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Gates, Dorothy G. Papers

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Identifier: MP-098

Content Description

Collected papers, correspondence and artifacts

Dates

  • Creation: 1839-1982

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 Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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.

Materials may be accessed by request at the American Baptist Historical Society. For more information on accessing collections or obtaining copies, visit http://abhsarchives.org.

Extent

3 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

Multiple languages

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gifts of Dorothy Gates 2002, Church of the Beatitudes 2001; Barbara M. Hartwell 2011, and Donna St. John 2020.

Processing Information

With the collection addition in 2020, Head of Archives and Special Collections Jill Sweetapple re-processed some materials. Boxes 1 through 3 were not changed. The new materials were added and detail was added to the inventory as a whole. Files were arranged alphabetically.

Captions for Gates photos taken in Moulmein, Burma 1950-1962 The photos on the DVD were reproduced from the original slides, and each photo is identified in sequence. The list was compiled by Dr. Esther Byu, Past Director of the Fellowship of the Least Coin:

1. Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon (Yangon) 2. ? 3. Shwedagon Pagoda 4. Looking toward Sule Pagoda (right at the center of city Rangoon) 5. Young girls in traditional dancers' dresses 6. Offerings gifts to young monks/novices 7. Slippers left at the entrance of temple or pagoda 8. Water pots, free drinking for thirsty travelers (at the roadside) - a kind of hospitality 9. One of the Buddhist festivals - head of a mythical bird leading a parade

10. A view of Moulrnein from the plane - between the ridge and the Salween River 11. A road leading to a village with beautiful row of palm trees on both sides 12. Plowing rice field by yoke of oxen 13. Busy market place with a tri-shaw 14. An elephant at work - moving timbers 15. One of the schools? 16. The First Burmese Baptist Church, Moulmein 17. The entrance of the Church - Burmese worshippers with umbrellas 18. Worshipping inside the church 19. A choir singing in the church

20. Pagodas and statue on top of the ridge of Moulmein 21. One of the pagodas 22. ? 23. Tri-shaw - mother carrying a baby and her daughter 24. ? 25. ? 26. Mt. Pleasant (the TB Ward) 27. Moulmein Christian Hospital (Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital) 28. The Main Hospital building (on the right) and Mt. Hope (on left): doctors' residence and sewing room upstairs where Dr. Esther Byu's mother worked as a seamstress(first floor)and Dispensary on the ground floor. 29. The main hospital building

30. Showing the facade of the main building with the inscription: "The Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister" Mark 10:45 31. Mt. Hope - the entrance of the Dispensary 32. ? 33. Nurses quarters, doctors residence, nursing school classroom 34. Doctors residence 35. A horse-drawn cart (a kind of transportation) a lady ready to take a ride 36. Mothers and children waiting at the Dispensary 37. Mothers and children waiting at the Dispensary 38. Nurses and medicines at the Dispensary 39. (From left t.o right) Sister Rosie, Eleanor Smith Howard, Daw Po Byu (wife of the Rev. Po Yein, Pastor of the Mon Baptist Church)

40. Taken in front of the Dispensary (left to right): a Cook for doctors, Dr. Ah Mar, Senior Nurse Thein Thein, Matron Ruth Keyser, Daw Saint (a Bible woman or evangelist), U Chit San (handled X-ray machine), Sister Rosie 41. (Left to right): Dr. Shushila, Dr. Ah Mar, and ? 42. Three nurses in tribal dresses: Karen, Shan, and Chin 43. ? 44. ? 45. Ahka and Lahu women (in their tribal dresses) 46. Pa-O woman (mother and child) 47. (Left to right): Dr. Bina Sawyer, Matron Ruth Keyser, Eleanor Smith Howard - the background shows a corridor connecting nurses' quarters and Mt. Hope 48. Dr. Ruth Po Yein examining a patient (Dr. Ruth is the daughter of Rev. Po Yein and Daw Po Byu 49. Nurses providing sun exposure to babies and children

50. Looks like a maternity ward? 51. U Chit San - I don't know what he's doing 52. Drying hospital linen in the sun 53. Dr. Shushila teaching in a nursing class 54. A nursing training class 55. Graduates at the entrance of the First Burmese Baptist Church, Moulmein, after the Baccalaureate Service. In the third row, standing on the left side: Dr. Bina Sawyer and Matron Ruth Keyser; standing on the right side: Dr. Shushila and Dr. Dorothy Gates 56. Lighting candles during the Baccalaureate Service 57. Taken inside - at the front of the Mon Baptist Church where the Graduation exercise took place. Seated in the front row (left to right) a Sister?, Dr. Ruth Po Yein, Dr. Bina Sawyer, Dr. Shushila, Dr. Dorothy Gates, Matron Ruth Keyser and nurses 58. Seated in a car looking out: Matron Ruth Keyser and Dr. Bina Sawyer. A driver and ? standing beside the car 59. Wedding of one of the nurses named Aye Aye; Sister Thein Thein looked on

60 Susan Haswell? Leprosy Hospital, Moulmein 61. Leprosy hospital Chapel 62. Children from the families of the hospital 63. Workers and a child 64. Dr. Edward operating on a patient 65. ? hospital families living quarters 66. ? two boys and Miss Mirian Shivers (a Missionary working for the Leprosy Mission)in front of the Miss Maxwell? hospital (I can't read the word clearly) 67. Women at the hospital husking rice 68. One of the workers or patients having a meal 69. Spinning thread

70. Weaving 71. Christmas pageant: with words written in Burmese "Goodwill/Good wishes to all who are present." 72. A scene in the pageant 73. A scenery ? 74. A scenery ? 75. Beautiful sunset over the Salween River in Moulmein 76. The two teachers, Sayama Daw E and Sayama Daw Thein Mya who taught at the Morlan Lane Judson High School, Moulmein 77. Playing a kick ball (a cane ball) one of the traditional games in Burma
  • Three volumes, Memoir of Mrs. Ann Judson, Judson Burmese-English Dictionary and Burma Baptist Chronicle. Issues of Burma News.
Title
Dorothy G. Gates
Author
Jill Sweetapple
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2020-11-09: Acquistion added, inventory updated

Repository Details

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