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Card from Shri Rajaram Chhatrapati to the Updegraff family
written by Rajaram Chhatrapati, 1897-1940, in Ann Taylor Allen Personal Collection, of Private Collection , 4 page(s)
This was a Christmas card sent by Rajaram Chhatrapati, the Maharaja of Kolhapur, to the Updegraff family. Like his father, Shahu, Rajaram took a positive view of missionaries and supported their work.
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written by Rajaram Chhatrapati, 1897-1940, in Ann Taylor Allen Personal Collection, of Private Collection , 4 page(s)
Description
This was a Christmas card sent by Rajaram Chhatrapati, the Maharaja of Kolhapur, to the Updegraff family. Like his father, Shahu, Rajaram took a positive view of missionaries and supported their work.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Rajaram Chhatrapati, 1897-1940
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Women, Women and Religion, Support for Imperialism, Social and Political Leadership, Women Missionaries, Indians (Asian), Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Position of Foreign Women Missionaries
in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 331, Folder 1, 70pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1926); edited by Katherine E. Vaughn, fl. 1930; in Changing Leadership: A Report From American Mission Stations Regarding the Place of Women in National Chruches , 55-63
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in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 331, Folder 1, 70pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1926); edited by Katherine E. Vaughn, fl. 1930; in Changing Leadership: A Report From American Mission Stations Regarding the Place of Women in National Chruches , 55-63
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1926
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Contributor
Katherine E. Vaughn, fl. 1930
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Religious Leadership and Religious Activism, Women Missionaries
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Chapter 1: The Question of Form [in China and Change]
written by Lalla Iverson, 1919-2010, in Lalla Iverson Papers, of Yale University. Yale Divinity School. Library (RG8, Box 313, Folder 6, China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection) (New Haven, CT) (1985) , 55 page(s)
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written by Lalla Iverson, 1919-2010, in Lalla Iverson Papers, of Yale University. Yale Divinity School. Library (RG8, Box 313, Folder 6, China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection) (New Haven, CT) (1985) , 55 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1985
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Lalla Iverson, 1919-2010
Topic / Theme
Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Women and Religion, Women as Medical Professionals, Women Missionaries, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Christian civilization and missionary work of the Women's National Indian Association
written by Amelia Stone Swanson Quinton, 1833-1926, in Papers of the Women's National Indian Association 1880-1951, of Cornell University. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (Reel 3) (Ithaca, NY) (Philadelphia, PA: Women's National Indian Association, 1887), 15 page(s)
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written by Amelia Stone Swanson Quinton, 1833-1926, in Papers of the Women's National Indian Association 1880-1951, of Cornell University. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (Reel 3) (Ithaca, NY) (Philadelphia, PA: Women's National Indian Association, 1887), 15 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Amelia Stone Swanson Quinton, 1833-1926
Date Published / Released
30 November 1887, 1887
Publisher
Women's National Indian Association
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women Missionaries, American Indians, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Christmas card from Rajaram Chhatripati, Maharaja of Kolhapur, to the Updegraff family
written by Rajaram Chhatrapati, 1897-1940, in Ann Taylor Allen Personal Collection, of Private Collection (1930) , 3 page(s)
A Christmas card from the Maharaja of Kolhapur, Rajaram Chhatrapati, and his wife and mother to the Updegraffs. The card shows the Maharaja riding with the Viceroy, an official of the British government, in a parade. Rajaram was a Hindu but had been educated partly by missionaries and took a favorable view of th...
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written by Rajaram Chhatrapati, 1897-1940, in Ann Taylor Allen Personal Collection, of Private Collection (1930) , 3 page(s)
Description
A Christmas card from the Maharaja of Kolhapur, Rajaram Chhatrapati, and his wife and mother to the Updegraffs. The card shows the Maharaja riding with the Viceroy, an official of the British government, in a parade. Rajaram was a Hindu but had been educated partly by missionaries and took a favorable view of their work.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1930
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Rajaram Chhatrapati, 1897-1940
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Women, Women and Religion, Support for Imperialism, Social and Political Leadership, Women Missionaries, Indians (Asian), Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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David Updegraff and Melanie Updegraff at Church in the schoolhouse, Nipani [Caption]
in Ann Taylor Allen Personal Collection, of Private Collection , 2 page(s)
The mission at Nipani sponsored several schools that served different populations and age groups. The schools admitted children of all religions. The teachers were native Indian Christians.
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in Ann Taylor Allen Personal Collection, of Private Collection , 2 page(s)
Description
The mission at Nipani sponsored several schools that served different populations and age groups. The schools admitted children of all religions. The teachers were native Indian Christians.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Photograph
Person Discussed
Melanie Updegraff, 1886-1973, David Benjamin Updegraff, 1878-1953
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Women and Religion, Access to Primary Education/Literacy, Women Missionaries, Americans, Indians (Asian), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Diary of Penka Racheva, December 1882-August 1883
written by Penka Racheva, 1865-, in American College for Girls Records, 1880s-1979, of Columbia University. Butler Library. Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Box 28, Folder 10) (New York, NY) (1883) , 31 page(s)
This is a 31-page typewritten transcription of a diary Penka Racheva during the months of January-June, 1883, while she was a student of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. The diary describes her daily life, with an emphasis on religious studies and prayer habits.
