Mission Collection (#12)

Children entering King Edwards Mission, Whitechapel, 1890
Engraving showing a large group of poor children rushing into the King Edwards Mission, Whitechapel, to receive a free dinner, 1890

Santa Barbara, Alta California, 1846
Engraving of the settlement of Santa Barbara, Alta California, which had at the time only 200 houses, a mission and a fortress

Seamans Mission Chaplain on a merchant ship, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Chaplain sitting on a merchant ship, sharing his tobacco with the crew, 1906. Mission boats were at work in many of the worlds largest ports, at this time

Mission to Seamen Chaplain distributing Papers, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Chaplain distributing papers and magazines to a merchant ship crew, on their vessel, 1906

Mission to Seamen Service on board a Barge, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Service being held on the deck of a barge, 1906. Mission boats were at work in many of the worlds largest ports, at this time

Timoleon Sails to Sicily
As Timoleon, a Corinthian, sets sail for Sicily the skies clear and a bright light guides him all the way. Later he successfully frees Syracuse and Sicily from tyrants

A Bar at the Parthenon
A BAR AT THE PARTHENON The mission for the aspiring young American Archaeologist searching amid the Grecian ruins, is to discover the origin of bars!

Baptist Mission, Africa
Young African children learn the alphabet at a Baptist Missin, Africa

Elgin in Japan 1858 - 2
Lord Elgins diplomatic mission to Japan : interview between the British delegation and the Japanese ministers

Japan : Elgin Mission 3
Lord Elgins diplomatic mission to Japan : exchange of powers with the Japanese commissioners

Japan : Elgin Mission 2
Lord Elgins diplomatic mission to Japan : the British diplomats visit a tea garden in Yedo (Tokyo)

Japan : Elgin Mission 1
The house in Yedo (Tokyo) occupied by Lord Elgin during his diplomatic mission to Japan

Mission, Sri Lanka - 2
Christian mission at Navacouli - the church, the church house, and armed men

Soviet Woman Pilot
A female Soviet pilot is congratulated after a successful mission. She is a member of the Tamanski Guards Air Corps, an all-female group

German Airmen Prepare
German aircrew prepare for a mission (putting on parachutes). Aircraft is probably a Heinkel HE-111

Stone confirming early Christian missionaries in China
Stone found at Si-gan-fou (Chang-an, or Hsian-Fu) in 1625, which seemed to confirm that Christian missionaries had been in China in 635, during the Tang Dynasty, when O-lo-pen (Olopun, Alopen)

God Demonstrates Power
When he doubts his mission, God demonstrates his power by making a tree grow overnight to shade him, then the next day causes it to wither, exposing Jonah to the sun

Received by Shinte
His mission is ceremoniously received by Shinte, a tribal chief

London Homeless Mission
A mission to the homeless and hopeless, in the East End of London

French Mission, Poulbo
French mission at Poulbo, Nouvelle-Caledonie

Jesus Ascends
His mission accomplished, he returns to Heaven, leaving only his footprints

Mission Arrives in Chad
The arrival of a French mission at Lake Chad

German Loads up Grenades
A German fighter plane loads up with hand-grenades before a mission

German Naval Patrol
Before take-off, a German naval pilot contemplates the mission before him

Adjudant Prat, Explorer
ADJUDANT PRAT French explorer with the Marchand Mission, crossing Africa from the Congo to Djibouti

Capitaine Germain
CAPITAINE GERMAIN French explorer who crossed Africa from the Congo to Djibouti, with the Marchand Mission

Charles M E Mangin
Charles Marie Emmanuel MANGIN French explorer and military commander in Africa, member of Marchand Mission, later several expeditions as well as military campaigns

Afghanistan / 1878 / Jumrood
The camp of the British Mission to Kabul, at Jumrood, near the Khyber Pass. The Mission was turned back by the Afghan Emir Sher Ali

Khyber Pass / 1878
The fort of Ali Musjid where, in 1878 a British Mission to Kabul was turned back by order of the Emir of that city, Sher Ali

Santa Barbara Mission was founded in 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive water works survive today. Ruins of tanning vats and pottery kilns also survive

Protestant Missionary
The Rev W T Storrs, Mr Tunbridge, and mission staff, at the protestant mission in the Santal region

Wesleyan home Missions
METHODIST MISSION Mr George Coooks Wesleyan Home Missions Touring Gospel Car carries the Methodist message throughout Britain

Irish Stew for the Poor
An Irish-stew dinner to the poor at the Conder Street mission hall, Limehouse, east London

Canadian Mission Church
Native American converts make their way across the ice to reach the church at the Cumberland mission station in the Canadian/ American north- west

Mission to Britain
A Missionary preaching to the ancient Britons

Ruined Jesuit Mission
The ruins of a Jesuit mission in Paraguay

Vincent De Paul (Dev Cd)
saint VINCENT DE PAUL French divine, noted for his charitable works; he founded the Congregation of the Mission in 1625

Riot at Church Closure
Crowds riot outside the Mission House over the closure of St Georges in the East church

Civilising the World
The colonial powers have a sacred mission : to bring peace and civilisation to the ignorant natives

Mission in Oceania
French missionaries of the Picpus and Marist orders bring Gods word to the cannibals of Oceania

Norman Conquest 1066
Harold tells King Edward of his mission

Events / Syria / Diplomacy
The French mission to Syria, on behalf of the persecuted Maronite Christians, meet Fuad Pasha, Turkish foreign minister, appointed to deal with the matter, at Damascus

Moorgate Mission
Our London poor - a tea to seven hundred tramps and beggars in Moorgate Street Hall

SEAMENs MISSION 1930S
An East London Seamens mission, run by Baroness Leyonhillm of Chinatown

Campion & Parsons 1581
Edmund Campion (1540-1581) suspected of papist leanings, hanged at Tyburn, shown with fellow Jesuit Robert Parsons whose mission was to reclaim England for catholicism

Jesus in Wilderness
Jesus spends forty days in the wilderness, contemplating his mission

Mission, Nyasaland
At Mangoche, Nyasaland, Yao tribespersons attend a hearers instruction class in Christian teaching

French Mission / Ethiopia
The French mission, led by Marchand, arrives in Addis Ababa

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