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Title: Ambulance -- African style.
Description: A litter strapped to two bicycles served as an ambulance for this Africa emergency patient being examined by Sister Marian Jan, a physician at Tanzania's Kowak Hospital, operated by the Maryknoll nuns.
Creator Name(s): Maryknoll Sisters. (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, May 29, 1965, May 29, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Jan, Marian, Sister., Kowak Hospital (Tanzania)
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--Tanzania., Women physicians--Tanzania., Missions, Medical--Tanzania.
Geographic subjects: Tanzania., Tanzania., Tanzania., Tanzania., Africa--Tanzania
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. C-32634; 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-32634
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151672

Title: Background information for any Maryknoll Sister's story.
Date Created: 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Maryknoll Sisters--Tanzania.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns., Women missionaries.
Geographic subjects: Tanzania., Tanzania., Africa--Tanzania
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. C-32634; 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-32634_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:150713

Title: Sisters board plane for Africa.
Description: Further information about photo of four Maryknoll Sisters boarding a plane to Tanganyika to begin their mission work.
Creator Name(s): American Export Airlines. (publisher)
Date Created: 1948, ca. 1948
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Maryknoll Sisters., American Export Airlines., Catholic Church--Missions--Tanganyika., Cannon, Stanislaus., Winkelmann, Margaret Rose., Bowes, Catherine Maureen., Kirsch, Michel.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--New York (State)--New York., Nuns as teachers--New York (State)--New York., Women missionaries--Tanganyika.
Geographic subjects: , , , , Tanganyika., , , , , , , , New York (State), New York., , New York (State), , , , , , Tanganyika., , , , , , , , , New York (N.Y.), Tanganyika., , , North and Central America--United States--------New York--New York----, Africa--Tanzania----------
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 18A, image no. C-8001; 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-8001_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:149240

Title: Sisters board plane for Africa.
Description: Four MaryKnoll Sisters board a plane to Tanganyika to begin their mission work.
Creator Name(s): American Export Airlines. (publisher)
Date Created: 1948, ca. 1948
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Maryknoll Sisters., American Export Airlines., Catholic Church--Missions--Tanganyika., Cannon, Stanislaus., Winkelmann, Margaret Rose., Bowes, Catherine Maureen., Kirsch, Michel.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--New York (State)--New York., Nuns as teachers--New York (State)--New York., Women missionaries--Tanganyika.
Geographic subjects: Tanganyika., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., Tanganyika., New York (N.Y.), Tanganyika., North and Central America--United States--New York--New York, Africa--Tanzania
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 18A, image no. C-8001; 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-8001
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148406

Title: Cotton pickin' padre.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. (author)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Wymes, John F., Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America., Catholic Church--Missions--Tanzania--Musoma.
Topical Subject(s): Cotton picking--Tanzania--Musoma., Missionaries--Tanzania--Musoma., Families--Tanzania--Musoma.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30584; 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-30584_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353639

Title: Tanganyika's 'Cotton Padre' at work.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-30584 TANGANYIKA'S 'COTTON PADRE' AT WORK MUSOMA, Tanganyika -- Father John F. Wymes, a Maryknoll missionary from the Bronx, N.Y., lives up to his nickname of "Pamba Padri" -- or "Cotton Padre" -- by helping a family sort cotton near his mission at Mussonga, Tanganyika. Concerned for both the spiritual and social welfare of his people, the priest has become an expert in cotton and knows that a good crop means decent food and improved living conditions for his parishioners. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MM-NY-2B-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Wymes, John F., Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America., Catholic Church--Missions--Tanzania--Musoma.
Topical Subject(s): Cotton picking--Tanzania--Musoma., Missionaries--Tanzania--Musoma., Families--Tanzania--Musoma.
Geographic subjects: Tanzania, Musoma., Tanzania, Musoma., Tanzania, Musoma., Musoma (Tanzania), Africa--Tanzania--Mara Region--Musoma
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-30584; 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-30584
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353714

Title: The 'three little wise men.'
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-31922 THE ‘THREE LITTLE WISE MEN’ NEW YORK -- These African children are commemorating the Feast of the Epiphany (Jan. 6) by re-enacting the visit of the Three Wise Men to the Infant Jesus. They are members of the Maryknoll mission parish in Tanzania, formerly Tanganyika. An African -- Gaspar -- was one of the Three Magi who went to Bethlehem to see the new-born Christ. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-12C-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America., Catholic Church--Missions--Tanzania.
Topical Subject(s): Children--Tanzania., Epiphany--Tanzania., Magi., Children, Black--Tanzania., Missions--Tanzania.
Geographic subjects: Tanzania., Tanzania., Tanzania., Tanzania., Tanzania., Africa--Tanzania
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-31922; 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-31922
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356594

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