Mission Photographs 1899, 1907.

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Mission Photographs 1899, 1907.

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This series contains 83 sepia-toned photographs of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States (GS) India mission field and its missionaries in 1899 and 1907. All photographs, except for one, are contained in an album. The photographs in this album are duplicates of ones taken for inclusion in the Exhibition of the Ecumenical Missionary Conference held in New York in 1900. The front page of the album provides further explanation. Subject matter of album photographs includes mission buildings, the industrial school for girls, the boys boarding school, individual congregations in Guntur and Chirala, hospital staff, Bible women, evangelists, and missionaries. The additional photograph is of the Guntur field missionaries in 1907. Care should be taken with the handling of the photograph album. Its pages are loose and brittle.

1 box.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States

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Organized in 1820; in 1918 the General Synod reunited with the synods that broke away from it to form the United Lutheran Church in America. From the description of Minutes, 1820-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70924942 ...

General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society.

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See GS 15 Administrative History, GS 15/3 Administrative History. From the description of Mission Photographs 1899, 1907. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 51766792 ...