1846-09-25
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GUSN-250599
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Certificate to Rev. Samuel B. Swaim granting honorary membership in the American Baptist Missionary Society on September 25, 1846. The top half of the certificate is a black and white engraving of a missionary holding a Bible and evangelizing to indigenous people on a tropical island with idolized scenery including palms waterfalls. The caption states, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined," Isaiah.
missionaries
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societies
religious (people)
clergy
certificates
prints (visual works)
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1 certificate
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.02.293
18 x 13 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Jones, Alfred, 1819-1900 (Engraver)
certificates
prints (visual works)
engravings (prints)
Swaim, Samuel B. (Samuel Budd), 1809-1865
American Baptist Missionary Union
Missions
Religion
Indigenous
Protestantism
Item
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American Baptist Missionary Union membership certificate, 1851
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