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Title: 54-Year China Trip Ends
Description: Biographical article about Mrs. Anna M. Chuning, returning from a 54-year-long stay in China as a member of the American Christian missionary movement, changing her name there to Ann Chuning Hsiao. Photos, caption, and article about her life, born around 1892 and leaving her native Holt County, Missouri, in 1920, as a missionary.
Date: 1974-03-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Amplissima Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae
Description: Continuation of catalog title: "A R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss. in America septentrionali anno 1687 detectae, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionem negotiis toto orbe celeberrimae." Map shows the eastern states, Florida, the Great Lakes, Louisiana Territory, and portions of Mexico and Canada. Locations of Indian tribes are shown, as well as rivers, mountains, and towns.
Date: 1763~
Object Type: Map

Title: The Autobiography of Isaac McCoy
Description: Collection of publications documenting the life of Isaac McCoy. Also included with this volume are the Articles of Faith and Covenant of the Maria Creek Baptist Church (1809), a letter from Christiana McCoy to Isaac McCoy (ca. 1800s), and a letter from Isaac McCoy to Waller Taylor (1819).
Date: 2011
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Annie J. Scott (1876-??), Missionary, Doctor, and Real Estate Developer
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Johnston Lykins (1800-1876), Missionary, Doctor, and Kansas City's Second Mayor
Date: 2007
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Thomas Johnson (1802-1865), Methodist Minister and Missionary
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: Bishop Anglim Memorial Mass Wednesday
Description: Obituary for Reverend Mario Roberto Emett Anglim, or Mario Anglim, a native Kansas Citian and missionary to Brazil starting in 1949, dying in 1973.
Date: 1973-04-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Dr. E. Stanley Jones
Description: Missionary to India, preacher, and author, Dr. Jones spoke on ''A Nation's Struggle with a Word'' at a SCBA luncheon.
Date: 1956-10-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Interpreting the Shawnee Sun: Literacy and Cultural Persistence in Indian Country, 1833-1841.
Description: Article about the influence of literacy and the press on the Shawnee culture. "The Shawnee Sun is intriguing because it points to Shawnee-missionary collaboration, on the the one hand, and widespread Shawnee resistance to the broader cultural and religious demands associated with Christianity on the other."
Date: 2008
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Letters of Allen T. Ward, 1842-1852: From the Shawnee and Kaw (Methodist) Missions
Description: Biographical article about the letters from 1842 to 1851 of Allen T. Ward, or Allen Ward (1806-1862), with portraits of himself and family members and a picture of the east building of the Shawnee Methodist Mission in Johnson County, Kansas. The letters describe his "impressions" and experiences of the place, Indians, fellow missionaries and other settlers, and the surrounding area's activities including Kansas City and the 1849 cholera epidemic (pages 364-371).
Date: 1967
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Notes on Records from Early Christian Mission Writers
Description: Article describes activities of Baptist, Methodist, and Catholic missionaries in the Kansas City area. Includes details of the life of Watomika, a Delaware Indian who later became a Jesuit priest (then changing his name to Father James Brouchard).
Date: 2005
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Rules for Operating Indian Schools
Description: United States Office of Indian Affairs prepared a set of rules for all federally supported Indian schools. The list of the rules is transcribed in this chapter. The document was issued by W. A. Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, June 8, 1898.
Date: 2007
Object Type: Book Section

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