The Mongolian Missions collection consists of three boxes containing religious and educational materials, as well as several hundred photographs, presumed to have belonged to Arnolda Almblad. The collection is divided into two series. Series 1: Printed Materials, contains texts. Some of the texts were published by the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Swedish Mongol Mission Press, and the Russian-Mongolian Publishing Company dating from 1913 to 1927. Series 2: Photographs, contains photographs depicting the life of Scandinavian missionaries in Inner-Mongolia in the early 20th century.

Several scholars, including Victor Thibout and Professor Toba Baikal of Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan, provided our archivists with translations and identified individuals and places depicted in some of the photographs. This information has greatly influenced the content of this finding aid and we are grateful for their contributions.