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19235584Various locations in Guatemala and Mexico 1923. Very good. 145 real photo postcards photographs and printed pictorial postcards thirty-eight with manuscript notes on verso. Minor wear overall. A wonderful collection of images featuring the people and places involved with the educational missionary work of Lula Maud Jackson later Tolosa of Birmingham Michigan. Jackson was a Baptist missionary teacher at schools in El Salvador Cuba Mexico and Guatemala before returning to Michigan in the early-1920s. Not long after her return Lula married an El Salvadorian minister named Ramon Alberto Tolosa in Michigan on June 26 1923; apparently Tolosa moved to Michigan to be with Lula and thereafter established the First Mexican Baptist Church in Saginaw where he remained as pastor until his retirement in 1975. The present collection of photographs feature numerous people and places Jackson knew during her time in Latin America.<br /> <br /> The collection contains a few photographs that appear to include Jackson but the great majority show various native settings and subjects including the children she was teaching pictured in class group shots. Most are not captioned but many of these images are dated in 1921. The images feature students at play fruit vendors carrying large baskets churches and other buildings and more. Almost forty of the images however which are mostly portrait postcards or photographs include inscriptions to Lula on the verso from the numerous named subjects. All of the captions are written in Spanish. Seventeen of these identify various subjects in Mexico by name including multiple members of the same family in one case. One postcard is covered completely on the verso with the musical notation and lyrics of a song called "Ven a El pecador!" Two of these postcards were actually postmarked to Lula in Cuba while she was there in 1916 and 1919. Eighteen of these annotated real photo postcards were sent to Lula by her soon-to-be husband Ramon Tolosa all but one in either May or early June 1923 before the couple married later in June of that year. At the time Ramon was working in Tampico Mexico from where he sent all of these postcards. The postcards are not postmarked indicating Ramon may have sent them inside other letters; plus the captions contain straightforward descriptions of the subjects and settings of the postcards and not the personal correspondence that might be expected from two people about to be married. All in all a diverse and personal collection of images of Mexico kept by a missionary teacher from Michigan to memorialize her earlier work there offering several avenues for further research. unknown
193912870Various locations mostly in India 1939. Two contemporary photograph albums bound in matching black cloth. Album 1: 47 leaves illustrated with 347 mounted photographs including a handful of real photo postcards profusely captioned in white pencil on album leaves. Album 2: 30 leaves illustrated with 285 photographs including some real photo postcards and commercial images with only a few manuscript captions. Oblong quarto. A unique pictorial record of American Christian missionary service in India during the years of the Great Depression detailing the life and work of Seventh Day Adventists Edward and Edna Mabel Pohlman. Edward Pohlman 1906-1970 and Edna Mabel 1906-1997 married in 1928 and served in the Northern India Union NIU Section which was part of the Southern Asia Division from 1929 to 1946. While in India it appears that the Pohlman family lived at least in Mussoorie Roorkee and Poona during which time they had one son Edward Wendell born in Punjab in 1933. The father Edward received an M.A. and PhD from Ohio State University. The couple likely lived in Roorkee early on where Pohlman likely taught at Roorkee Adventist College as there are images of the faculty at Roorkee their bungalow and so forth. They may also have been associated with the Vincent Hill School in Mussoorie of which there are several images. He definitely taught theology at Spicer Missionary College Now Spicer Adventist University in Poona Pune and became president of Spicer in 1939 a position he held until 1946. Spicer College was the church’s flagship educational institution in India. Pohlman also held SDA conference positions including educational and missionary volunteer secretary for the Southern Asia Division.