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Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983.

 Person

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

C. Edwin Carlson photographs.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1993-034
Dates: 1930-1948

Emma Ekvall article, interview transcript, and audio interview.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1982-157
Dates: 1943-1970

Leonard and Isabelle Hall papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1990-104
Dates: 1933-1934

Malcolm and Helen Sawyer Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates: Created: 1985

Robert B. Ekvall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.

Dates: Created: 1933-1980

Robert Carlson Family materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2006-032
Dates: 1936-1940

Robert Carlson's photographs of Tibet and China.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1995-127
Dates: 1940-1948

Robert Ekvall materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2010-032
Dates: 1927-2002

Robert Ekvall materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2016-023
Dates: 1929-2004

Robert Ekvall materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 2
Identifier: 2016-031
Dates: 1914-2008

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Type
Unprocessed Material 8
Collection 2
 
Subject
Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 7
Missions -- China. 6
Buddhists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
Children of missionaries. 3
Communism -- China. 3
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Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 3
Buddhists -- China. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missions -- Asia. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions to Buddhists -- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) 2
Philosophy, Tibetan. 2
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
Bible colleges -- Laos. 1
Bible colleges. 1
Buddhism -- Laos. 1
Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
Buddhism. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- Foreign Relations -- United States. 1
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
China -- Religion. 1
China -- Social life and customs. 1
Chinese language. 1
Christian leadership. 1
Christian literature -- Publishing. 1
Christianity and politics. 1
Church and state -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 1
Church and state -- China. 1
Church and state -- Indochina. 1
Church and state -- Vietnam. 1
Church and state. 1
Church growth -- Laos. 1
Church schools -- Laos. 1
Church work with refugees -- Thailand. 1
Church work with refugees -- United States. 1
Communism -- Laos. 1
Communism -- Vietnam. 1
Conversion -- Christianity. 1
Education -- Laos. 1
Emigration and immigration. 1
Ethnomusicology. 1
Evangelistic work -- Asia. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelistic work -- Laos. 1
Exorcism. 1
France -- Colonies -- Asia. 1
French language. 1
Hmong (Asian people) 1
Hmong language. 1
House churches -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 1
Indigenous church administration -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 1
Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
Indochina -- History -- 1945- 1
Intercultural communication. 1
Islam -- Doctrines. 1
Khmu' (Southeast Asian people) 1
Khmu' language. 1
Laos -- Religion. 1
Laos -- Social life and customs. 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
Missions -- Africa. 1
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 1
Missions -- Laos. 1
Missions -- Sierra Leone. 1
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
Missions to Buddhists. 1
Polygamy -- Laos. 1
Public worship -- Christianity. 1
Refugees -- Indochina. 1
Spiritualism. 1
Theologians -- United States. 1
Three-self movement -- China. 1
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs. 1
Tibetan language. 1
Tribes -- Laos. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1920s 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
Women missionaries. 1
World War, 1939-1945. 1
Worship. 1
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