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LOC/B. Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion

 Record Group Term
Identifier: LOC/B

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Frederick Bankhardt diaries and correspondence

 Collection — Box 1 : [Barcode: 35025042868139]
Identifier: A 179
Abstract

Frederick Barnhardt was a Methodist missionary in China associated with the Yenping Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The collection (1929-1949) contains diaries and minor correspondence.

Dates: 1929-1949

Arthur and Mabel Billing papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 652
Abstract Collection comprises papers of Arthur William and Mabel Spohr Billing, Methodist missionaries to China, connected with the Union High School at Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien (Fujian) Province, and includes correspondence, Mabel Billing's diary (1939-1943), mission newsletters, minutes and other official records of the Foochow Conference of the Methodist Church, Foochow (Fuzhou) newspapers, Foochow Union High School pamphlets and photograph album, and a thesis by Portia Billings Foster on the high...
Dates: 1910-1960

Homer V. Bradshaw report

 Collection — Multiple collection box [A 204] 1: [Barcode: i50031855]
Identifier: A 204
Abstract

Homer V. Bradshaw was a missionary doctor in China who authored a report about the seizure of the Prebysterian missionaries at the American Presbyterian Mission at Linhsien, Kwangtung Province, China, between 1949-1954. The collection contains his report titled, "Behind bars, behind the Bamboo Curtain."

Dates: 1955

Elizabeth Carlyle letters from China

 Collection — Folder 1 (shares a box): [Barcode: i50002788]
Identifier: A 165
Abstract

Elizabeth Carlyle worked as a nurse at the Isabella Fisher Hospital, in Tientsin (Tianjin), China. The collection (1937-1938) contains outgoing correspondence regarding the conquest of Tientsin (Tianjin).

Dates: 1937-1938

Monona Cheney papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 275
Abstract

Monona Cheney (1890-1982) was a Christian missionary in China between 1918 and 1930. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, sermons, and publications that reflect her life as a missionary in China.

Dates: 1918-1932

Sydney Arthur Davidson, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple collection box [A 210] 1: [Barcode: i5003179x]
Identifier: A 210
Abstract

Sydney Arthur Davidson, Jr. worked in Foochow, China, teaching English at the Anglo-Chinese College. The collection (1934-1939) contains notes, manuscript material, and copies of published pieces regarding his experience working in China.

Dates: 1934-1939

Clarence Burton Day papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 785
Abstract

Clarence Burton Day (1889-1987) was a Presbyterian missionary teacher in China (1915-1943) and India (1947-1951). The collection includes correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and photographs that reflect his work as a missionary.

Dates: 1914-1971

Clara Pearl Dyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 198
Abstract

Clara Dyer was a Methodist missionary in Ch'angli, Hopei (Hopeh) Province, northern China from the early to mid-twentieth century. The collection includes personal letters and reports that reflect her missionary work.

Dates: 1935-1941

Joseph W. Dyson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 334
Abstract

Joseph W. Dyson (1889-1965) was a Southern Methodist missionary and educator at Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan (Formosa), from 1919 until 1949, and returned 1959-1965. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, publications, and photographs that reflect his work at the university, 1959-1965.

Dates: 1959-1965

Adam and Clara Groesbeck papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 818
Abstract

Collection comprises newsletters, church reports, personal correspondence, sermons, special interest reports, and diaries of Adam and Clara Groesbeck, Baptist missionaries in the Kwangtung province of South China from 1897-1927 and 1931-1935.

Dates: 1897-1939

Arthur M. Guttery papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 027
Abstract

Arthur M. Guttery (1885-1981) was a Protestant minister and missionary for the Y.M.C.A. The collection contains sermons, religious addresses, essays on China, correspondence, and memoirs of Y.M.C.A. workers in China.

Dates: 1919-1981

Irene Forsythe Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 028
Abstract

Irene Forsythe Hanson (1898-1976) was a Christian missionary in Tsingtao (Qingdao) and the countryside of China from 1926 to 1951. The collection includes correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings and a diary that reflect her work as a missionary.

Dates: 1907-1980

Barbara M. Hayes biography of John David Hayes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35025042917126]
Identifier: A 296
Abstract

Barbara Hayes was the wife John David Hayes, who was a Presbyterian missionary in Peking, China, from 1917 to 1943. The collection (1973) contains a manuscript of a biography of John David Hayes, by Barbara Hayes.

Dates: 1973

Myra Anna Jaquet papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 180
Abstract

Myra Jaquet was a Methodist missionary in northern China from 1911 to 1942. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, personal journals, and photographs.

