Missionary

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1915 letter written by a student at Huguenot Seminary while at Kalk Bay in South Africa. 12 pages on three folded sheets.  SOLD

Price: $150.00

Note: Founded by Dr Andrew Murray in 1874, the Huguenot Seminary was the first institution of its kind for girls in South Africa. It was modelled on the lines of Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Its marked religious character served to commemorate the Huguenots.The Huguenot Seminary established Wellington as an important centre of education and gave rise to a succession of educational institutions where girls and women were also accommodated. In 1896 a Training College for teachers was established, in 1899 the Huguenot College (from 1920 until 1950, Huguenot University College), and in 1899 the Huguenot Girls’ High School. The Teachers’ Training College now goes by the name of the Boland College of Education. The University College reverted to its original name of Huguenot College in 1951 and trains social workers, youth workers and mission workers. The Huguenot Girls’ High School merged with the Boys’ School in 1954 and is now known as the Huguenot High School.

MOB 337Original archival grouping documenting the 1916–1917 activities of the Paxton Training School, Kiungchow (Qionghai), Hainan, China, a Presbyterian mission institution founded in the early 20th century to train local Chinese Christian workers. Included are multiple typed letters on period stationery from Rev. Wilbur M. Campbell, then superintendent, addressed to Mrs. William Paxton of Princeton, New Jersey, the school’s principal benefactor. The correspondence reports on the Second Annual Field & Track Meet held December 15, 1916, school enrollment, staffing, curriculum, and mission events, and provides insight into the strained international climate of the period, noting tensions between the U.S., Germany, and Mexico. The collection contains two bilingual event programs printed on orange paper, one in English listing 21 competitive events such as dashes,MOB 337 high jumps, shot put, arithmetic race, relay race, and tug of war, and a matching Chinese-language version. Also present is the program for the school’s Second Annual Graduating Exercises, likewise in both languages. A period black-and-white photograph depicts the winners of track events in athletic uniforms, posed in front of the Kiungchow mission church, with a large Chinese caption board; the reverse is inscribed in ink, “Paxton Training School, Kiungchow, Hainan, China. Winners of track events at Field Meet Dec. 15, 1916.” Accompanying these are a detailed multi-page typed “Report of Paxton Training School” for Aug. 24, 1916–Jan. 19, 1917, signed by Campbell, describing faculty assignments, enrollment statistics, tuition, scholarships, and student outcomes. The original mailing envelope from Campbell in Kiungchow to Mrs. Paxton in Princeton is included. Condition varies, with folds, small edge tears, and minor paper loss to some sheets, consistent with age and handling. Together, these materials provide a primary-source record of an American Presbyterian mission school in early Republican-era China, illustrating its educational, athletic, and evangelistic activities during a pivotal historical moment.

Price: $600.00

NOTE: For more information on the Paxton Training School, refer to The Isle of Palms: Sketches of Hainan The American Presbyterian Mission, Island of Hainan, South China. Printed at the Commercial Press Ltd., Shanghai, 1919.

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Photo album compiled by a Catholic missionary in 1934-1935 operating in various village locations on the north-west coast of Bougainville Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea. Individual portraits include: Sister M. Camille, Father J. Conley, Father Godert, Holala (native), Father Jones, Kato (native), Father Lebel, Father Lebreton, S.M., Nurse McRay, Father P. Montauban, Father Muller, Father Chaize Pinace, Father Poncelet, S.M., Father Schlickers, Father G. Servant, Rev. Mother Marie Rose, Father Seiller, S.M, Bishop Thomas Wade, S.M.,* and Wong-You (native).

MOB 336MOB 336Views of various missions and villages including: Abacio, Bei, Buin District, Buka, Gagan River, Green Island, Ieta-Buka Passage, Katuku, Kieta, Kieta Harbor, Kieta - China Town, Koromira, Lemanmana, Mauguai, Nissan Munol, Patupatuai, Tarlena, Timbuts, and Turiboiru.

The album contains 95 silver-print photographs - 3.5 x 5 inches, with many legibly captioned.

Price: $700.00

Note from Wikipedia: * Thomas James Wade (August 4, 1893 – June 11, 1969) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, MOB 336Wade was ordained a priest on June 15, 1922, for the Society of Mary. On July 3, 1930, Wade was appointed bishop for the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and auxiliary bishop of Barbalissus. Wade was ordained bishop on October 14, 1930; he resigned on June 14, 1960. As the first native English-speaking Catholic bishop in the Pacific missions, Wade was able to secure strong support from Australia and the United States, and his mission was successful despite major disruption during the Japanese occupation.

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April 1959 issue (#69) Maddrid Misionero.

Price: $30.00

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Missionary booklet Hermanas Misioneras de Nuestra Senora de Africa.

Price: $90.00

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Missionary booklet Venid a mi Todos, by the Consagracion al Corazon de Jesus.

Price: $25.00

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Spanish missionary game Doctrina Cristiana 1er grau. Complete and in working order. C1920.

Price: $200.00

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2 lengthy letters relating to China-based medical missionary Dr. Claude E. Forkner, dated 1935. One is from his mother Lucy Forkner (1875-1954), a missionary teacher working in Peiping, and another from a fellow American missionary with the Chinese name Mei Lien. She calls herself “the prune companion”. Both letters come with their original envelopes. They are very detailed accounts of being in China and mentions about war and the Chinese people being humiliated. Also a photo of Lucy and a friend Molly. It is getting very difficult to find missionary letters from China.  SOLD

Price: $200.00

Note: Marion Dubois Forkner was married to Dr. Claude E. Forkner. They lived in Beijing from 1932-1937. They had 4 children: Thomas, Claude, Helen and Lucy. In 1934 Claude was professor of medicine at Peking Union Medical Center. In 1944 he was director of the China Medical Board, in Beijing. After the war he was the personal physician to the Shah of Iran.

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Hoja de Propaganda Misionera. #1. Publicada por Immaculata Seminario C.C.

Price: $35.00

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1 issue of El Hogar Misionero. November, 1945.

Price: $40.00