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Title: Children riding a donkey to Sunday school.
Description: Illustrating the way they go to Sunday school sometimes in the mountains. No reserved seats.
Date Created: ca. 1923, 1923
Name Subject(s): Schureman, William H., 1853-1941.
Topical Subject(s): Sunday schools--Colorado., Sunday schools--Wyoming., Donkeys.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States, Colorado., Wyoming.
Physical Location: Slides A44 (44); Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Related Item: William H. Schureman lantern lecture [slide].--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1830
Identifier (local): ds4691
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:143

Title: Lumberjack Missionary.
Date Created: 1910, ca. 1910s-1930s
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Missions--Pacific Coast (America)--20th century., Home missions--Pacific Coast (America)--20th century., Missionaries--Pacific Coast (America)--20th century., Church work with loggers--Pacific Coast (America)--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Pacific Coast (America), 20th century., Pacific Coast (America), 20th century., Pacific Coast (America), 20th century., Pacific Coast (America), 20th century., Pacific Coast (America), North and Central America--United States--Pacific Coast
Physical Location: RG 303, Box 15, Folder 7; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency Photographs, ca. 1870-ca. 1982.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-303
Identifier (local): rg303_b15_f7-2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:140309

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: Manzanar Japanese Relocation Center.
Description: The Japanese Relocation Center in Manzanar, CA.
Creator Name(s): Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Date Created: 1942, circa 1942-1945
Name Subject(s): Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topical Subject(s): Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects: Manzanar (Calif.), North and Central America--United States--California--Inyo--Manzanar
Physical Location: RG 427, Box 3, Folder 3; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sarah Clarke Oltmans Papers, ca. 1889-1991.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-427
Identifier (local): ds6370
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:146378

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