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written by Penka Racheva, 1865-, in American College for Girls Records, 1880s-1979, of Columbia University. Butler Library. Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Box 28, Folder 10) (New York, NY) (1883) , 31 page(s)
Description
This is a 31-page typewritten transcription of a diary Penka Racheva during the months of January-June, 1883, while she was a student of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. The diary describes her daily life, with an emphasis on religious studies and prayer habits.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1883
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
Contributor
Anna Roshkeva
Author / Creator
Penka Racheva, 1865-
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Education, Women Missionaries, Access to Higher Education, Bulgarians, Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Eight Letters Home From Margaret Williamson Hospital, West Gate, Shanghai, And Methodist Compound, Zhenjiang, China, June-July 1933
written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 20) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 22 page(s)
This set of letters also includes a photograph of a Chinese child and the July 1933 Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the graduation ceremony of the Woman’s Christian Medical College. Participants in the ceremony include Mrs. C.C. Chen, President of the Board of Directors; Pastor Yu; Dr. Li, Chinese Bureau of...
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written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 20) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 22 page(s)
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This set of letters also includes a photograph of a Chinese child and the July 1933 Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the graduation ceremony of the Woman’s Christian Medical College. Participants in the ceremony include Mrs. C.C. Chen, President of the Board of Directors; Pastor Yu; Dr. Li, Chinese Bureau of Public Health of Shanghai; Dr. H.P. Chu, secretary of the Chinese Medical Association; Dr. Z.T. Wang, President of the Medical College...
This set of letters also includes a photograph of a Chinese child and the July 1933 Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the graduation ceremony of the Woman’s Christian Medical College. Participants in the ceremony include Mrs. C.C. Chen, President of the Board of Directors; Pastor Yu; Dr. Li, Chinese Bureau of Public Health of Shanghai; Dr. H.P. Chu, secretary of the Chinese Medical Association; Dr. Z.T. Wang, President of the Medical College; Dr. Frances King, acting dean; and Dr. Eulo Eno, Superintendent of the hospital. Three women graduated: Ko Wei Huen, Lee Seung Kieng, and Wu Hsiu Djen. People mentioned in the letters include Elizabeth Conard, Eleanor Crosby, Eulo Eno, Dr. Dorothy Galbraith, Dr. Garnick, Julia James, Dr. Francis King, Dr. Kwong, Dr. Josephine Lawney, Dr. Grace Martin, Elsie Rick, Hazel Taylor, and Eleanor Tullock. Topics in the letters include travels to Zenjiang, strawberry festival, a mourning peasant woman, Thriving Girls’ High School, Buddhist temple, Golden Island, out-patient reports, language school in Beijing, interim chief of the Department of Medicine, exams, typhoid, food poisoning, small pox, Pudung (Shanghai), Methodist Women’s Society, St. Luke’s Hospital, commencement, operations, proof of education, an arranged marriage, St. John’s University (Shanghai), gender of babies, Mary Black, and a blood transfusion.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1933
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, Women as Medical Professionals, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Foreign Letters, Summer Conference Number, June -September 1907
written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board. Foreign Department, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 7, 28pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, 1907), 28 page(s)
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written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board. Foreign Department, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 7, 28pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, 1907), 28 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board. Foreign Department
Date Published / Released
1907
Publisher
Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women Missionaries
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Four Letters Home From Margaret Williamson Hospital, West Gate, Shanghai, China, January-February 1933
written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 17) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 19 page(s)
The January 1933 Newsletter offers an overview of the Christmas holiday activities organized by the School of Nursing and the Medical College of the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai, China. Activities included a party for the servants and their families, a formal Christmas Eve program that included a play...
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written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 17) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 19 page(s)
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The January 1933 Newsletter offers an overview of the Christmas holiday activities organized by the School of Nursing and the Medical College of the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai, China. Activities included a party for the servants and their families, a formal Christmas Eve program that included a play and gifts to an independent Chinese Christian orphanage, Christmas morning service, feast, and evening service, Mary Black Home party,...
The January 1933 Newsletter offers an overview of the Christmas holiday activities organized by the School of Nursing and the Medical College of the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai, China. Activities included a party for the servants and their families, a formal Christmas Eve program that included a play and gifts to an independent Chinese Christian orphanage, Christmas morning service, feast, and evening service, Mary Black Home party, and Stevenside caroling. This set also includes January and February letters from Crosby (Standish). People mentioned include: Pete Case, Mr. and Mrs. Chun, Edith Chun, Elizabeth Conard, Eleanor Crosby, Helen Harris, Drs. Nance, Dr. Susanne Parsons, Dr. Qwong. Topics include: cold weather, clinic rotation, noise in the hospital and around town, exam proctor, foodstuffs, a visit with the Chun family, language school, travel in the third class car on the tram, high baby rate, tradition of giving red eggs on the birth of a first son and other local traditions, Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, rainy season, Lester Hospital, cost of living, Missions Buildings, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a detailed description of a local wedding, and rats.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1933
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, Women as Medical Professionals, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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