China -- History -- 1937-1945.
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection 051 Papers of Katharine H. Schoerner
Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman
Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.
Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.
Collection 055 Papers of Otto F. Schoerner
Papers of Otto Frederick Schoerner a Wheaton College alumnus and missionary with China Inland Mission in Sinkiang, Honan, and Kangsu Provinces of China from 1931-1951. Collection includes an oral history interview, correspondence, autobiography, and photographs.
Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Collection 124 Papers of Helen Renich
Collection 164 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Small
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.
Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane
Correspondence and curriculum material from James Herbert Kane and Winnifred Mary (Shepherd) Kane's missiology courses, and three oral history interviews. Materials document the Kanes' missionary work in China and Dr. Kane's teaching in the U.S. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1932 to 1950.
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin
Collection 215 Records of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission)
Collection 231 Papers of Ian and Helen Anderson
Collection 232 Papers of Esther Hess
Correspondence, photographs, and articles relating to Esther Hess's missionary work as a nurse in China with China Inland Mission from 1931 to 1945. The materials not only document Hess's missionary career, but also the Sino-Japanese war and her confinement to a Japanese internment camp from 1942-1945.
Collection 246 Papers of Jessie McDonald
Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection 341 Papers of Victor G. Plymire
Collection 352 Records of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA)
Collection 379 Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society
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.
Collection 394 Oral History Interview with Ruth W. Adeney
Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer
Collection 435 Ephemera of Isobel Miller Kuhn
Collection 470 Oral History Interview with Sadie Custer
Collection 471 Papers of W. Arthur Saunders
Collection 472 Oral History Interview with Paul A. Contento
Collection 534 Papers of Henry and Marguerite Owen
Collection 535 Oral History Interview with Mona Joyce
Collection 562 Papers of Roger and Mary Howes
Collection 593 Papers of Lillian R. Dickson
Collection 677 Papers of Beatrice Sutherland
Materials in this collection include correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, photographs, and a church directory relating to the ministry of Beatrice Sutherland, a missionary to China with the China Inland Mission beginning in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The materials also span her later activities as a Christian worker living in California after her retirement from full-time missionary service in 1976.
David H. Adeney Papers.
Small Collection 097 Papers of Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr.
This collection contains pamphlets, correspondence, reports and articles created by Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr. documenting his internment by the Japanese in China, the great physical and spiritual needs of the people in South Korea following the war there, and the development of the rehabilitation program under Torrey's administration.