Document Type
Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.25024/review.2023.26.1.013
Journal Title
The Review of Korean Studies
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
The Moffett Collection on Korean Church History and Asian Christianity (Moffett Korea Collection) is housed in the Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. Samuel Hugh Moffett (1916–2015, H. Moffett, Ma Samrak in Korean) and his wife Eileen Flower Moffett (1928– ) officially gifted the collection to the library on March 16, 1994. The collection consists of personal papers of the couple, manuscripts, publications, photographs, clippings, and objects they brought from Korea. The 230 boxes in the “Manuscript Collection” are classified into five series, each corresponding to the biography, writings, and collected materials about Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939, A. Moffett, Mapo Samyeol in Korean), one of the earliest American missionary and H. Moffett’s father, materials related to history of Christianity in Korea, H. Moffett’s papers, genealogical and personal papers from the Moffett family, and other non-print materials. The other 118 boxes, classified as the “Photograph Collection” contain fourteen series, albums of selected images of old Korea, and a box of glass lantern slides. The photograph collection includes personal photos taken by the Moffett family, postcards, photos of the early American missionaries in Korea, Korean people, as well as photos of Korean landscapes, scenery, buildings, and streets constructed in Seoul, Pyeongyang, and other areas of Korea from the late 19th to the late 20th century.
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Recommended Citation
Kim, Suzie. “Early American Missionaries in Korea: Photographs of Vanished Modern Architecture in the Moffett Korea Collection.” The Review of Korean Studies 26, no. 1 (2023): 305–19. https://doi.org/10.25024/REVIEW.2023.26.1.013.
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