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Title: Presentation of Mother Joseph statue slated at Capitol.
Description: Sculptor Felix de Weldon puts the finishing touches on his statue of Mother Joseph, a Sister of Providence. The statue will be placed in Statuary Hall Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 1, 1980 at 4 p.m. Mr. de Weldon is best known for his U.S. Marine Corps memorial: "The Flag Raising on Iwo Jima."
Date Created: 1980, April 1980
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Sisters of Charity of Providence., De Weldon, Felix, 1907-2003.
Topical Subject(s): Women missionaries--Northwest, Pacific., Bronze sculpture--20th century., Bronze sculpture, American., Sculptors--United States.
Geographic subjects: , , , , , , , , , , , , Northwest, Pacific., , , , , 20th century., , , , United States., , , , , , , , , Washington (D.C.), Northwest, Pacific., , , North and Central America--United States--------District of Columbia--Washington----, ------------
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52, image no. C-53553; 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-53553
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148277

Title: Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Photographs
Description: The PCUSA's Board of Foreign Missions was organized in 1837 to convey the Gospel throughout the "heathen and anti-Christian world." This collection documents the Board of Foreign Mission's work through photographs, glass slides, and negatives. Subjects depicted include missionaries, mission stations, educational institutions, churches, medical facilities, projects and certain prominent events. The bulk of the collection is from the twentieth century.

Featured image: Korean conspiracy trial prisoners.
Physical Location: RG 223; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): rg223
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:rg223

Title: Special feast day: St. Catherine of Siena (April 30)
Description: This reproduction of an old painting depicts St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), patroness of Italy, giving clothes to Christ.
Date Created: 1980, ca. April 30, 1980
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., Jesus Christ, Art.
Topical Subject(s): Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church., Christian women saints--Cult., Christian saints in art.
Geographic subjects: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ----------------, ------------
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52, image no. C-53541; 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-53541
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148337

Title: May: month of Mary.
Description: Photograph of "The Coronation of the Virgin" by Diego Velázquez. Religious News Service file includes original folder dated December 23, 1954 and numbered 7003.
Date Created: 1980
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Museo del Prado., Catholic Church.
Topical Subject(s): Religious art--Spain--Madrid., Photography of painting.
Geographic subjects: , , , , , , , , , , Spain, Madrid., Spain, Madrid., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Madrid (Spain), , , , Europe--Spain--------Comunidad de Madrid--Madrid----, ------------
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52, image no. C-53530; 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-53530
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148298

Title: Carroll R. Stegall Papers
Description: Carroll R. Stegall (1891-1965) was a missionary for the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. He worked at the Luebo and Lubondai mission stations in the Congo from 1915 to 1950. This collection consists of negatives and photographs of native people, missionaries, and the radio equipment Stegall used at Luebo in the 1930s. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Carroll R. Stegall with radio equipment.
Creator Name(s): Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965. (creator)
Date Created: 1905, ca. 1905-1965, 1905, 1965
Name Subject(s): Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo--Kasaï-Occidental--Luebo, Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo--Kasaï-Occidental--Lubondaye
Physical Location: RG 454; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Carroll R. Stegall Papers, circa 1905-1965.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-454
Identifier (local): rg454
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:crstegall

Title: William H. Sheppard Papers
Description: William H. Sheppard was a Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Congo for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions, 1890-1910. Sheppard was one of the earliest African-American foreign missionaries for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. He and his wife, Lucy Gantt Sheppard, were stationed at Luebo and later at Ibanche. Collection consists primarily of photograph albums and photographs. Photographs document mission stations and churches at Luebo and Ibanche; the Sheppard family; other Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries; and native people of the Bateke, Baluba, Bakuba, Zappo Zap, and other tribes. The collection includes a small number of papers, including correspondence; Sheppard's reminiscences of his time at the Stillman Institute in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; a pamphlet entitled "How Sheppard Made His Way into Lukenga's Kingdom"; printed materials about the Congo and King Leopold; hymnbooks in Tshiluba and an unidentified language; and glass and nitrate negatives. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Sheppard with his mother.
Creator Name(s): Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927. (creator)
Name Subject(s): Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., Sheppard, Lucy J. Gantt, 1867-1955., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions., Stillman Institute (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Topical Subject(s): Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 457; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: William H. Sheppard Papers, 1875-1933.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-457
Identifier (local): rg457
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:whsheppard

Title: Charismatic movement enters new phase, becoming more integrated into churches.
Description: Charismatics at an earlier renewal meeting in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., speak in tongues.
Date Created: 1980
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Pentecostalism--New York (State)--Hopewell Junction., Pentecostals--New York (State)--Hopewell Junction., Glossolalia--New York (State)--Hopewell Junction.
Geographic subjects: , , , , , , , , , , , , New York (State), Hopewell Junction., , New York (State), , , New York (State), Hopewell Junction., , , , , , , , , , , Hopewell Junction (N.Y.), , , , North and Central America--United States------Dutchess--New York--Hopewell Junction----, ------------
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52, image no. PC-53570; 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_PC-53570
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148547

Title: ADL warns of likely KKK violence during summer.
Description: The Ku Klux Klan marches during a recent summer's rally in Davie, Florida.
Date Created: 1979, ca. summer 1979
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Suall, Irwin.
Topical Subject(s): White nationalism--United States., Hate groups--United States.
Geographic subjects: , , , , , , , , , , , , United States., , , United States., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Davie (Fla.), New York (N.Y.), , , North and Central America--United States------Broward--Florida--Davie----, North and Central America--United States--------New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52A, image no. J-53607; 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_J-53607
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148571

Title: Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers
Description: Eugene R. Kellersberger (1888-1966) was a medical missionary to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) and General Secretary of the American Mission to Lepers. This collection includes photographic materials related to Dr. Kellersberger's time as a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo and to his 1946 world and 1947-1948 Far East tours. His Africa photograph album contains over 2,000 items, and it primarily spans the years from the 1920's to 1940. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Eugene Kellersberger and pet monkey, ca. 1925.
Creator Name(s): Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966. (creator)
Date Created: 1909, 1909-1998, 1909, 1998, 1909-1998
Name Subject(s): Kellersberger family., Kellersberger, Edna Bosche, 1888-1923., Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966., Kellersberger, Julia Lake Skinner, 1897-1986., Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010.
Topical Subject(s): African trypanosomiasis., Leprosy., Leprosy--Hospitals--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions to leprosy patients., Tropical medicine--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic), Africa--Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Location: RG 436; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers, 1909-1998.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-436
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:erkellersberger

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