Children of missionaries -- China
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
American School Kikungshan and American School Kikungshan Association Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 164
Overview:
Reports, correspondence, photographs, and collected material document the history of the American School Kikungshan and its graduates. The American School Kikungshan was a school for missionary children established by the Lutheran missions in China. The American School Kikungshan Association is the alumni/ae association of the school.
Dates:
1900-2014
China American Schools Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 209
Overview:
This collection contains documentation of schools for missionary children in China and the alumni associations of the schools. Records of the Kuling American School, North China American School, and Peking American School are included in this record group. For documentation of the Shanghai American School and American School Kikungshan, see separate record groups, RG 132 and RG 164.
Dates:
1919-2014
Ingram Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 325
Overview:
Extensive correspondence in the Ingram Family Papers provides insight into China in the early twentieth century with descriptions of missionary and medical activities over thirty years, including exile during the Boxer Rebellion, work in convalescent hospitals and famine refugee camps in the wake of World War I, views inside the Forbidden City in the last years of the Qing dynasty, and documentation of the expat culture of Beijing and repatriation amid the chaos of World War II.
Dates:
1887 - 1986
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Ingram Family Papers
Sarah Refo Mason Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 175
Overview:
This collection provides valuable collected research files on a variety of subjects, including: missionary children, the Canton (Guangzhou) YMCA, True Light Middle School, women in China, Lingnan University, the Hmong (Miao) people, and the Presbyterian Mission Home (Cameron House) in San Francisco. The collection also contains documentation related to the life and work of Sarah Refo Mason and her parents, Henry and Sarah F. Refo. Sarah Refo Mason (1930-2002), the child of missionaries to...
Dates:
1866-1999
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Sarah Refo Mason Papers
McCandliss-Judson Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 248
Overview:
This collection documents the life and work of Herbert Alfred and Ruth McCandliss Judson, who were Presbyterian missionaries to China, stationed primarily in Lianzhou (Linchow), Guangdong province from 1919 to 1927. Herbert and Ruth were children and siblings of missionaries to China and these papers also shed light on the lives and work of their families, in particular Olivia Kerr McCandliss, mother of Ruth McCandliss Judson. She was the daughter of John G. Kerr, who was well known for...
Dates:
1879-1952
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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McCandliss-Judson Family Papers
Shanghai American School Records, including the Phoebe White Wentworth Collection of Shanghai American School History and Memorabilia
Collection
Call Number: RG 132
Overview:
During the WWII years 1941-1945, however, various spin-offs of SAS were organized by former teachers that kept the school going (under different names), including a school established in a Japanese internment camp. A final spin-off, the Private America School, continued the basic SAS curriculum until 1950 when the Communist government forced the school's closure. The Shanghai American School (SAS) was founded in 1912 for the purpose of educating the children of American missionaries,...
Dates:
1911-2016