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Mason, Nettie Louisa Purssell Papers

 Item
Identifier: RG-1564

Content Description

The paper group is primarily photographs and pamphlets, not personal correspondence, or as the original notation says, “Sketches, Letters and Group photos, Assam Mission” from Mrs. M.C. Mason. n.d.

Dates

  • Creation: 1897 to 1939

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

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Extent

.4 Linear Feet (1 letter size manuscript box)

Language of Materials

English

Condition Description

Good

File Plan

I. PHOTOGRAPHS Scrapbook of photos several of Taj Mahal and other tourist sites, as well as Assam mission photos, mostly unidentified as to date, people, place Small handmade scrapbook, “Earthquake, June 12, 1897, Tura, Assam” '>'Photo of Emma Keeler Mason and G. L. Mason missionary family in Huchau, China, January 1898, with identification of children also. '>'Wallet size portrait of Sendai, Japan missionary Anna S. Buzzell, c. 1935 • Collage of 44 women missionaries, each identified, beginning with Emma Rauschenbusch and including Lulu Fleming, 1890s, Chicago photographer. • Large mission conference photo (apparently) with no date or ID, except a line to what looks like Mr. M.C. Mason. • Jack Tree with native • Snapshot of Masons in bullock cart with helper • One printed page of 4 portraits of female missionaries in Japan; Mrs. H. Carpenter, Mrs. J. C. Bran, Miss H M Browne, Miss L Mead. II. Handwoven textile belt, poor condition III. Misc. pamphlets, newsletters, and clippings • Over the Hills by A. F Merrill (8 May 1939), 12 pp, with line illustrations. Mimeographed letter about work in Tura, Assam. • His Father’s Place, Missionary Episodes #1, American Baptist Female Missionary Society (1914), 6 pp. • Garo Reader, incomplete—two pages (pp23/24). Poor condition • Missions In Assam [by Rev. E. G. Phillips and Rev. M.C. Mason], American Baptist Missionary Union, 44 pp. n.d. • From One Tongue to Another, British and Foreign Bible Society (1927), 8 pp. • Middle English Girls’ School, Tura, Assam [by Miss Fern Rold and Miss Ruth Teasdale] • Assam Census Report of 190 by B. C. Allen [actually a report of the intro essay by K. S. MacDonald], 16 pp. plus several clippings, including one on “Christianity in Assam/Revivalist Wave” in Lushai Hills. Port in Calcutta. • The Child in the Home, by Nettie P. Mason (1918), Christian Literature Society for India, 16 pp. illustrations. • Joka, A Temperance Tale, by Nettie Purssell Mason, Christian Literature Society for India (1913), 21 pp. illustrations. Postcard album

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Repository Details

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