Hill, Viola Caroline

File — Oversize_Box: Slide3, Box: 4 1/3 smaller slide boxes inside

Identifier: MP-065

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

8 photo albums, 1915-1928, regarding missions in South China, Japan, Philippines, Burma, Bengal-Orissa, and South India; cassette tape of an interview with Viola Hill in which she discusses her work in China, 1982.

Dates

Creation: 1910-1982

Language of Materials

All materials within this collection are in English.

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 Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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.

Biographical / Historical

Baptist missionary. ABFMS missionary in East China, 1915-1949. Viola was appointed by the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society with a designation to Ningpo (Ningbo), East China, on July 14, 1915. It was there, as well as in Shanghai and in Shaohsing (Shaoxing) that she had a career that spanned two World Wars; she last sailed from Shanghai in 1948. Hill graduated in 1910 from the Chicago Baptist Missionary Training School and served for two years as a teacher in Puerto Rico. After further study at the University of Redlands, she received her appointment to China.

Extent

1.4 Linear Feet (4 small slide boxes, 1/2 manuscript box, scrapbook box)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gifts of Viola Hill 1977, and from Wilma L. Locke, 1994, and 1997

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Missionary Correspondence

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

Boxes 1-4 are slides

Box 5: Scrapbook, This is Your Life, Several glass slides and their prints, Photo albums: A 1915-1917 Ningho and 1915-1916 Nanking, B Ningho 1917-1919 and South China 1918, C Ningho 1919-1921, D Ningho 1921, E Sep 1922 –Jun 1924 Ningho, F 1924-1926 Japan, Ningho and Huchow, G 1926-1917 Ningho, Peking, Shaoshing and Philippines, H 1927 Philippines, University of Shanghai, Burma, India and Egypt

Box 6: scrapbooks and mementoes – 1921 to Dec 31 1926, Mar 1926 to Jun 1926, Jun 1926 to Feb 1927

Box 7: 1927, 1927 and 1928, Sep 1930 to Dec 1931, Aug 1933 to Sep 1932, Aug 1933 to Aug 1935, 1946 to 1948, 1940 to 1953 including return to China, 1949 to 1977, Present Sino-Japanese conflict note pages Scripts; Franklin College Chapel Ministry, projectionist's guide; Soundtrack for Filmstrip: Franklin College Chapel Ministry, About 22 minutes, 1/4" audio tape; Slides from Africa: Mahagua.

Box 8: Photograph album given to Hill as Japanese missionary to Santa Ana in 1910. With Latin America, El Salvador and Puerto Rico images.