The president stands at a table before a group of men and women many with solemn and stern expressions on their faces. On the walls behind them is a large portrait of a man with a large, caricatured face flanked by two paintings; on the left two preac...
Description:
Title from heading above image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Missions, Preaching, and Religious meetings
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.
Circa 80 items, mostly ALS written to Alice M. Bement Fletcher in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, by members of her family. Thirty-three letters, 1865-1886, were written to Fletcher by Charles H. Bement, most discussing his life as a rancher near Kan...
Description:
Alice M. Bement Fletcher was born ca. 1855 and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She married William Fletcher in the 1870s. Family members who corresponded with Alice M. Bement Fletcher included her brothers, Charles H...
Subject (Geographic):
Middle West., Utah., Millard County (Utah), Utah, Millard County., and Nauvoo (Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Adams, Rosa., Bement family., Bement, Arthur., Bement, Bingham., Bement, Charles H., Bement, Sarah J., Cook, Jessie, fl. 1886-1889., Cook, Mary., Fletcher, Addie L., Fletcher, Alice M. Bement., Fletcher, Jasper., Forbes family., Forbush family., Pierce, Fred C., Rogers, Annie., Searle, Ida A., Searle, Maria J., Twiss, John S., Warburton, Sarah., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints., and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Mormons, Frontier and pioneer life, and Ranch life
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
Dear Friend, Being commissioned by Jesus Christ, I take the liberty to call your attention to the following momentous and marvellous truths, to be illustrated and proved to the entire satisfaction of every honest mind ...
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc66 G5 847sp: From the library of Levi Richards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Liverpool.
Subject (Name):
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Doctrines, and Latter Day Saint churches
Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female...
Description:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridg...
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history
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
A pictorial lettersheet with a large central image at top and smaller images enclosed in vine medallions trailing down the left and right sides, with a large blank space for the message. The central image, bordered by figures of a Native American and ...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 445: With manuscript letter dated April 11, 1856.
Publisher:
Published by Pentenrieder & Blersch
Subject (Geographic):
San Antonio (Tex.), Texas, San Antonio, and Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)
Subject (Name):
Mission Concepción (San Antonio, Tex.), Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (San Antonio, Tex.), and Mission San Juan Capistrano (San Antonio, Tex.)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Church buildings, and Missions
