Part of sequence of mounted prints, some with captions

Groups include: buddhist monks. People include: a buddhist lama, Daiguling district; Lio (an old Christian); [Ernest] Box, [Ethel] Box [nee Ethel Shilston], [Charles] Somerville, [Bernard] Upward, [Cecil] Davenport, and Dr [Norah] Lenwood [later Norah Bryson]; a beggar "bound by Satan"; Cheng-Rung-M...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 4
Date(s) of creation: c.1895 - c.1915
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 4
Summary: Groups include: buddhist monks. People include: a buddhist lama, Daiguling district; Lio (an old Christian); [Ernest] Box, [Ethel] Box [nee Ethel Shilston], [Charles] Somerville, [Bernard] Upward, [Cecil] Davenport, and Dr [Norah] Lenwood [later Norah Bryson]; a beggar "bound by Satan"; Cheng-Rung-Mao; Loo Choo women; Deacon Wang of Tientsin [Tianjin]; Thih-tug, Hap-a', and Jo (biblewomen from Changchow [Zhangzhou] area); barber (at work). Activities featured include: exercises before school; binding, packing, and printing the Griffith John version; drinking by wayside; Sunday meeting in temporary tent; threshing wheat; stonecutters preparing stone for College buildings; going to market; building; sports; teaching. Other places or buildings featured include: gateway on River Han, old "Tung Chih Men" gateway, Scottish Bible Society's Works, Tai ping Road, and room and house where Dr [Griffith] John began LMS, all Hankow [Hankou]; the causeway near Moon Lake, Hanyang; hill side on the way to and grave near Chuk Un; Poklo [Boluo]; landing stage, Shanghai; Kuling [Guling]; site for Dr [Henry] Fowler's new hospital, Siaokan [Xiaogan]; Yangtze Gorges [Chang]; Lockhart Medical College and Ketler memorial, Peking [Beijing]; LMS Compound, Tsao-shih; new church at Chungking [Chongqing]. Also includes: water buffalo; chair being carried; "Griffith John" Jubilee press; coffin of a tartar general in the "City of the Dead"; "Tortures in Hell" from a temple at Siaokan.
Previous numbers: C142, C145, C146, C147, C148, C149, C150, C153, C155, C157, C158, C159
Extent: 55 sepia, black and white, or cyanotype prints mounted on 12 cards
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
File number: 13
Format: Archive