Kuhn, Isobel.
Person
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Assorted missionary materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-141
Dates:
1984-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Carl and Anna Gowman papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-010
Dates:
1914-1968
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 215 - Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 215
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, directories, newsletters, brochures, photographs, book manuscripts, slides, photo albums, and other materials which document the history of the North American branch of the mission. Materials cover the origins of the mission's North American branch; its church planting, evangelistic, medical, educational, and literature work in China until the time of its expulsion in 1951; its reorganization from China Inland Mission into Overseas Missionary Fellowship; its work...
Dates:
Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 1997, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1990
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 435 Ephemera of Isobel Miller Kuhn
Collection
Identifier: CN 435
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, articles, negatives, and photographs relating to the missionary service of Isobel and John Kuhn, primarily among the Lisu people in China and Thailand with Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1928 to 1954. The topics discussed in the letters include travel in China, missions work, their marriage, birth of daughter and son, cultural differences, advance of communists into the Lisu area, biographical sketches of co-workers Mary Baldock, Frances Bailey, Lilian...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1983
Collection 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Collection 519 Oral History Interviews with International Renewal Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 519
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Joseph C. Aldrich and Terry Dirks, leaders of International Renewal Ministries, in which they describe their personal backgrounds and the origins, purpose, and impact of the prayer summits for pastors sponsored by IRM. They also both talked about the revival on the campus of Multnomah Bible School that occurred on April 14, 1995. The time period covered by the interviews is 1940 to 1995.Terry Dirks and Joseph Aldrich were interviewed by Bob Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 678 Oral History Interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox
Collection
Identifier: CN 678
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox (1921-2019), missionary in China from 1947-1951 and Northern Thailand 1953-1973 with China Inland Mission (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Topics discussed include Cox's childhood experiences and early faith in the Church of the Brethren; call to missionary work; education at Columbia Bible College and Wheaton College; teaching Bible in Virginia public schools; attending Missionary Medical Institute and Wycliffe’s Summer Institute of...
Dates:
2014
Collection 719 Papers of Janet Wismer
Collection
Identifier: CN 719
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of broadcasts, correspondence, newsletters, articles, and memorabilia, relating to Janet Wismer's work as a staff member and producer for Elisabeth Elliot’s Gateway to Joy radio program. The collection also contains some material documenting Wismer's friendship with Elliot.
Dates:
1959-2012; Majority of material found in 1981-2012
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 9
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Subject
- Missions -- China. 8
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Bible -- Translating. 5
- China -- History. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Evangelistic work -- China. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Women 5
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 4
- Bible. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Lisu (Southeast Asian people) 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Boarding schools -- China. 3
- China -- Description and travel. 3
- China -- History -- 1949- 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- China -- Religion. 3
- China. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Communism. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missions -- Thailand. 3
- Music -- China. 3
- Prayer. 3
- Three-self movement. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Bible colleges 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Chinese language. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state -- China. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Conversion -- Christianity. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Southeast Asia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Thailand. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Kachin (Asian people) 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Missionaries -- Canada. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Singapore. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Music -- Religious aspects. 2
- Nursing. 2
- Opium trade -- Thailand. 2
- Revivals -- China. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Rural churches -- China. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Tribes. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Animism -- Mexico. 1
- Animism -- Thailand 1
- Animism. 1
- Atheism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- China. 1
- Bible colleges -- Southeast Asia. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Boarding schools -- Asia 1
- Buddhism -- Thailand. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists -- Southeast Asia. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Capital punishment. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
- China -- Church history. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 1 ∧ less
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