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United Foreign Missionary Society
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undated
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89 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2133
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Relates to the "Great Osage Mission," March 3, 1822-July 31, 1823.
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Japanese Missionary Postcards
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undated
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40 Postcards
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2013.05
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
This Collection contains hand-tinted postcards of Japan created during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). Subjects include daily life, scenes, and an image of the Taisho Emperor on horseback. About 10 of the cards contain images of schools, Anglican churches and other activities relating to Christian activities, making it likely that these low-quality ...
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Richards, Linda, 1841-1930 (nurse)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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1886-1890
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0221
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Linda Richards was the first woman nurse trained in the United States at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. When these letters were written, she was a missionary nurse and the head of the first training school for nurses in Japan.
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Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983
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circa 1925-1940
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146 Color slides (circa)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2003-12
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall while missionaries on the China-Tibet border. The photographs document Tibetan, Chinese, and Vietnamese people, ceremonies, dances and musicians, shrines, traders, boats, towns, agriculture, and scenery. The collection also includes images of the Ekvalls and other missionaries and a map of...
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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undated
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98 lantern slides (black and white and color)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1991.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Lantern slides, undated, some hand-tinted, assembled by the Foreign Missions Library of New York City to document missionary activities in Iran, probably during the early part of the twentienth century. Included are images of missionaries and evangelists, Fiske seminary, The American High School for Boys in Tehran, the Memorial School for Boys in T...
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Smith, Stanley
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1843-1849
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190 Frames
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4566
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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Scomp, H. A. (Henry Anselm), 1843-
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undated
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17 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1993
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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circa 1905-1978 (bulk 1905-1920)
bulk 1900-1920
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147 photographs
3 volumes (books)
43 postcards
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-003
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection contains 147 photographic prints and 43 postcards from East Africa (circa 1907-circa 1914), especially Kijobe, which depict the activities of the Africa Inland Mission; Theodore Roosevelt's safari in 1909; views of Nairobi, Mombasa, Port Said, Lake Victoria and other landscapes; and portraits of Maasai, Kikuyu, Kamba, Kavirondo, Akawba, Gikuyu, Somali and Swahili coast peoples. Missionaries pictured include Hetz, Hurlburt, and Wallace, who is listed as photographer on many of the prints. The collection also contains 3 paperback books, published by Africa Inland Mission, which describe the history of the organization and the experiences of its missionaries: Faster Beats the Drum (1978), Another Hand on Mine (1975) and Gardens of Miracles (1976).
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Newhouse, Seth
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
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ca. 1885
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4 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4288
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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October 1914
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1 Page
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7043
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Concerns Reverend Frazier S. Herndon's work on a system of writing for the Papago languages and translation of the Bible.