Part of sequence of mounted prints, some with captions

Groups include: Oon Ho and a group of leper men, women, and children; group outside ancestral temple, Kwangtung [Guangdong]; Taoist priests, Takhing; groups of lepers, Canton [Guangzhou]; group at Ko T'ong marker (near Canton); people "under the village banyan tree", Kwangtung. Other people include:...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 2
Date(s) of creation: c.1895 - c.1915
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 2
Summary: Groups include: Oon Ho and a group of leper men, women, and children; group outside ancestral temple, Kwangtung [Guangdong]; Taoist priests, Takhing; groups of lepers, Canton [Guangzhou]; group at Ko T'ong marker (near Canton); people "under the village banyan tree", Kwangtung. Other people include: "Two old country women"; Chinese evangelist of Leper Church, Canton. Other places or buildings featured include: harbour, rooms in the "City of Dead", Flowery Pagoda, Heavenly Peace Street, interior of the Temple of 500 Genii, Christian cemetery, Leper Mission school, Leper Mission Chapel of the American Presbyterian Mission, entrance to Yamen, the foreign concession, and Men's School, Training College of Presbyterian Mission, Canton; stone bridge and County Chapel of Presbyterian Mission, near Canton; rice fields and family tomb, Kwangtung; memorial gateway; Poklo [Boluo] near scene of 1st martyrdom in South China; Sha p'ing in the distance; Sun T'ong town including pawn shops. Also includes: "native" passenger boat, merchant steamers, timber rafts, and dredger on the Canton river; Canton-Hunan railway; scaffolding and matshade cover erected for building house, Canton.
Previous numbers: C20, C21, C22, C23, C24, C25, C26, C27, C28, C29, C30, C31, C32, C33
Extent: 45 sepia or black and white prints mounted on 14 cards
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
File number: 6
Format: Archive