Missionary

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Photo album compiled by a Catholic missionary in 1934-1935 operating in various village locations on the north-west coast of Bougainville Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea. Individual portraits include: Sister M. Camille, Father J. Conley, Father Godert, Holala (native), Father Jones, Kato (native), Father Lebel, Father Lebreton, S.M., Nurse McRay, Father P. Montauban, Father Muller, Father Chaize Pinace, Father Poncelet, S.M., Father Schlickers, Father G. Servant, Rev. Mother Marie Rose, Father Seiller, S.M, Bishop Thomas Wade, S.M.,* and Wong-You (native).

MOB 336MOB 336Views of various missions and villages including: Abacio, Bei, Buin District, Buka, Gagan River, Green Island, Ieta-Buka Passage, Katuku, Kieta, Kieta Harbor, Kieta - China Town, Koromira, Lemanmana, Mauguai, Nissan Munol, Patupatuai, Tarlena, Timbuts, and Turiboiru.

The album contains 95 silver-print photographs - 3.5 x 5 inches, with many legibly captioned.

Price: $700.00

Note from Wikipedia: * Thomas James Wade (August 4, 1893 – June 11, 1969) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, MOB 336Wade was ordained a priest on June 15, 1922, for the Society of Mary. On July 3, 1930, Wade was appointed bishop for the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and auxiliary bishop of Barbalissus. Wade was ordained bishop on October 14, 1930; he resigned on June 14, 1960. As the first native English-speaking Catholic bishop in the Pacific missions, Wade was able to secure strong support from Australia and the United States, and his mission was successful despite major disruption during the Japanese occupation.

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April 1959 issue (#69) Maddrid Misionero.

Price: $30.00

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Missionary booklet Hermanas Misioneras de Nuestra Senora de Africa.

Price: $90.00

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Missionary booklet Venid a mi Todos, by the Consagracion al Corazon de Jesus.

Price: $25.00

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Spanish missionary game Doctrina Cristiana 1er grau. Complete and in working order. C1920.

Price: $200.00

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2 lengthy letters relating to China-based medical missionary Dr. Claude E. Forkner, dated 1935. One is from his mother Lucy Forkner (1875-1954), a missionary teacher working in Peiping, and another from a fellow American missionary with the Chinese name Mei Lien. She calls herself “the prune companion”. Both letters come with their original envelopes. They are very detailed accounts of being in China and mentions about war and the Chinese people being humiliated. Also a photo of Lucy and a friend Molly. It is getting very difficult to find missionary letters from China. SOLD

Price: $200.00

Note: Marion Dubois Forkner was married to Dr. Claude E. Forkner. They lived in Beijing from 1932-1937. They had 4 children: Thomas, Claude, Helen and Lucy. In 1934 Claude was professor of medicine at Peking Union Medical Center. In 1944 he was director of the China Medical Board, in Beijing. After the war he was the personal physician to the Shah of Iran.

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