Collection includes correspondence between Charlotte Geddie Harrington and her parents, John and Charlotte Geddie, her sisters, Lucrecia Nielson and Ula Geddie and her brother John Williams Geddie. Correspondence was written between 1853 and 1902. Collection also contains photographs of the Geddie family and missionary activities in the New Hebrides (now the nation of Vanuatu), as well as miscellaneous newspaper clippings on John Geddie and the Geddie family, 1867-1957.
Item consists of a collage of black-and-white photographs, likely assembled after 1870, of members of the Rev. John Geddie's family. Includes an image of Dayspring Cottage in the middle. No names are given for the family members.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, showing Mrs. McNair and four unidentified Indigenous people standing in front of the Mission House at Dillon's Bay, Erromango, New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863 or 1864, of several unidentified Indigenous people standing in front of the mission station in Pango village, Éfaté island, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a photograph of a sketch of the brigantine Dayspring, built by J.W. Carmichael in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1863. This is the ship that the Geddie family traveled on to the South Pacific.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, showing Dayspring Cottage (Mission Station) from an elevated position, Aneityum, New Hebrides (presently Vanuatu).
Item consists of a steroscope photograph of eight people from several families, lounging on the deck of the "Dayspring" on its voyage to the South Pacific from Sydney. Pictured are, Rev. J.G. Paton and his wife, Rev. J. Niven and his wife, Mrs. Ella and a boy, and Mrs. Fraser and a boy.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of Rev. Goodwill and a group of workers constructing the Mission House on Espiritu Santo island, New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
Item consists of a black and white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of Rev. J. Copeland, his wife, and two children, standing in front of their family and mission house in Futuna, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a facsimile black-and-white photograph, likely taken after 1866, of Rev. J. G. Paton, his family and fellow missionaries, and unidentified Indigenous people at the mission house on Aniwa, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken after 1866, of Rev. J. G. Paton, his family and fellow missionaries, and unidentified Indigenous people at the mission house on Aniwa, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph of Rev. John Inglis' house in Aneityum, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Many unidentified people are standing in front of the house.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph of Rev. John Inglis' house in Aneityum, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Many unidentified people are standing in front of the house.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of Rev. Morrison, his family, and several Indigenous people, standing in front of the Mission House on Éfaté, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph showing three unidentified Indigenous people from the New Hebrides standing on the deck of the Dayspring.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph showing three unidentified children standing in front of Dayspring Cottage, Aneityum, New Hebrides (presently Vanuatu). Dayspring Cottage was part of the Mission Station on Aneityum in the mid-1860s.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph showing three unidentified children standing in front of Dayspring Cottage, Aneityum, New Hebrides (presently Vanuatu). Dayspring Cottage was part of the Mission Station on Aneityum in the mid-1860s.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken after 1868, of five unidentified Indigenous people posed in front of Rev. Thomas Nielson's mission house on Tanna, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken after 1868, of four unidentified Indigenous people posed in front of Rev. Thomas Nielson's mission house on Tanna, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken after 1868, of five unidentified Indigenous people posed in front of Rev. Thomas Nielson's mission house on Tanna, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Item consists of a facsimile of a black-and-white photograph, likely taken between 1858 and 1862, of John Geddie (back row, second from left), John Inglis (back row, third from left) and several other South Pacific Presbyterian missionaries and their families, at Tanna, New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
