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Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Calvin Brewster Coulter, Jr. papers and lantern slides

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-008
Abstract Calvin Brewster Coulter, Jr. (1915–1995) was a Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Puget Sound from 1945 to 1980. This collection includes materials related to Coulter’s research and teaching. The papers include a manuscript, photographs, negatives, and fruit labels from his unpublished work,The Big Y Country, as well as records from the University of Puget Sound Curriculum Committee and Graduate Council, lecture notes from a...
Dates: c.1860-1900, 1970-1979

Methodist Missions correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-016
Abstract

A selection of correspondence by multiple authors and received by Reverends R. Bangs, J.P. Durbin, and others, pertaining to missionary life and travel in California, Texas, New England, New York, Wisconsin, Panama, and Africa.

Dates: 1836-1851

Mongolian Missions collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-014
Abstract

This collection contains religious and educational materials presumed to have belonged to Arnolda Almblad. Arnolda was the wife of Anton Almblad, a sub-agent of the British & Foreign Bible Society in Kalgan, Inner Mongolia. Some of the materials in the collection were published by the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Swedish Mongol Mission Press, and the Russian-Mongolian Publishing Company. The collection also contains a large number of photographs.

Dates: 1913-1936

Oregon Methodist Missions papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-017
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence (bulk), minutes, reports and journals by Henry K. W. Perkins, C. Pitman, George Gary, Jason Lee, William Roberts, and others.

Dates: 1835-1985; Majority of material found within 1835 - 1858

John D. Regester collection on Albert Schweitzer

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-018
Abstract

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a medical missionary, philosopher, and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1952) who operated a hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, for 45 years. This collection contains Schweitzer biographer John D. Regester’s collection of Schweitzer-related correspondence, files, articles, clippings, photographs, and a 1940 manuscript on Indian and Chinese thought, and African artifacts.

Dates: 1924-1974; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1972

Frank Williston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-020
Abstract Frank Williston was a specialist in Far Eastern affairs, particularly Japan and China, who taught at the College of Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) before World War II. This collection contains materials on the political, historical and economic conditions in China, Japan, Manchuria, Malaya, Burma, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. It also contains correspondence pertaining to the Nanking Theological Seminary during the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937. The...
Dates: 1827-1972