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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

Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall

 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

Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer

 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

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

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: 2016-023
Dates: 1929-2004

Robert Ekvall materials.

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

Robert Ekvall materials.

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

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Type
Unprocessed Material 8
Collection 2
 
Subject
Missions -- Tibet. 7
Missions -- China. 6
Buddhists -- Tibet (China) 4
Children of missionaries. 3
Communism -- China. 3
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Evangelistic work -- Tibet (China) 3
Bible colleges 2
Buddhism. 2
Buddhists -- China. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
China -- History. 2
China. 2
Church and state. 2
Communism. 2
Evangelistic work. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions -- Asia. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions to Buddhists -- Tibet. 2
Missions to Buddhists. 2
Missions. 2
Philosophy, Tibetan. 2
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
Bible colleges -- Laos. 1
Bible. 1
Buddhism -- Christianity. 1
Buddhism -- Laos. 1
Buddhists. 1
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- Foreign Relations -- United States. 1
China -- Foreign relations. 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 -- Publication and distribution. 1
Christian literature. 1
Christianity and politics. 1
Church and state -- China. 1
Church and state -- Indochina. 1
Church and state -- Tibet. 1
Church and state -- Vietnam. 1
Church growth -- Laos. 1
Church growth. 1
Church schools 1
Church schools -- Laos. 1
Church work with refugees -- Thailand. 1
Church work with refugees -- United States. 1
Church work with refugees. 1
Communism -- Laos. 1
Communism -- Vietnam. 1
Conversion. 1
Education 1
Education -- Laos. 1
Emigration and immigration. 1
Ethnomusicology. 1
Evangelistic work -- Asia. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelistic work -- Laos. 1
Evangelistic work -- Tibet. 1
Exorcism. 1
France 1
France -- Colonies 1
France -- Colonies -- Asia. 1
French language. 1
Hmong (Asian people) 1
Hmong language 1
House churches -- Tibet. 1
House churches. 1
Indigenous church administration 1
Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Tibet. 1
Indochina 1
Indochina -- History 1
Indochina -- History -- 1945- 1
Intercultural communication. 1
Islam -- Doctrines. 1
Khmu' (Southeast Asian people) 1
Khmu' language. 1
Laos 1
Laos -- Religion 1
Laos -- Social life and customs. 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
Polygamy -- Laos. 1
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