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Date: ca. 1862 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Image of a building acquired by the AME with the help of Mr. Thayer, the American Consul-General, from the Viceroy Sa'id Pasha, in 1862. It stood at the west end of Muski Street (spelled "Musky" on the slide) and was the first property owned by the AME. Up to that time, the missionaries had bee... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1870 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Image of the chapel at Assiut College, which was founded in 1870. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1925 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Portrait of five "ministers" (pastors?) who are not identified. They appear to include one missionary and four Egyptian pastors. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1897 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Image of seven graduates of Assiut College with three staff members : J.R. Alexander, Carrie Buchanan and S.G. Hart. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1897 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Image of 11 staff members and instructors, including J.R. Alexander, Carrie Buchanan and S.G. Hart. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1920 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Medical ministry was undertaken by the AME beginning with the arrival of Dr. D.R. Johnston and his wife Margaret in 1868. By 1891, a small clinic was established in Asyut by Dr. L.M. Henry. This image shows the hospital building about 1920. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1864 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: In 1864, a Punjabi prince, the Maharajah Dulip Singh (son of Runjit Singh) visited Egypt. He was a Protestant convert and became acquainted with the AME staff, serving as a benefactor to the Mission. He requested the help of John Hogg and Sarah Dales to find him a pious Christian wife, and they... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1928 Contributing Institution: Asbury Theological Seminary B. L. Fisher Library Description: Book display in a bookstore window. Many copies of ESJ's "Christ at the Round Table" book are shown in the display with several signs that say the following: "A Sincere, Vital and Challenging Book That Compels Deep Consideration" and "Important New Missionary Book, Just Published, "Christ at th... -
Date: ca. 1870 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: John Hogg arrived in Egypt from Edinburgh in 1856 with his wife Bessie Kay, at the invitation of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. His life story is related by their daughter, Rena L. Hogg, in the book "Master Builder on the Nile" (1914), and in Andrew Watson, "The American Missio... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1920 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: A portrait of Robert Stewart McClenahan (not McClanahan) and his wife Margaret. They joined the AME in 1897. R.S. McClenahan was the Secretary/Treasurer of Assiut College, and Professor of Ethics and Biblical Instruction. He joined with Charles R. Watson to start the American University in Cairo,... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1856 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Portrait of Gulian Lansing, who arrived in Nov 1856, after five years of experience in the Syria Mission. He later married the first single woman assigned to the Egypt field, Sarah B. Dales, who arrived in 1858. Lansing was the author of "Egypt's Princes : Missionary Labor in the Valley of the ... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1901 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Image of the American Mission building in the Ezbekia district of Cairo View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1861 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: Image of building in the Ezbekia district of Cairo used as a school for girls. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1940/1949 Contributing Institution: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Description: A large group of men, women, and children. Written on verso: Get acquainted social. View Full Item at Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library -
Date: 1910 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: A list on paper found with the slides reads "Girls College Original Building." This view shows the extensive gardens that surrounded the College. The building was made possible by a gift of $18,000 from John D. Rockefeller in 1907. See Elder, pp. 133-34. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1952 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: A list on paper found with the slides reads "Girls College today." The photo represents the school as it had developed up to the Centennial of the American Mission in 1954. View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: ca. 1861 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: The Ibis was the houseboat on which the AME missionaries traveled between Cairo and Upper Egypt, conducting worship and evangelistic work, distributing literature and so on. The Ibis was purchased and refitted by Dulip Singh in 1865 for a honeymoon trip with his bride Bamba, and in 1874 was dona... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library -
Date: 1940 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Post card advertising book by Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter on the Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace. The picture shows Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of Mills Collecge, addressing a crowd of over 10,000 on "The Gospel of America " at the "Keep America Out of War Meeting." View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1925/1935 Contributing Institution: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Description: "Mammy", a woman with headscarf. View Full Item at Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library -
Date: 1885 Contributing Institution: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Description: This image shows the male AME missionaries present thirty years into the organization's history. In the front row, left to right : William Harvey, John Hogg, Gulian Lansing, S.C. Ewing, and Andrew Watson. In the back row, left to right : Chauncey Murch, John Giffen, Elmer Lansing M.D., J.R. Alexa... View Full Item at Union Presbyterian Seminary Library