<br /> <br /> The SAD NIU section focused on establishing mission schools doing medical work publishing and direct preaching aiming to spread the gospel this way. The organization worked to establish churches and develop indigenous leadership and self-supporting missions in communities across northern India. The albums only pertain to his time in India but following his time there Pohlman taught at the Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio then in 1958 was a Fulbright lecturer in sociology and anthropology at the University of Karachi and then served as executive director of the U. S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan. In 1960 he joined Queens College in Charlotte North Carolina where he taught and was head of the sociology and anthropology departments until his death. He was fluent in Urdu and Hindustani.<br /> <br /> The first few images in the first album document the Pohlman's trip from New York to India as a young married couple in 1929. They spent some time in England and the Holy Land before arriving in India. The first images from India show their first house in Mussoorie and the Vincent Hill School which was part of the SDA educational system. Other early India images feature Najababad including a dispensary a village meeting and their colleagues the Kimble's bungalow there plus an image of a building captioned "Northwest Union Headquarters of our work" in Lucknow. The next group of photos are of Roorkee in 1931 picturing another SDA school the Roorkee Adventist College the faculty a group of students a sewing class a Bible class and a dispensary. Numerous images include Edna and Edward as well as their colleagues the Steeves the Kimbles the Garners and others. One shows Edna and four young men and is captioned "my first English class."<br /> <br /> Several historic photographs relate to important SDA events meetings and facilities. One of the bigger photographs shows a very large group and is captioned "workers from India Burma & Ceylon at Poona SDA Council 1931." Another shows the Division Headquarters at Poona and a third shows attendees from the Northwest India Union that attended the Poona Council in 1931. Another group of images shows workers and students at the SDA Colporteur Institute a school that trained people to evangelize and pass out literature. Another shows 17 Abbott Road in Lucknow the location of the SAD Publishing House. There are also images of the Seventh Day Adventist Training School many uncaptioned images of SDA student and graduate groups and some of Edna or Edward with their students.<br /> <br /> Other photographs illustrate the missionaries' lives through their bungalows outings trips to Kashmir a large group of images Lahore and Delhi riding elephants celebrating Christmas and more. Other images show local people harvesting sugar cane bathing in the Ganges a pilgrim knee-walking a street sewing service Indian weddings a group in front of the Seventh Day Adventist Training School many uncaptioned images of SDA large and small student and/or graduate groups and more.<br /> <br /> The albums also provide images of the couple's missionary colleagues including several who traveled out to India with them and some who were especially notable. These include:<br /> <br /> John Milton Steeves 1905-1998 an important SDA missionary and educator who became a career diplomat serving as acting ambassador to Jakarta Indonesia deputy assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs 1959-62 and ambassador to Afghanistan 1966-69. The Steeves family lived in Western Washington between 1919 and 1927 where Steeves graduated from Walla Walla College an SAD-affiliated school and the University of Washington.<br /> <br /> Raleigh and Edna Garner from Nampa Idaho who served sixteen years in India then pastored in Idaho. Garner also graduated from Walla Walla College.<br /> <br /> Ray LeRoy R.L. Kimble 1890-1972 and his wife Jessie M. Estep Kimble. Kimble was a pastor and missionary who served in India from around 1915 to 1950 and was president of the Northern India Union Section from 1946 to 1950. His wife was principal of the North Agra Mission Girl's School from 1930 to 1932; earlier they ran a sanitarium at Bombay. After India's independence Kimble was part of a delegation in August 1947 that met with Nehru Gandhi and Jinnah to explain the role of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in India.<br /> <br /> Marion Hulda Belchambers 1886-1949 a pioneer teacher administrator and publishing house pioneer who became secretary and treasurer of the Northwest / Northern India Union in 1923.<br /> <br /> The two albums document important contributions made by the Pohlmans and their colleagues to education and healthcare in India and also provide visual documentation of important Seventh Day Adventist events and meetings and insights into the daily lives of missionaries of the period. unknown
1900531900s or earlier No Worldcat/OCLC record in French. SIENHSIEN Mission had been one of the biggest mission in Old China. This was a SIENHSIEN RECRUIT LETTER IN OLD CHINA.<br />Some wear on covers. 12pp. Good. SIENHSIEN Mission, China paperback