Dates: 1913-1944

Bruce and Anna Jarvis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 386
Abstract

Bruce Jarvis (1885- )was a medical missionary and practiced in China and India from the 1920s through the 1940s. Mrs. Jarvis served in Presbyterian missions in administrative capacities and, after her marriage, in administrative positions in Methodist organizations. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, publications, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Dates: 1927-1928

Idabelle Main papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 029
Abstract

Idabelle Main (1887-1969) was a Christian missionary in China, serving from 1909 through 1941 and then again from 1946 to 1949. She served in Tientsin, Shanghai, and Foochow at multiple colleges and also worked as an editor. The collection includes correspondence, church materials, diaries and a biography written by her niece. Also included are photographs from her time in China.

Dates: 1895-1978

Paul and Esther Melrose papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 761
Abstract

Paul and Esther Melrose traveled to Hainan, China as missionaries of the Presbyterian Church. They were in Hainan, with interruptions until 1944. The collection contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, diaries and ephemeral materials that reflect the Melroses' careers as missionaries in China.

Dates: 1929-1969

Thelma Mills papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35025041754868]
Identifier: Ax 857
Abstract

Thelma Mills worked in education, primarily with foreign students, in China, Taiwan and in the US; while in China (1925-1927) she observed the Chinese civil war. The collection contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, travel mementos, postcards, and photographs, 1925-1976.

Dates: 1925-1976

Esther Morse papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 860
Abstract

Esther Morse (1898-1975) was a medical missionary in China and Pakistan. The collection contains correspondence, diaries, speeches, biographical information, scrapbooks, and photographs that offer a detailed picture of the experiences of a medical missionary woman whose life intersected with some of the most significant transitions in 20th century China and Pakistan.

Dates: 1921-1976

Edith Wherry Muckleston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 264
Abstract

Edith Wherry Muckleston (1876-1961) was an author who spent her childhood in Peking, China with her missionary parents. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and Chinese manuscripts and artifacts.

Dates: 1858-1961

Jay C. and Lucile C. Oliver papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 647
Abstract

Collection comprises papers of American missionaries to China Jay C. and Lucile C. Oliver, including family and professional correspondence, personal and travel diaries, and official records of the Y.M.C.A and the Salt Inspectorate in China.

Dates: 1905-1979

Elsie I. Reik papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 166
Abstract

Elsie Reik was a Christian missionary in Foochow (Fuzhou) China from the 1920s through 1950, when she returned to the United States. The collection consists of correspondence that provides some documentation on missionary work and on life in Foochow (Fuzhou).

Dates: 1922-1950

Edith Shufeldt papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 208
Abstract

Edith Shufeldt was a Methodist missionary in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northern China from the 1920s through the 1940s. The collection includes correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Dates: 1922-1967

Edith Winifred Simester papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 183
Abstract

Edith Simester was a Christian missionary in China and later Brazil, serving from the 1930s through the 1950s. The collection includes incoming correspondence and transcriptions of letters to her mother.

Dates: 1930-1952

Myra Snow papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 186
Abstract

Myra Snow was a Methodist missionary in Tientsin, northern China from the late 1920s through the early 1940s. The collection comprises letters that reflect her work as a missionary.

Dates: 1928-1944

Russell Steininger papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 178
Abstract

Russell Steininger (1896-1967) was a Christian missionary in China. The collection includes correspondence that reflects his work as a missionary.

Dates: 1895-1951

David S. and Luella R. Tappan papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 103
Abstract

David S. and Luella Tappan (husband and wife) were Presbyterian missionaries in Hainan, China. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, and miscellaneous materials that relate to their missionary work.

Dates: 1913-1966

Lyrel Teagarden papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 749
Abstract

Lyrel Teagarden (born April 23, 1894) served as a missionary in China from 1920 to 1951, in Jamaica from 1952 to 1956, and worked for two years in the Yakima Indian Mission in Washington State (during the early 1940s). The collection includes correspondence, day journals, biographical material, literary manuscripts and newsletters that reflect her missionary career, primarily during the China period.

Dates: 1921-1951

Frank M. Toothaker papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 217
Abstract Collection comprises papers of Frank M. Toothaker, Methodist missionary to China, and includes 9 volumes of diaries, 1918-1926, 268 letters received, and 104 letters sent, 1918-1950. Major correspondents include: Frank A. Argelander, Frederick Bankhardt, Harry R. Caldwell, Mrs. Martha H. Chen, William I. Lacy, Frederick T. Keeney, James E. Skinner, and Russell Steininger. There is also a series from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Miscellaneous manuscripts...
Dates: 1918-1950

Laura Maude Wheeler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 372
Abstract Collection comprises correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, publications, postcards, and photographs relating to Methodist missionary Laura Maude Wheeler and her work as a teacher and school administrator in Tianjin, China from 1903 to 1948, and as an evangelist in the United States from 1949 to 1966. From 1943 to 1945, Wheeler was interned as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in China. She was a writer and traveler who was acutely aware of China's cultural and physical landscape and wrote...
Dates: 1903-1966