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American Church Mission (ACM)
Collection of 57 photographs taken in China (1896-1900), primarily at American Church Mission stations and institutions. Also of interest: Imperial Examination cells at Nanking (Nanjing), Chinese Prayer Book Revision Committee. (.5 linear ft.)
ACM
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (ABFMS)
ABFMS missionary in Suifu, Kiating (Sichuan) (1914-1926); correspondence, writings, photographs of Peking, Western China, Buddhist funeral, people at work, etc. (1 linear ft.)
ABFMS
Methodist Episcopal Church (MEFB)
MEFB missionary in Peking (1915-1950); memoir, photographs and watercolors in silk cases, incl. "Views in China," "Chart of Old Peking," "Chinese Temples," "China Flowers." (1 linear ft.)
MEFB
Presbyterian Mission, North (PN)
PN missionaries in Yeungkong (Guangdong) (1924-1949); field agent in Secret Intelligence with U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services in China (1944-1945); correspondence, notes, reports, printed material. (1.5 linear ft.)
PN
Methodist
Methodist missionaries 1919-1950, stationed in Peking and Tientsin (Tianjin). EA was Methodist pastor and district director, worked with students. (1.5 linear ft.)
Methodist
Presbyterian Mission, North (PN)
PN missionary in China; writings, incl. "The Story of Hope Hospital, 1871-1952." (1 folder)
PN
Kuling-American School
Roy Allgood was headmaster of the Kuling-American School, Kuling (Jiangxi) from 1931 to 1939. Compiled letters (1 folder)
Educational
Methodist Episcopal Church South (MES)
MES missionary in Huchow (Huzhou, Zhejiang), Soochow (Suzhou, Jiangsu), Shanghai (ca.1919-1940); correspondence, printed material. (8 folders)
MES
Methodist
Methodist missionaries in China and Hong Kong from 1915 to 1963. They were instrumental in the development of the Moore Memorial Church in Shanghai and spent twelve years in Hong Kong after 1951 working with refugees from mainland China. (6 linear ft.)
Methodist
Fukien Christian University
Treasurer and administrative assistant at Fukien Christian University from 1923 to 1950; correspondence, diaries, photographs (3 linear ft.)
Educational
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
ABCFM missionary in Shansi (Shanxi) (1882-1913); information re. Shansi Mission (outgrowth of Oberlin Theological Seminary "China Band"), excerpts of journal of Susan Rowena Bird (martyr during Boxer Rebellion), correspondence. (1 folder)
ABCFM
Church Missionary Society (CMS)
CMS missionary in Canton (Guangzhou), Shanghai; typescript memoir incl. re. his wife, Martha Sherman Baker and her father Arthur Sherman. (.5 linear ft.)
CMS
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
ABCFM missionaries in Tientsin (Tianjin) Hebei (1916-1948); correspondence. (6 linear ft.)
ABCFM
London Missionary Society (LMS)
LMS missionaries in Peking, Yenching (Yanjing) University (1920-1934); correspondence, photographs, writings, printed material. (3.5 linear ft.)
LMS
American Church Mission (ACM)
ACM missionary in Shanghai, St. John's University (ca.1916-1923); correspondence, photographs, printed material. (6 folders)
ACM
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
YMCA Shanghai (1910-1936); report, "The Far East in the Summer of 1940", memoirs 1937-1968. (2 folders)
YMCA
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
ABCFM missionary, Peking, Yenching University (1924-1927); typescript manuscripts on Chinese revolutionaries and Jimmy Yen. (.5 linear ft.)
ABCFM
United Christian Missionary Society (UCMS)
UCMS faculty member at University of Nanking (1920-1950); chairman of the Nanking International Relief Committee (1937-1941); professor of missions, Union Theological Seminary, NY (1950-1965); correspondence, notes and drafts. (55 linear ft.)
UCMS
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
ABCFM missionary, Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien Christian University (1910-1937); correspondence. (1 folder)
ABCFM
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
David Nelson Beach: Congregational clergyman, president of Bangor Theol. Seminary (1903-1921). Harlan Page Beach: ABCFM missionary to North China (1883-1890), professor of missions at Yale (1905-1921); correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs. (6 linear ft.)
ABCFM
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
ABCFM missionary in Foochow (Fuzhou) (1894-1941); served YMCA in Fukien (Fujian) (1905-1910); correspondence, diaries, writings, collected material, photographs. (2.5 linear ft.)
ABCFM
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (ABFMS)
George and Jennie Wortman Campbell and their children Louise, Margaret, and Dorothy: American Baptist missionaries, South China Mission (1887-1946), including work with Hakkas and on West Coast of the U.S. (1900-1908); correspondence, diaries, writings (12 linear ft.)
