Some missionaries and their work in Alaska

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Some missionaries and their work in Alaska

1959

https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/5652366

Scrapbook of postcards and other ephemera collected during a trip to coastal Alaska. Includes a narrative by Ms. Jones and various fact sheets and profiles on Alaska and its missions, as well as reverend biographies, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Items relateing to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Skagway, and Juneau, the First Presbyterian Church, the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, and other Alaskan political and religious figures. Also, a baby's Indian moccasin.

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