China.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 1786; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_1786
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358622

Title: Missionaries in China.
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Missions--China., Missionaries--China., Children--China.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 3182; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_3182
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359051

Title: North China.
Description: Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 4161 NORTH CHINA [4] A Gospel meeting held by three colporteurs.
Creator Name(s): American Bible Society. (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., American Bible Society.
Topical Subject(s): Bible. Gospels., Religious literature--Distribution--Societies, etc., Religious literature--Distribution--China., Christian converts--China., Missionaries--China., Bible--Study and teaching--China., Bible. New Testament.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 4161; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_4161
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359795

Title: North China.
Description: Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 4160 NORTH CHINA [3] Colporteur of the American Bible Society.
Creator Name(s): American Bible Society. (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., American Bible Society.
Topical Subject(s): Bible. Gospels., Religious literature--Distribution--Societies, etc., Religious literature--Distribution--China., Christian converts--China., Missionaries--China., Bible. New Testament.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 4160; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_4160
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359794

Title: North China.
Description: Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 4158 NORTH CHINA [2] F. K. Kang [?] of the A. B. S. [American Bible Society] tells the Gospel story.
Creator Name(s): American Bible Society. (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., American Bible Society., Kang, F. K.
Topical Subject(s): Bible. Gospels., Missionaries--China., Christian converts--China., Bible--Study and teaching--China.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 4158; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_4158
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359793

Title: North China.
Description: Text transcribed from caption on reverse: 4157 NORTH CHINA [1] Mission, Bible women. Missionary spreading the Gospel.
Creator Name(s): American Bible Society. (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., American Bible Society.
Topical Subject(s): Bible. Gospels., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries--China., Christian converts--China., Bible--Study and teaching--China.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 4157; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_4157
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359792

Title: Religion plays vital part in China’s struggle.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: 3734 RELIGION PLAYS VITAL PART IN CHINA’S STRUGGLE [2] China, longer at war than any of the other Allied nations, is making the steady trek back from the dismal years of struggle. The Christian Church, always faced with gigantic tasks in the ancient land, is again showing the way. Here a modern primary school is being held in an old temple in West China. (One of a series) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MP-NY-MES-6B-6-MISS)
Creator Name(s): Methodist Prints. (photographer)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Christian converts--China., Missions--China., Elementary schools--China., School children--China., Church schools--China., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--China.
Geographic subjects: China., China., China., China., China., China., China., Asia--China
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 3734; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_3734
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359707

Title: Nuns return to China.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #C-4541 NUNS RETURN TO CHINA MILWAUKEE -- Undismayed by the horror of their experiences as prisoners in a Japanese concentration camp, three veteran missionaries, sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi, check their baggage at the rail depot here before entraining for the West Coast enroute to China. Their smiles indicate an eagerness to return to their charitable labors and to renew past acquaintances in the Orient. Sister Mary Veronica (left), of Sun Prairie Wisc., has spent 12 years in China; Sister Mary Ludmilla, of Chicago, nine years; Sister Mary Charitas, of Sublette, Ill., six years. Following their release from imprisonment the sisters recuperated at their Motherhouse in St. Francis, Wisc. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (D-H-MIL-WIS-BS-9D6-0)
Creator Name(s): Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi (Saint Francis, Wis.)
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--China., Nuns--Wisconsin--Milwaukee., Women missionaries--China., Ex-internment camp inmates--Japan.
Geographic subjects: China., Wisconsin, Milwaukee., China., Japan., Milwaukee (Wis.), China., North and Central America--United States--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Milwaukee
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-4541; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-4541
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:360310

Title: Nuns return to China.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (author)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi (Saint Francis, Wis.)
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--China., Nuns--Wisconsin--Milwaukee., Women missionaries--China., Ex-internment camp inmates--Japan.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-4541; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-4541_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:360213

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