ABFMS
Presbyterian Mission, North (PN)
PN missionary teaching in Canton (Guangzhou) and Shantung (Shandong) (1921-1936), President of Silliman University, Philippines (1939-1953), Trinity College, Philippines (1963-1967); correspondence, writings, printed material. (1.5 linear ft.)
PN
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (ABFMS)
ABFMS missionaries in Chengtu (Chengdu) Sichuan, faculty members at West China Union University (1910-1949); correspondence, writings, documentation of ethnic designs found in West China. (6 linear ft.)
ABFMS
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
YMCA secretary in Peking (1906-1927), North China (1927-1938), senior secretary for China (1938-1946), administered famine relief work (1920-1922, 1931), field director for United China Relief (1942-1946); correspondence, writings, notes, collected material. (8 linear ft.)
YMCA
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (ABFMS)
John Marshall and Clara Hess Foster: ABFMS missionaries in Swatow (Shantou), Guangdong (1887-1921), children: Anna in Meihsien (1917-1940), Frank in Swatow (1916-1919), John Hess Foster, M.D., at Yale-in-China, Changsha Hunan (1919-1927); correspondence, writings, journals, printed material. (7 linear ft.)
ABFMS
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) / American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS)
J. Boardman Hartwell and wives: SBC missionaries at Tungchow (Tongzhou) (1860-1875), JBH then ABHMS missionary in San Francisco (ca. 1879-1893) before returning to China (1893-1912), children: Nellie, Anna, Lottie, and Charles were also missionaries in China (1892-1948); correspondence, writings, collected material. (8 linear ft.)
SBC
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
YMCA secretary in Peking (1931-1936), Shanghai (1938-1941; 1945-1948), Chungking (Chongqing, Sichuan) (1941-1945); correspondence, notes, writings, material related to Chinese Islam. (22 linear ft.)
YMCA
Methodist Episcopal Church (MEFB)
MEFB missionary in China (1906-1941), administrator for famine relief work (1924-1927, 1931-1936); lecturer on China in the U.S. (1942-1966); correspondence, writings, notes, printed material. (17.5 linear ft.)
MEFB
Yale-in-China Association
Faculty member at Yale-in-China, Changsha Hunan (1910-1912); Yale professor of missions and Oriental history (1921-1953); correspondence, diaries, writings, collected material, photographs. (70 linear ft.)
Yale-in-China
Presbyterian Mission, North (PN)
PN missionary in China, professor at Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford; Papers (4.5 linear ft.); Microfilm: letters, notes (1914-1941). (1 reel)
PN
Methodist Episcopal Church (MEFB)
Wilson Edward and Florence Brown Manly: MEFB missionaries in Chungking (Chongqing), Tzechow, Chengtu (Chengdu) Sichuan (1893-1937); Grace Manly, Marian E. Manly, M.D. MEFB missionaries in Chengdu, Tsohing (1924-1943); correspondence, writings. (4 linear ft.)
MEFB
Methodist Episcopal Church (MEFB)
MEFB missionaries in Foochow (Fuzhou, Fujian), Korea, Hinghwa Fujian, Shanghai (1870-1911); correspondence, writings, collected material, photographs. (6 linear ft.)
MEFB
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (ABFMS)
ABFMS missionary in Swatow/Shantou area (1918-1937, 1946-1953), held in solitary confinement prior to release from China in 1953; correspondence, diary, notes, writings, printed material, photographs. (3.5 linear ft.)
ABFMS
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
Edward Huntington and Grace Thomas Smith: ABCFM missionaries in Ing Tai, Fujian (1901-1950); Helen Huntington Smith: ABCFM missionary at Wen Shan Girls' School, Foochow (Fuzhou) (1929-1950); Eunice Smith Bishop: taught kindergarten in China; correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs. (7 linear ft.)
ABCFM
Methodist Episcopal Church (MEFB)
MEFB faculty members at University of Nanking (Nanjing) (1921-1950); correspondence, writings, collected material, biographical documentation, photographs. (7 linear ft.)
MEFB
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) / United Church Board for World Missions (UCBWM)
China missionary and mission executive for ABCFM/UCBWM (90 linear ft.)
ABCFM
Presbyterian Mission, North (PN)
PN faculty member at University of Nanking (Nanjing) (1917-1949), Japan International Christian University, Yonsei Medical College, nutrition consultant to World Health Organization in Iran, Pakistan, Turkey (1950s). (9.5 linear ft.)
PN
China Inland Mission (CIM) / American Bible Society (ABS)
CIM, ABS missionary in China (1896-1934), worked with ethnic groups in the Ch'iang Min Valley; correspondence, writings, printed material. (4 linear ft.)
CIM
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
Turner served under the YMCA in China from 1913 to 1947. He was involved in student and city work for the Y.M.C.A. in China and was a keen observer of Chinese customs and political events. (2 linear ft.)
YMCA
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
Served the YWCA in Canton (Guangzhou) and Shanghai from 1920-1930. (1.5 linear feet)
YWCA