Search results

Title: Lynda Carver interviewed by Alfreda Hinn, May 19, 1980.
Creator Name(s): Carver, Lynda Marie, 1903-1994. (interviewee), Hinn, Cora Alfreda Pence, 1908-1982. (interviewer)
Date Created: 1980
Name Subject(s): Carver, Lynda Marie, 1903-1994.
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Iran--Tehran, Missions--Educational work--Iraq--Baghdad.
Geographic subjects: Iran, Tehran, Baghdad (Iraq), North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Philadelphia, Iraq, Baghdad.
Physical Location: CASSETTE 613; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Interview of Lynda Carver [sound recording] / by Alfreda P. Hinn.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=782
Identifier (local): cassette613_side2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116468

Title: Hostage Benjamin Weir tells of his 16 month ordeal in Lebanon, 1985.
Description: Ben and Carol Weir interviewed on the Today show by Jane Pauley, September 20, 1985.
Creator Name(s): Weir, Ben, 1923-2016. (interviewee), Weir, Carol. (interviewee), Pauley, Jane, 1950- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1985, September 20, 1985, September 20, 1985
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Lebanon., Hostages--Lebanon.
Geographic subjects: Lebanon., North and Central America--United States, Lebanon., Lebanon.
Physical Location: MOTIONPIC (VIDEO) E8; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Hostage Benjamin Weir tells of his 16 month ordeal in Lebanon [videorecording].--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1345
Identifier (local): VideoE8_BenWeirInterview_1985_HQ
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:101258

Title: Lynda Carver interviewed by Lois Boyd, May 4, 1977.
Description: Lynda Carver was a Presbyterian missionary to Iraq, born 10 May 1903, died 11 October 1994.
Creator Name(s): Carver, Lynda Marie, 1903-1994. (interviewee), Boyd, Lois A., 1936- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1977, May 4, 1977, May 4, 1977
Name Subject(s): Carver, Carver, Lynda Marie, 1903-1994.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Iraq--Baghdad., Missions--Educational work--Iraq--Baghdad.
Geographic subjects: Baghdad (Iraq), North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Philadelphia, Iraq, Baghdad.
Physical Location: CASSETTE 734; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: [Interview with] Lynda Carver [sound recording] / by Lois Boyd and Doug Brackenridge.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1003
Identifier (local): cassette734
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116475

Title: Growing Up in Iran.
Description: Elder Family reunion photograph album and history, "Growing Up In Iran." Reminiscences of five daughters and sons of Ruth (Roche) and John Elder, missionaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Recorded by Jack Tiffany during an Elder-family reunion at Conference Point Center in Williams Bay on the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin August 2 and 3, 2010. Page 28 of document is missing.
Creator Name(s): Tiffany, Jack. (interviewer)
Date Created: 2010, August 2010, August 2010
Name Subject(s): Elder family--Archives., Elder family., Elder, John, 1894-1981., Elder, Ruth Roche, 1899-1992., Leake, Alice Elder., Hilton, Miriam Elder., Elder, Joseph., Elder, David., Lund, Louise Elder.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects: Iran., Iran., Iran., Iran., Iran., Asia--Iran
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 17-0714; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Elder family papers, 1929-1970.--https://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MTA4MjM=
Identifier (local): 17-0714_growing_up_iran
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:293237

Title: Eden Naby oral history, 2022.
Description: Oral history, 2022, on growing up in Urmia and Golpashan, the genocide of Assyrians during the First World War, the transfer of mission schools to government control after 1934, her mother Lillie's career as a teacher, and her father Mishael's work as a Presbyterian pastor in Urmia and at Gaston Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.). Eden Naby is an Assyrian-Iranian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the Assyrian village of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. She has conducted research, taught and published on minority issues in countries from Turkey to Xinjiang. Her work on Afghanistan and on the Assyrians stands out in the field of cultural survival.
Creator Name(s): Naby, Eden. (interviewee)
Date Created: 2022, April 27, 2022, April 27, 2022
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Assyrians--Iran--Urūmīyah--History--20th century., Assyrians--Crimes against--Iran--History.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 22-0438; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Related Item: Eden Naby oral history, 2022.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MjAyMjA=&sI
Identifier (local): EdenNaby
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:286183

You are here