The collection contains correspondence, diaries, photographs, artwork, audiovisual material, and ephemera documenting the Stuart and Hummel families' life and work in China as Methodist missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also contains materials relating to R. Stuart Hummel's work as a cryptographer for the Navy and his work for the U.S. government in the Office of Chinese Affairs and the Office of Civil Defense.
- Digital collection
- 3130 digital items
- Physical collection
- 150 linear feet (259 manuscript boxes, 20 flat boxes and one map folder)
- Finding aid
- Online Archive of California
