Joel F. Whitney Papers
Culture:
Language: English | Marshallese | Pohnpeian | Mortlockese | Kosraean
Date: 1856, 1870-1880, 1904
Contributor: Whitney, Joel
Subject: Micronesia | Missions
Type: Text | Still Image
Genre: Correspondence | Diaries | Photographs | Broadsides | Poems | Marriage registers | Receipts
Extent: 0.5 linear feet
Description: Papers of Joel F. Whitney, missionary on the island of Ebon, Marshall Islands, and Kusaie (Kosrae), Micronesia. Includes linguistic material, a small amount of mission press publications in Kosrean, Mortlockese, and Pohnpeian, one tintype likely showing Joel Whitney, realia, letters, and diaries that include some information in Marshallese, including records (with names) of marriages for 1876 and 1877 at the Ebon mission. Primarily materials relating to Ebon, including two diaries (1876-1877); early Micronesian printing, primarily of missionary texts such as the Lord's Prayer (first printing in Mortlock language; also some in Pohnpeian); manuscript articles about Micronesia; correspondence; billheads; reports; minutes of meetings, etc. Also included is a small wiskbroom or fan made of island bark and a scroll. Tintype photo ofolder man (possibly Whitney) with young native girl with hoop, circa 1880. The diaries have approx. 164pp, 130pp; approx. 149pp of correspondence; approx. 30 billheads or receipts (many are very long ordering 3 to 6 months of supplies); 13pp of minutes of missionary meetings; approx. 75pp of manuscript drafts of "articles" on history of Micronesian missions; approx. 38pp of mission press printed materials (including duplication).
Collection: Joel F. Whitney Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.98