37 ALS, 23 of them written by Smith to his brother John Curtis Bowen and his sisters Marcia and Lucia Smith, while he attended Middlebury College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological Seminary. These letters carry local news and religiou...
Description:
Smith was a missionary in Oregon and Hawaii. He was sent in 1838 to Oregon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In 1842 he became a missionary in Hawaii. He returned to the Northeast in 1846, and became a pastor of the Buckland...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Oregon., and Hawaii.
Subject (Name):
Smith, Asa Bowen, 1809-1886., Smith, John Curtis., Smith, Lucia., Smith, Marcia., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Andover Theological Seminary., First Congregational Church (Buckland, Mass.), and Yale College (1718-1887). Theological Department.
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
A narrative of the life and work of Eliza Spalding Warren, the second white child born in Oregon Territory, with other facts relating to the coming of the early missionaries from 1834-38, the first printing press, the Indian tribes, the Whitman Massac...
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State)
Subject (Name):
Eells, Edwin, 1841-1917. and Warren, Eliza Spalding, 1837-1919.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Missionaries, Nez Percé Indians, and History
11 manuscript letters, most signed, documenting the work of early missionaries in Oregon. Most of the letters from Harvey Clark are addressed to fellow unaffiliated missionary Alvin T. Smith. Clark describes his overland journey to Oregon Territory,...
Description:
Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary and pioneer in Oregon. Born in Vermont, Clark trained as a stone mason before studying theology at Oberlin College. Clark and his wife Emmeline Caldwell Clark went to Oregon as unaffiliated missionaries in 18...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon. and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Clark, Emmeline Caldwell., Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858., Littlejohn, P. B., Munger, Asahel., Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., and Tualatin Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Education, Missions Oregon, Missionaries, Missions, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers, and Discovery and exploration
Journal kept in a composition book by clerks of the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church, Pawnee, Oklahoma, and related photographs depicting Pawnee Indian members of the church and other Native Americans, 1907-1920
Description:
Reverend Joseph Greenberry Brendel (1862-1926) founded the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church on September 20, 1908 and served as its minister until April 20, 1911, when Harry Bock (1865-1949) took charge of the church. Bock worked many years with western ...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Anadarko (Okla.), Darrow (Okla.), and Pawnee (Okla.)
Subject (Name):
Bock, Harry V., 1865-1949., Brendel, Allwilda Belle Griffith., Brendel, Joseph Greenberry., Burns, Hattie Smith., Dillon, Vince., Gillingham, David, Gray Eagle., Hole in the Ground., Knife Chief, Charles., Knife Chief, Maggie., Long Wolf, Jenny., Moses, John., Moses, Nettie., Peters, Robert., Pratt, Lester., As-sau-Taw-Ka., Chilocco Indian Agricultural School., Oklahoma Indian Baptist Association., Pawnee Indian Baptist Church., St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company., and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Kiowa Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Baptists, Missions, Indians of North America, Kiowa Indians, Missionaries, Osage Indians, Oto Indians, Pawnee Indians, Peyotism, and Ponca Indians
Photograph album by an unidentified photographer of Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa Indians, probably taken in or around the Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency in Darlington, Canadian County, Oklahoma. The outdoor scenes include a large number of family groups, wome...
Description:
Individual photographs measure 10 x 12.5 cm, and have manuscript captions and numbers.
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma and Darlington (Okla.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Cheyenne Indians, Arapaho Indians, Kiowa Indians, Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Agency (Okla.), Baptism, Missionaries, and Indian reservations
Wearing a traditional Franciscan habit, the friar Antonio Margil (who was venerated in 1836) holds a crucifix in his left hand, to which he points with his right, as he preaches to a group of exotically dressed Native Americans in an outdoor setting
Alternative Title:
Vera effigies venerabilis servi dei patris Antonii Margil
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Margil de Jesús, Antonio, 1657-1726
Subject (Topic):
Missionaries, Indians of North America, and Missions
