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Missionaries -- China.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Augustus Ward Loomis papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2474
Abstract Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland...
Dates: 1803-1897.

Boxer Rebellion newspaper scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113453231]
Identifier: 8458
Scope and content Scrapbook of articles and illustrations from English and Chinese newspapers documenting the events of the Boxer Rebellion, including the China times, North China herald, London Missionary Society chronicle, Times (of London), Evening standard, Daily news, and others. Articles include portraits, plans, maps, and other illustrations. Laid in are additional clippings, together with a circular letter asking for donations to provide food and clothing for those who need it in the aftermath of the...
Dates: 1900.

Elmer L. Mattox papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4283
Abstract

Pamphlets, brochures, and other materials relating to Hangchow Christian College and other colleges and universities in China, including a typescript history of the college by Mattox, 1952; Presbyterian missions in Hainan and Yunan; religious education in general; and other topics relating to China.

Dates: 1905-1954.

Frances Evaline Duncombe papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065092862]
Identifier: 37-5-2666
Scope and content

Two diaries kept while a student living in Sage College at Cornell University; also, correspondence, essays, clippings, and photographs, some of which deal with Protestant missionary work in China.

Dates: 1891-1957.

George Durand Wilder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3241
Abstract

Includes notebooks, pamphlets, field notes, and other material on ornithology, mostly in China; Birds of Northeastern China by Wilder and Hugh Hubbard; correspondence of Wilder and his sons Theodore Wilder and Durand Wilder (George Durand Wilder, Jr.) and of Gertrude Stanley Wilder; volume of "Random Jottings" by Gertrude Wilder, including recollections of China missions and missionaries.

Dates: [ca.1897-1976].

William Reginald Wheeler papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4284
Abstract

Personal correspondence, 1927-1957; documentation on agricultural work in China, 1927; athletics, 1933; Chinese women, 1935; foreign missionaries in China, 1934-1935; observations and eyewitness accounts by missionaries and teachers at Nanking ("The Nanking Incident of March 24-25, 1927").

Dates: 1927-1957.