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Title: Missionaries with African natives.
Description: [Missionaries with African natives.]
Date Created: ca. 1925-1945, 1925
Name Subject(s): Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missionaries--20th century., Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 360, Series IV; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Carroll Richard Stegall (d. 1965) Foreign Missionary Vertical File.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=ZWQ4ZGUwNWUtOWNhNC00Zjg0LTk4MjgtNmI0MGYzZTE5ZTk4&rID=Njk3Nw==
Identifier (local): ds2280
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:6710

Title: Missionary conference, Leopoldville.
Description: Missionary conference, Leopoldville, January.
Date Created: 1904, January 1904
Name Subject(s): Vass (Family : Vass, L. C. (Lachlan Cumming), 1831-1896)
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century., Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 476, Box 6, Album p. 3; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Vass Family Papers, ca. 1860s-1999.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-476
Identifier (local): ds3337
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7328

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.
Creator Name(s): Vass, L. C. (Lachlan Cumming), 1831-1896. (creator), Vass, Lachlan Cumming, 1872-1962. (creator), Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010. (creator)
Date Created: 1860, ca. 1860s-1999, 1860, 1999
Name Subject(s): 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)
Topical Subject(s): 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), 20th century., Southern States, 19th century., Congo (Democratic Republic), 20th century., Congo (Democratic Republic), 20th century., Congo (Democratic Republic), Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic)
Physical Location: RG 476; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Vass Family Papers, circa 1860s-1999.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-476
Identifier (local): rg476
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:vass

Title: Luebo Christmas pageant.
Description: [Luebo Christmas pageant.]
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960s
Name Subject(s): Vass family--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Christmas--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Luebo--20th century., Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century., Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 476, Box 35, Folder 13; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Vass Family Papers, ca. 1860s-1999.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-476
Identifier (local): ds3948
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7808

Title: Luebo Christmas pageant.
Description: [Luebo Christmas pageant.]
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960s
Name Subject(s): Vass family--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Christmas--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Luebo--20th century., Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century., Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 476, Box 35, Folder 13; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Vass Family Papers, ca. 1860s-1999.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-476
Identifier (local): ds3947
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7566

Title: Edmiston family.
Description: Mr. & Mrs. Edmiston and oldest boy [Althea Brown Edmiston, Alonzo L. Edmiston and Sherman Edmiston]
Date Created: 1914
Name Subject(s): Edmiston, A. L. (Alonzo Lmore), 1879-1954--Archives., Edmiston, Althea Brown, 1874-1937., Edmiston, A. L. (Alonzo Lmore), 1879-1954--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Women missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century., Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 495, Box 6, Folder 45; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: A.L. Edmiston Papers, 1908-1975.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-495
Identifier (local): ds1586
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:5923

Title: Christmas photo card, Luebo.
Description: Merry Christmas to you and yours. [Christmas photo card, Luebo, undated -- sent to Winnie from Florence.]
Date Created: ca. 1960s, 1960
Name Subject(s): Vass family--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Christmas--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Luebo--20th century., Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions., Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 476, Box 35, Folder 13; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Vass Family Papers, ca. 1860s-1999.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-476
Identifier (local): ds3946
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7944

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