China -- Description and travel.
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer
Collection 418 Papers of Hester H. Withey
Collection 435 Ephemera of Isobel Miller Kuhn
Collection 678 Oral History Interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox
Eleanor R. Elliott Papers
Helen Frame Oral History Interview
Ian and Helen Anderson Papers
Malcolm and Helen Sawyer Oral History Interviews
Miriam J. Dunn Papers
Nathan Walton Collection
This collection contains two letters and several items related to the drowning of missionary George E. King in 1927. The letters describe Nathan and Lois Walton's travel as missionaries with China Inland Mission, and a Bible conference for Chinese Christians. Also includes CIM newsletter and report which describe the treacherous raft trip made by 38 missionaries and their families who were withdrawing from the Kansu Province during which King drowned.
Otto F. Schoerner Papers
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.
Paul and Catharine Gieser Papers
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.
Small Collection 076 Papers of Edwin W. Fisch
This collection contains a prayer letter from Edwin William Fisch, a missionary with China Inland Mission, detailing his first days in China including descriptions of his arrival in Shanghai, the China Inland Mission compound and hospital, Shanghai street life, visits to training institutes, medical facilities, leading a worship service, travel on the Yangtze River, and the working classes.
Small Collection 078 Papers of Ralph and Helen Scoville
This collection contains three prayer letters describing Ralph and Helen Scovilles' missionary work in China; travel from Shanghai to Ningsha, Kansu Province (now Yinchuan, Gansu) and raid and 23-day occupation of Ningsha by Muslim bandits.
Small Collection 085 Papers of Harold and Helen Hayward
This collection contains one prayer letter from Harold D. and Helen M. Hayward, describes the Haywards' overland travel as China Inland Mission workers with a description of the countryside and cities enroute to Xining, their assigned station, near the Tibetan border.