Museum - Abilene Christian University Special Collections and Archives in Abilene, Texas

"Hold that pose!" E. W. McMillan holding a 8mm camera. McMillan was the pulpit minister of the Union Avenue Church of Christ in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1947, the elders of his congregation sent him on a fact finding mission to Japan in order to determine where they could help establish a Christian college there. After his return from Japan, McMillan toured the United Sates in order to develop financial and spiritual support for the school that would eventually become Ibaraki C...hristian College. After the school was established in 1948 and opened in 1949, McMillan served as its first president until 1952 when he returned to the United Sates. This photograph is part of an album given as a gift to E. W. McMillan upon his departure as president from Ibaraki Christian College. See this photograph and more at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/89/ See more

"Attendance at Church of Christ, Caracas, Venezuela, October 28, 1962." A group photograph of some members of Churches of Christ in Caracas, Venezuela. Frank Trayler, an American missionary from Churches of Christ to Venezuela is pictured on the far left in the back row. https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/1589/

Eva Johnson sits in a Willys Jeep Station Wagon outside of Atmakur, Andhra Pradesh, India in 1968. After retirement Eva and her husband, James, moved from Winnipeg, Canada to India to serve as missionaries.

Elizabeth Bernard served as a missionary in Hong Cong from 1933 until her death in 1971. Here she poses with some children in front of one of the Churches of Christ in Hong Kong. See this photograph and more at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/38/

"Don Wright and Vietnamese brethren have handed out almost 4,000 tracts in their street preaching. Funds are needed for more tracts." This photograph was takin in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, likely in the mid-1960s. To see this photograph and more, visit: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/1299/

The collections grows! Click through for a list of materials cataloged in September.

Anyone recognize this Church of Christ? If so comment below! We'll be back tomorrow to post the answer. --Clues: *photograph was taken in 1968 *the photographs were sent to Jimmie Lovell... --UPDATE--This photograph is of the Church of Christ, 318 Lobak Rad, Seremban, Malaysia, 1968. See link to photograph and more information in comments.

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Caption on this photograph reads, "The boxes are open and the Brittells start inspecting the contents." Orville and Augusta Brittell sort through boxes of supplies sent to them by American Churches of Christ for their work with the Namwianga Mission in Kalomo, Zambia. John Sherriff and W. N. Short, American missionaries from Churches of Christ, began the mission in 1922. Orville Brittell joined them in 1939 and married Augusta Scott, daughter of George and O. R. Scott who were also missionaries from Churches of Christ who worked at the mission station. See this photograph and more at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/1143/

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Back of photograph reads, "The card file and me." Bill Ramsay, an American missionary in South Korea, is examining a card file filled with records of Bible Correspondence Course Students from all over South Korea. During this period of time missionaries from Churches of Christ often used Bible correspondence courses as an evangelistic tool. See this photograph and more at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/1201/

Any sleuths out there? There are 11 unknown folks in this photograph from the 1965 Asian Mission Workshop in Ibaraki, Japan. Head over to https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/coc_missions_photos/69/ to see the photograph and comment back here if you're able to help us identify any of our mystery people.

Special Collections Librarian Carisse Berryhill has uploaded to our online repository several photographs of historic sites from Alexander Campbell's early life. Click through to read her blog about these locations and see the pics. The photographs are part of larger set of highly selective and curated images available for download to use in your own teaching and study about Alexander Campbell. Carisse's blog below is the third of three installments in the Traveling with Alexander Campbell to Glasgow series. https://blogs.acu.edu//traveling-with-alexander-campbell-/

In August our colleagues in Technical Services and Cataloging added 185 items to the Center for Restoration Studies, University Archives, and Rare Books collections. Among them are books, periodical issues (both bound volumes and many, many boxes of unbound issues), and a few A/V items in various formats, plus a few hymnals. Click through to see the list!