MS 3791 Luiseno mythology
Manuscript on Mythology, cosmogony of the Luisenos, baptismal ceremony, etc. Contains names, mostly untranslated and several phrases in Luiseno.
Adam Clark Vroman photographic postcards of California missions and Camulos Ranch
Photographic postcards made by Adam Clark Vroman of California Missions and Camulos Ranch, part of "Vroman's Series of Postcards." The depicted mission include San Juan Bautista, Santa Clara, San Luis Rey de Francia, San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel Arcangel, San Antonio de Pala, San Diego de Alcala, San Buenaventura, Santa …
MS 3658-a Census of Mission Indians from 1769-1834
Gives date founded, neophytes, baptisms, deaths. Also list of twenty-one missions written in ink in hand of A. S. Gatschet.
MS 3153 Jeremiah Evarts Papers
1 Item (box )
Probable author, Jeremiah Evarts. Includes records of slave conditions, experiences of various individuals with the Indians, etc. Miscellaneous reports of Missions in the following countries: India (Bombay and Ceylon), Palestine, South America, Sandwich Islands, and among the American Indians. Miscellaneous correspondence, accounts, etc., etc. Reports, approximately 1044 pages. Other papers approximately …
MS 3613 Letter from E. J. P. Schmitt to A. S. Gatschet enclosing a list of tribal names from the Missions
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Basel Mission Gold Coast photographs
Switzerland. Basel Mission Archives
152 Photographic prints (+2 postcards , black & white, 15 x 20 cm or smaller.)
152 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black and white, 4 x 5 in.)
Photographs taken by members of the Basel Mission and by professional photographers. The majority of photographs were taken in the Basel Mission Faktorei (B.M.F.) in Accra and in other Basel Mission stores in Dodowa, Akure, Nsawam and Kumasi. Photographs taken by the members of the Basel Mission are of missionary life, flora and fauna, daily activities and named missionaries and their spouses. The professional images were of better quality and larger in size than the personal photographs. Among them are several images of a railroad station in Accra and a fleet of trucks belonging to the Basel Mission. Most significant among these photographs are 30 images of Asante people and of carved Asante stools. Two images were taken by F.R.C. Lutterodt, a well-known Ghanaian photographer, who had maintained studios in German Cameroon and in Ghana.
St. Francis Mission photograph collection
Copy photographs depicting buildings, farms, Dakota Indians, and mission school activities in and around the St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Reservation. The majority of the photographs were made by Eugene Buechel, a Jesuit who served at St. Francis and Holy Rosary missions. The collection also includes some photographs by …
Foreign Missions Library Lantern Slide Collection
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 …
Photographic prints
United States. National Park Service
Grant, George
Fuller, Lee
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Show various Mission churches in the Southwest and Mexico. Originals and copies, made 1890-1958.
Africa Inland Mission collection
bulk 1900-1920
3 volumes (books)
43 postcards
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).
