Collection 379 Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, almost 3,000 photographs.
Topics documented include the creation and activity of the mission work in Burma, China, India, Pakistan, and Japan, its work among orphans and women.
Dates
- Created: 1860-1983
Conditions Governing Access
The contents of Boxes 29 and 30 have been microfilmed and researchers must use the microfilm instead of the fragile originals.
Biographical or Historical Information
Nondenominational mission agency; founded in 1860 by Mrs. Sarah Platt Doremus as the Woman's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to China, Burma, Japan, India and what was later Pakistan; they sponsored orphanages, schools and hospitals as well as evangelistic work among women and children; after 1972, known as the United Fellowship For Christian Service; dissolved in 1975 due to financial difficulties, and merged into Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship.
Extent
21.60 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Other Descriptive Information
- Baptists -- Missions.
- Baptists.
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship.
- Bible colleges
- Bible colleges -- China.
- Buddhists -- India.
- Buddhists -- Japan.
- Buddhists.
- China.
- China. -- Foreign relations
- China. -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- China. -- History
- China. -- History -- 1912-1937.
- China. -- History -- 1937-1945.
- China. -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949.
- Chinese
- Chinese -- Missions.
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- China.
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- India.
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Japan.
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution.
- Christian literature.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Church work with children.
- Church work with women
- Church work with women -- China.
- Church work with women -- Japan.
- Communism
- Communism -- China.
- Corporations, Religious
- Corporations, Religious -- Taxation.
- Doremus, Sarah Platt.
- Education
- Education -- Burma.
- Education -- China.
- Education -- India.
- Education -- Pakistan.
- Evangelistic work -- China.
- Evangelistic work -- India.
- Evangelistic work -- Japan.
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Colonies
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia.
- Hinduism
- Hinduism -- Doctrines.
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
- Language in missionary work.
- Marriage
- Marriage -- India.
- Marston, Sarah Hall.
- Medical care
- Medical care -- China.
- Medical care -- India.
- Medical care -- Pakistan.
- Medical education
- Medical education -- China.
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election.
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs.
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc.
- Missionaries -- United States.
- Missionaries, Resignation of.
- Missionaries.
- Missions -- Educational work.
- Missions -- Burma.
- Missions -- China.
- Missions -- Finance.
- Missions -- India -- Politics and government.
- Missions -- India.
- Missions -- Japan -- Church history
- Missions -- Japan -- Church history -- 1945-
- Missions -- Japan -- History -- 1945-
- Missions -- Japan -- History.
- Missions -- Japan.
- Missions -- Nepal.
- Missions -- Pakistan.
- Missions to Buddhists
- Missions to Buddhists -- Japan.
- Missions to Hindus -- India.
- Missions to Hindus.
- Missions to Muslims -- India.
- Missions to Muslims -- Pakistan.
- Missions to Muslims.
- Missions, Medical.
- Missions.
- Muslims -- India.
- Muslims -- Pakistan.
- Muslims.
- Nursing schools
- Nursing schools -- China.
- Nursing schools -- India.
- Nursing schools -- Pakistan.
- Nursing.
- Orphans
- Orphans -- India.
- Orphans -- Pakistan.
- Refugees
- Refugees -- Tibet.
- Rural missions.
- Sex role
- Sex role -- China.
- Sex role -- India.
- Sex role -- Japan.
- Sex role -- Pakistan.
- Silkworms.
- Sunday schools.
- United Fellowship for Christian Service.
- Vacation schools, Christian.
- Woman's Union Missionary Society of America.
- Women
- Women -- Religious life.
- Women missionaries.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Title
- Collection 379 Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Billy Graham Center Archives Repository