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The label originally created to identify the piece of embroidery gifted to Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine by the churches of the Seoul Circuit in 1913, which is included as part of the Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine collection (MSS 280). The church depicted in the embroidery was incorrectly identified as Chungdong First Methodist Church's Bethel Chapel, the first Methodist Church founded in Korea by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The label originally created to identify the piece of embroidery gifted to Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine by the churches of the Seoul Circuit in 1913, which is included as part of the Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine collection (MSS 280). The church depicted in the embroidery was incorrectly identified as Chungdong First Methodist Church's Bethel Chapel, the first Methodist Church founded in Korea by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Passport application no. 44349 for Joseph L Gerdine and E D Gerdine, issued in 1911.

Passport application no. 44349 for Joseph L Gerdine and E D Gerdine, issued in 1911.

Passport application no. 63634 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine, issued in 1908.

Passport application no. 63634 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine, issued in 1908.

Passport application no. 265091 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine, issued in 1923.

Passport application no. 265091 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine, issued in 1923.

Passport application no. 44440 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine and Eleanor D, issued in 1921.

Passport application no. 44440 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine and Eleanor D, issued in 1921.

Passport application no. 16881 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine and Eleanor Daisy Dye Gerdine, issued in 1918.

Passport application no. 16881 for Joseph Lumpkin Gerdine and Eleanor Daisy Dye Gerdine, issued in 1918.

Photocopy of a number of images from Gerdine's photoalbum with notes labeling known figures.

Photocopy of a number of images from Gerdine's photoalbum with notes labeling known figures.

An eight panel folding screen supporting calligraphy of an interpretation of the Eight Beatitudes (Matthew 5) in Chinese. The artist, Rev. Eun-deok Choi, has signed the work with his sobriquet, 義山 (의산; Righteous Mountain). The artist, Rev. Choi, was an acquaintance of the former President of Methodist Theological University in Seoul, Bong-bae Park, and may have originally gifted the work to him. Park, in turn, was a friend and colleague of former Emory University President and US Ambassador to Korea, James T. Laney, and possibly gifted the work to him.

An eight panel folding screen supporting calligraphy of an interpretation of the Eight Beatitudes (Matthew 5) in Chinese. The artist, Rev. Eun-deok Choi, has signed the work with his sobriquet, 義山 (의산; Righteous Mountain). The artist, Rev. Choi, was an acquaintance of the former President of Methodist Theological University in Seoul, Bong-bae Park, and may have originally gifted the work to him. Park, in turn, was a friend and colleague of former Emory University President and US Ambassador to Korea, James T. Laney, and possibly gifted the work to him.

This calligraphy plays on the sounds of Chinese to evoke the name of God (Yahweh) and describe him (Jesus Christ) as the most "precious stone," the cornerstone.

This calligraphy plays on the sounds of Chinese to evoke the name of God (Yahweh) and describe him (Jesus Christ) as the most "precious stone," the cornerstone.