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Title: Men with horse and donkey in Hamadān, Iran.
Description: [Text transcribed from caption] Property of Belle and Jim, Persia. Prince 57' 12 in. high. Peter 55' 12 in. high. In the no. Persian wild ass (the presumptive progenitor of the animal in the photograph), a male's height at the shoulder is given as 50 in., a female's as 44 in. Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World. Perhaps the measurement given on the back of the photographs, the original of which belonged to Mrs. Hawkes, applied to the distance from the top of the head to the ground. F.H. 4-16-70. (Francis Harper.)
Creator Name(s): Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. (creator)
Date Created: 1883, ca. 1883-1919
Name Subject(s): Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919--Archives., Harper, Francis.
Topical Subject(s): Women missionaries--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Horses--Iran., Donkeys--Iran.
Geographic subjects: Iran., Iran., Iran., Hamadān (Iran), Asia--Iran--Hamadān--Hamadān, Iran.
Physical Location: RG 116, Box 2, Folder 13; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Belle Hawkes Papers.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-116
Identifier (local): rg116_b2_f13_24
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:159895

Title: Belle Hawkes' biographical items.
Description: Belle Hawkes biographical data as provided by some of her loved ones. Includes: a letter written by Robert Speer addressed to Belle Hawkes' sister, Margaret; "Belle Sherwood Hawkes - Thirty-Six Years in Persia," a 1931 essay written her husband, James W. Hawkes for the Elmira College Alumnae News; an excerpt from a 1969 letter from LeRoy Bailey, the nephew of Belle, to Jane and Francis Harper. Also includes Belle Hawkes' "Circular Letter to Expected Students," for Elmira College, 1871.
Creator Name(s): Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. (author), Speer, Robert E. (Robert Elliott), 1867-1947. (author), Hawkes, James W. (author), Bailey, LeRoy, 1946- (author)
Date Created: 1871, ca. 1871-1969
Name Subject(s): Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919--Archives., Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919., Sherwood, Margaret Pollock, 1864-1955., Hawkes, James W., Harper, Jean, Harper, Francis., Cowles, A. W., Bailey, LeRoy, 1946-, Sherwood, Mary Frances., Speer, Robert E. (Robert Elliott), 1867-1947., Elmira College.
Topical Subject(s): Women missionaries--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects: Iran., Iran., Iran., Asia--Iran
Physical Location: RG 116, Box 2, Folder 14; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Belle Hawkes papers, 1872-1919.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-116
Identifier (local): rg116_b2_f14
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:155909

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