The Day Missions Collection at Yale University focuses on institutional histories, missionary biography, the annual reports of missionary societies, periodicals, and works prepared by missionaries for the use of the peoples of mission fields, as well as related literature in areas such as ethnology, geography, comparative religions, and linguistics. It includes report, periodicals, and images.
Photo: "Three women missionaries and their Malagasy co-workers, Faravohitra, Antsirabe, Madagascar." 1919. International Mission Photography Archive, University of Southern California Digital Library, Los Angeles http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/41767.
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The below websites provide primary sources on Christian missions, primarily, and on Christian denominations, generally. Keyword search by Christian leader or missionary's name, denomination, and/or region. Try alternate spellings, if needed.
Here are the names of a few 19th-century missionaries that can be researched using the websites listed below: Mary Bird (1859-1914), Maria A. Gerber (1858-1917), Margaret Elmslie (1833-1872), Clementina Butler (d. 1913), Emma Clough (d. 1940), and Clara Swain (1834-1910).