Disaster relief -- China
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Emery and Elvera Carlson Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 246
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and collected material document the work of Emery W. Carlson and Elvera Teed Carlson, Lutheran missionaries serving in China from 1940 to 1949. Emery Carlson was a medical doctor who worked at the Lutheran Hospital in Xuchang, Henan (Hsuchang, Honan) province from 1941 to 1944. He was active in famine relief work 1942-1944 and in 1945 became an intelligence officer working for the Office of Strategic Services behind Japanese lines in Henan. After the war Carlson...
Dates:
1928-1980, bulk 1940-1949
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Emery and Elvera Carlson Papers
Dwight W. Edwards Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 12
Overview:
The papers document Dwight W. Edwards' work in China, particularly with the YMCA in Beijing (Peking), which was sponsored by the Princeton University Student Christian Association. The famine relief work of various organizations in China is also well documented. Edwards was a missionary in China from 1906 to 1949. He was active in YMCA work, particularly in Beijing (Peking), and in famine relief work throughout China from 1920 to 1949. Edwards held leadership positions with the China...
Dates:
1905-1982
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Dwight W. Edwards Papers
George and Mary Schlosser Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 19
Overview:
The papers document the work of the conservative Free Methodist Church in central China. Both George and Mary Schlosser was active in evangelistic work in the countryside and came in close contact with the Chinese people. Famine relief work, societal routine, and the disruption of Chinese society during the period 1908 to 1949 are documented. George and Mary Ogren Schlosser were missionaries under the Free Methodist Church Foreign Missionary Board. Stationed primarily in Henan (Honan) Province,...
Dates:
1901-1988