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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: School named for heroic Maryknoll bishop.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (author)
Date Created: 1964, April 6, 1964, April 6, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)--Students., Catholic Church., Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America., Meyer, Bernard Fr., 1891-, Catholic Church. Diocese of Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Ford, Francis Xavier, 1892-1952.
Topical Subject(s): High school students--New York (State)--New York., Mosaics--New York (State)--New York., High school boys--New York (State)--New York., Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism and Christianity--China., Missionaries--China., Martyrs--China.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. C-30844; 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-30844_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348673

Title: School named for heroic Maryknoll bishop.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-30844 SCHOOL NAMED FOR HEROIC MARYKNOLL BISHOP BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Honors for a Maryknoll pioneer in the Chinese mission field. The Bishop Francis X. Ford High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., is named for the heroic missionary who died in a Communist prison camp in 1952. This mural of Bishop Ford is shown to school students by Father Bernard F. Meyer, M.M., one of the first four Maryknollers to go to the mission field. In 1918 he accompanied Bishop Ford; Bishop James Edward Walsh, now imprisoned in Red China; and the late Father Thomas F. Price to China. All were priests at the time of their first mission assignment. Father Meyer is currently stationed at Maryknoll headquarters, Maryknoll, N.Y. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-NY-4B-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 6, 1964, April 6, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)--Students., Catholic Church., Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America., Meyer, Bernard Fr., 1891-, Catholic Church. Diocese of Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Ford, Francis Xavier, 1892-1952.
Topical Subject(s): High school students--New York (State)--New York., Mosaics--New York (State)--New York., High school boys--New York (State)--New York., Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism and Christianity--China., Missionaries--China., Martyrs--China.
Geographic subjects: New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., China., China., China., Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. C-30844; 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-30844
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348352

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: 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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