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Missionary Photography in Korea:
Encountering the West through Christianity

Korea’s history with the West didn’t begin when the Korean War broke out. From the nineteenth century into the twentieth, Western Christian missionaries became a force in the country, establishing new social norms and religious identities and stoking early culture clashes. This exhibit—the largest ever of Korean missionary photographs in U.S.—will feature 50 images taken by missionaries in Korea between 1890 and 1950. The exhibition will be available to travel in 2009.

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1 Anti-TB campaign Christmas Seals (Seoul / 1930s, Norman Thorpe Collection)
2 Western Style Clothing Shop in Korea (Chemulp'o Port/ca. 1910, Mission Photograph Collection, General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, Madison, New Jersey)
3 A Christian Wedding (Seoul/ca. 1920, Mission Photograph Collection, General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, Madison, New Jersey)
4 Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (P'yŏngyang / 1924, Maryknoll Mission Archives)
5 Soongsil Christian Academy’s Soccer Team Champions (P’yŏngyang / 1925, The Moffett Korea Collection, Special Collections of the Princeton Theological Seminary)
6 Missionary Children: The Roberts Daughters (Sonch’ŏn, North Pyŏngan Province / ca. 1910, Donald Clark Collection)



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