Recent additions to the Pearl digital archive include a variety of foreign mission personal paper and photograph collections, a new web archives collection, and oral histories with synchronized and downloadable transcriptions.
ARCHIVAL AND PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS
Correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs documenting the Millican family's missionary experiences in China, and to a lesser extent in the Philippines, emphasizing the difficulties of their work during the Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s and during the post-World War II years. Edith Millican's correspondence documents medical work in China during and after World War II, giving insight into the training and experiences of, and opportunities for, American women doctors. Also included are photographs documenting Edith Millican's time serving the Board of National Missions as a physician in New Mexico.
United Mission in Iraq Photographs
Photographs of Baghdad High School Mansour, a school for girls in a western district of Baghdad operated by the United Mission in Iraq.
Katharine Talcott Hale letter book
Collection of letters written by Presbyterian missionary Katharine Hale Cochran while serving in Iran from 1878 to 1895, edited and compiled by Cochran's sister Mary Hale in 1916. The collection was later rebound and photographs were added to illustrate the text.
Slide presentation depicting the country and people of Korea, arranged for a children's lecture. Script and original art work by Rev. Archibald W. Campbell.
Special Committee on Forms and Services Records
The 115th General Assembly (1903) of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. appointed the Special Committee on Forms of Service to prepare a manual that would standardize the form of special services, such as marriage, baptism, and communion services. Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr. (1852-1933) was appointed Chair and the Committee produced a manual in 1906 entitled: The Book of Common Worship. This collection contains minutes, reports, publications, correspondence, manuscripts, and other material relating to the work of the committee.
WEB ARCHIVES
PUBLICATIONS
AUDIO AND ORAL HISTORIES
