Guide to the Harriet Stroh Papers

Descriptive Summary

Title

Harriet Stroh Papers

Inclusive Dates

1918-1970

Bulk Dates

1918-1939

Call Number

RG 187

Creator(s)

Stroh, Harriet, 1896-

Quantity

3.50 cubic feet (7 boxes)

Restrictions on Access

Collection open for research

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Biographical Note

Harriet Stroh was appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions to the China Mission in 1919. Her responsibilities included teaching at the Girls' School in Hwaiyuan (1920-1927, 1933-1937) and at the North China American School (1927-1928). She performed evangelistic work at Paotingfu (1928-1929), Hwaiyuan (1929-1931) and Showchow (1935-1936; and engaged in refugee work at Hwaiyuan during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1939). She resigned from mission work in 1942.

Collection Overview

Record Group 187 consists of Harriet Stroh's correspondence, reports, photographs and other miscellaneous items, 1919-1970, though the bulk of the collection dates from 1918-1939. The outgoing correspondence is primarily to members of her family and constitutes the bulk of her correspondence. Especially valuable is the correspondence (both incoming and outgoing) during the Sino-Japanese War and the subsequent Japanese occupation. The photographs, though mostly unidentified, reflect her missionary service in China primarily at Hwaiyuan and Showchow.

Organization and Arrangement

SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1918-1957 (Box 1; Boxes 4-6)
SERIES 2: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1924-1938 (Box 2; Box 7)
SERIES 3: MISCELLANY, 1919-1970 (Box 3; Box 7)

Administrative Information

Processing Information

Collection processed and finding air prepared: 1984
Frederick J. Heuser, Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Personal Name Subject

Stroh, Harriet, 1896-

Corporate Subject

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. North China Mission.

Girls' School (Huaiyuan Xian, China)

North China American School (Tong Xian, Beijing, China)

Topical Subject

Women missionaries--China.

Missions--China.

Presbyterian Church--Missions--China.

Schools--China.

Women--Education--China.

Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931-1933.

Geographic Subject

China--Missions.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Photographs. aat

Photograph albums. aat

Diaries. aat

Clippings (information artifacts) aat

Pamphlets. aat

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 187

		SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1918-1957

		Outgoing
1	2-7	1918-1925
1	8-11	1927-1938
1	12	undated
1	13	1955-1957

		Incoming
1	14	1938

		Miscellaneous
1	15-16	1937-1939

		SERIES 2: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1924-1938

2	1	1924
2	2	Korea, 1924
2	3	Korea/Paoting, 1927-1929
2	4	Tungchow/Peping, 1928-1929
2	5	1930
2	6	1920s-1930s
2	7	1938
2	8	undated
2	9	Paoting, undated
2	10	undated
2	11	Photograph Album, 1930s
2	12	Photograph Album, 1933-1938

		SERIES 3: MISCELLANY, 1919-1970

3	1	Journal excerpts, 1919-1921 (incomplete)
3	2	Diary, 1930
3	3	station/annual reports, 1921-1922
3	4	Personal reports, 1937-1939
3	5	Citations, 1946-1970
3	6	Clippings, undated
3	7	Pamphlets, undated

		Addendum To Record Group 187

		SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1918-1949

		Outgoing
4	1	1918
4	2	1919
4	3-4	1920
4	5	1921
4	6	1922
4	7	1925
4	8-9	1926

5	1-2	1927
5	3	1928
5	4	1929
5	5-6	1930

6	1	1931
6	2	1932
6	3	1933
6	4	1934
6	5	1935
6	6	1936
6	7	1937
6	8	1938
6	9	1939
6	10	1940
6	11	undated

		Incoming
7	1	1919-1930
7	2	1939-1949

		Miscellaneous
7	3	1920s-1940s

		SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1920s-1930s
7	4-5	1920s-1930s

		SERIES III: MISCELLANY, 1919-1970s

7	6	Personal reports, 1925-1925, 1930-1931
7	7	Diaries, 1919-1924, 1936-1938
7	8	Clippings, circa 1930s
7	9	Miscellany, undated

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