Skip to main content

Box 42

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

West China, 1920s

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 7
Identifier:  7
Scope and Contents

Albums of photographs taken in West China. Subjects include the Chengdu Friends Meeting, West China Union University, and the Yangtze River Gorge. Also included is a missionary-created filmstrip guide and script designed to teach children about the Philippines.

Dates: 1920s

China Old and New, 1920s

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 8
Identifier:  8
Scope and Contents

A bound album of slideshow photographs and captions portraying and discussing China. The album describes Chinese history in the early 20th century through a Christian lens, as well as political, religious, educational, social, medical, and industrial changes that missionaries ascribed to the influence of European and American Christianity.

Dates: 1920s

Missions to China

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 9
Identifier:  9
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of the Simkin family during their tenure as missionaries in Chengdu.

Dates: 1890 - 2002

Japan and Korea, 1890-1976, bulk: 1967-1975

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 11
Identifier:  11
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken of Japanese and Korean Friends. Subjects include delegates sent to the Fourth World Conference of Friends, the Friends Meetinghouse in Mito, and local Friends.

Dates: 1890-1976; Majority of material found within 1967-1975

Mission in India Info, 1912

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 1
Identifier:  1Mission in India Info, 1912
Scope and Contents

A pamphlet describing the history of the Ohio Friends Mission in India. The pamphlet is written from an American Friends perspective, and thus does not accurately represent the histories and perspectives of the Indian ethnicities, cultures, and races that are discussed in the pamphlet

Dates: 1912

Friends Mission in India, 1912

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 2
Identifier:  2
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken at the Friends Mission in India. Subjects include local residents, mission buildings, and missionaries.

Dates: 1912

Biography of Robert L. & Margaret T. Simkin, 1927

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 3
Identifier:  3
Scope and Contents

A biography of Robert and Margaret Simkin, missionaries stationed in Chengdu, Sichuan. The biography spans Robert's graduation from Haverford in 1903 through the May 30th movement and resulting anti-imperial unrest in 1925.

Dates: 1927

West China Scrapbook, 1906-1956

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 5
Identifier:  5
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks of pictures related to Friends missions. The first scrapbook has material from the West China mission, while the second scrapbook has more general photographs collected by the Board of Missions.

Dates: 1906-1956

China, 1920 - 1949

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 6
Identifier:  6
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in West China. Subjects include West China Union University, the city of Chengdu, the Yangtze river gorge, and local Friends.

Dates: 1920 - 1949