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Proctor Family Papers

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-1213

Dates

  • Existence: 1922 to 1980

Biographical / Historical

Baptist missionary. Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society missionary in China.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (1 letter manuscript box, one small flat box, 1 records carton)

2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Missionary Correspondence

Separated Materials

Immanuel (Baptist Church) Story, 1855-1955, published for the Centenary Celebration October 2-9, 1955 of the Immanuel Baptist Church, Rangoon, Burma. Filed in the ABHS library collection.

Bibliography

Stub entry from A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the American Baptist Historical Society, compiled by William H. Brackney and Susan M. Eltscher (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1986).

File Plan

Box 1 1. China Baptist Council, Swatow, 1930 2. Correspondence, 1948-1950, primarily concerning evacuation 3. Correspondence, 1925-1927, John Thomas (J.T.) Proctor 4. Correspondence, 1926-1927, Nellie M. Proctor 5. East China Projects, n.d. 6-7. Here I Made My Home by Mildred Proctor, 1977 8. Immanuel (Baptist Church) Story, 1855-1955, published for the Centenary Celebration October 2-9, 1955 of the Immanuel Baptist Church, Rangoon, Burma. Filed in the ABHS library collection. 9. Introducing Mrs. Gyi, written by Mildred Proctor about the woman who was the “guardian of the gate” at the Mission, 1939 10. Correspondence and news from China, 1935-1949, Mildred Proctor 11. The New East, October 1922 12. News clippings, 1938-1949 13. Photograph, Yuih Kwong Middle and elementary schools, spring, 1948 14. The Proctors, J.T. and Nellie, by Mildred Proctor, 1980 15. Shaohsing Industrial Mission; photographs - Multiple versions of the story of the Shaohsing Industrial Mission where Mildred Proctor worked, some versions written by her, one by Mrs. Frank Goddard. These provide details about the items produced by the Mission, both linens and dolls. Photograph of J.T. and Nellie Proctor with China friends (no date), and one of JT Proctor alone (1927). Names of the friends are listed. 16. University of Shanghai, 30th anniversary materials 17. University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Box 2 Linens - embroidered linen (or grass cloth) items, created by women who worked at the Shaohsing Industrial Mission in the 1930s and 1940s. The mission was a project of the Chekiang-Shanghai Baptist Convention. The linens belonged to Mildred Proctor, who directed the mission from 1934 until 1940, or had perhaps been given to her sister Helen Proctor Padelford.

Box 3 Set of 14 small handmade dolls made by the Shaohsing Industrial Mission; Linens Items in boxes 2 and 3 include: Runner/bureau scarf with blue embroidery, Card table size cloth with blue dragon and other embroidery, Single blue mat with blue embroidery, Two mats with gold dragons and other embroidery, Six tiny embroidered napkins, One guest type towel with embroidered pendant, Two small card table size cloths and eight napkins, embroidered with various designs.

Box 4 (Many of the booklets are written by Mildred Proctor) Photographs; Miscellaneous correspondence and reports; Chinese language bulletins; General Assembly of the Church of Christ in China; Christian Literature Society 1940s; National Committee on Christian Education in China; National Christian Council 1920s; Religious Education Fellowship 1940s; Historical notes, East China Baptist Mission, J. Goddard; Harold S. Matthews study on Christian missions in China; booklets of bible teaching materials in Chinese; Pendidikan Agama Kristen Untuk Anak-Anak; As Criancas sao Importantes; Story of the South Asia series

Box 5 Correspondence on J.T.’s death; Correspondence and writing 1922-1991; Mokashan house; Newsletter Jewett College

(Many of the booklets written by Mildred Proctor) Booklets of bible teaching materials in Chinese; So You’re Going to Teach Children; How to Teach Sunday School; The Christian Education of Children; Working Together with God; Report of Chinese Christian Curriculum Conference for South East Asia, Nov 1960; Religious Education Fellowship bulletins 1948-1950; Advance program for Children’s work in China; Why Lay Training, 1948

Status
Completed
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the American Baptist Historical Society Repository

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