Foreign Missions Library Lantern Slide Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1991.04
name: label: Creator
content: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
label: Names
content: Red Cross
place: label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.)
label: Place
content: Iran
label: Place
content: Tehran (Iran)
label: Place
content: Iran -- Tehran -- Tehran
topic: label: Topic
content: Missionaries -- Iran
creator: label: Creator
content: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Iran Mission was established by the U.S. Presbyterian Board of Mission in 1870, taking over the work of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Hundreds of the organization's missionaries were stationed in Iran. The first missionary to arrive was Justin Perkins (1805-1869), active in Persia from 1835 to 1869, establishing the Nestorian Mission at Urmia. Samuel Martin Jordan (1871-1952) arrived in Iran in 1898 and spent 43 years there, establishing among other institutions the Alborz High School (American College of Tehran). The Mission's functions were transferred to the Evangelical Church of Iran in 1965, until missionaries were ultimately removed from the country in 1969.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 98 Lantern slides (black and white and color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Alan O. Bellak, 1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1991.04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Images divided into the following section: market scenes, daily living, carpets, missionaries, the Red Cross, hospitals, schools, orphans, pre-Islamic rock reliefs, buildings, railroads, city views, villages, caravans and caravansaries, animals, farmers and fields, mountains, women and men.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Lantern slides, undated, some hand-tinted, assembled by the Foreign Missions Library of New York City to document missionary activities in Iran, probably during the early part of the twentienth century. Included are images of missionaries and evangelists, Fiske seminary, The American High School for Boys in Tehran, the Memorial School for Boys in Tabriz, the Red Cross, orphans, place views and architecture, a house interior, daily activities such as rug weaving and plowing, livestock, and people such as Kurdish women and a dervish. The slides are hand-colored and black and white, and many are captioned.