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- Rosalyn Sadler helps with preparation of reading materials for use with the literacy program in Liberia (c. early 1950s). Soon after this photo was taken Rosalyn and her husband, Wesley, a missionary linguist, moved on to North Rhodesia to head the African Literacy and Writing Center.
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- Missionary Waidtlow at the laying of the cornerstone of a new church at Port Arthur, China, in 1934.
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- A missionary on a motorcycle in India, ca. 1920.
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- The Rev. and Mrs. Liu Dao Sheng belonged to the Honan-Hepeh-Shensi Synod in China. Pastor Liu served as a guest speaker at retreats at Gustav Carlberg, The Lutheran Theological Seminary in China.
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- Tsingtao Lutheran Hospital Higher Nurses Training School, graduation class, Nov. 15, 1949.
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- India missionaries attending Guntur Conference, October 1916. Among those present is Anna Kugler, a medical doctor who served 47 years in southern India.
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- Madagascar Lutheran missionary children, 1910s-1920s.
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- Joel Mayer, pastor, assisted farmers in India to dig wells for irrigation of rice fields, 1969.
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- Group of Lutheran United Mission, Augustana Synod Mission, and Lutheran Brethren Mission missionaries on their way to China in 1938, during the Sino-Japanese War. Picture taken on the coastwise steamer between Shanghai and Tsingtao.
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- General Council Board of Foreign Missions India — missionary group before 1882, likely in Rajhamundry.
A sampling of the early days of mission work carried out by predecessor Lutheran church bodies.
