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A 396 page line diary kept by Dr. Hondelink during his travels in Japan.

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46 black and white photographs and 7 postcards compiled by Stella Graves, a recent graduate of Oberlin College who moved to Japan to teach at the Kobe College. Photographs include images of the college, surrounding area, American teachers, and pictures of students and area residents. Of the postcards, all are of the Kobe College and one of the photographs was taken by Stella Graves. Most of the photographs are captioned.

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One, three page letter from H. W. Ellis, an emancipated emigrant missionary in Liberia, to Charles D. Drake in New York.

Content Description About 80 letters and a small diary of the family of Pastor Edward Hilliard, missionaries to the Tonga in the South Pacific, Melbourne, Australia, Tazmania, and Bangalore, India. The Hilliards were the first Seventh Day Adventist missionaries to the island of Tongo in 1895. Edward and his wife built a home and established a school while there. They also brought two Tongan boys into their home to train them to become future missionaries. The letters focus on the teaching the family does as...

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A 396 page line diary, 78 film negatives, and 55 glass slides created by Garrett Hondelink during a missionary trip to Kagoshima, Japan. The diary entries include descriptions of daily life, travel throughout Japan, and interactions with other missionaries as well as with Japanese officials.

The negatives and glass slides feature images from Hondelink's travels, showing local people, buildings, and landmarks.

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Papers of Helen L. Johnson, circa 1925-1940, covering her activities with the Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Home Missionary Society. Materials include letters addressed to Johnson, photographs, programs, fliers, prayers and religious songs and other ephemera of a religious nature. Geographic areas covered include Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and New York State.