Repository: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Subject: Missionaries - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.2 linear ft. (1 album)
Abstract:: The collection consists of a photo album that documents Dorothy Franklin's missionary work in Bolivia and her travel in South America during the inter war period. There are 161 original photographs in the album, mostly taken during her time in South America, however the last four pages are also dedicated to Franklin's home life in the US and her family. The albums containts photos of landscapes, Franklin herself and her associates, llamas, and pictures from the Bible school.

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Extent:: .1 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: An account of Emmanuel Crespel's shipwreck on the southern tip of Anticosti Island, while attempting to return to France from Canada. Translated from the French by Isaac Gray.

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Extent:: .75 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to 1932 and to Gordon Townsend and Jane T. Bowles from 1932 to 1960. This correspondence is essentially family correspondence, but also includes information regarding the Bowles' Quaker relief work, their views on Quakerism and their day-to-day activities.

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Extent:: .1 linear ft. (3 folders)
Abstract:: Manuscript for a biography of Arthur Shearly Cripps by Douglas Steere.

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Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Abstract:: Materials documenting the life of Esther Balderston Jones during her time as a missionary in Japan (1914-1924) and from her father, Lloyd Balderston, about family history and geneology.

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Extent:: 12 linear ft. (22 boxes and 1 photograph in tube)
Abstract:: The papers document the lives of service of Quakers Gilbert Bowles (1869-1960) and Minnie Picket Bowles (1868-1958), Quaker missionaries and ministers in Asia and Hawaii for over 60 years, from 1896-1960.

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