Box 42
Contains 10 Results:
Mission in India Info, 1912
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
Friends Mission in India, 1912
Photographs taken at the Friends Mission in India. Subjects include local residents, mission buildings, and missionaries.
Biography of Robert L. & Margaret T. Simkin, 1927
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.
West China Scrapbook, 1906-1956
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.
China, 1920 - 1949
Photographs taken in West China. Subjects include West China Union University, the city of Chengdu, the Yangtze river gorge, and local Friends.
West China, 1920s
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.
China Old and New, 1920s
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.
Missions to China
Two photographs of the Simkin family during their tenure as missionaries in Chengdu.
Japan and Korea, 1890-1976, bulk: 1967-1975
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.