Mounted prints once part of sequence (but missing numbers), some with captions

Groups include: group of Christian women and girls in the courtyard of the Mi-Chu-ron Chapel, Tientsin [Tianjin]; English school, Canton [Guangzhou]; outpatients in the waiting room, ?Hankow [Hankou]; audience for lecture by Dr [Griffith] John. Other people include: Mrs [?Margaret] Rees' [nee Margar...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 5
Date(s) of creation: c.1895 - c.1915
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 5
Summary: Groups include: group of Christian women and girls in the courtyard of the Mi-Chu-ron Chapel, Tientsin [Tianjin]; English school, Canton [Guangzhou]; outpatients in the waiting room, ?Hankow [Hankou]; audience for lecture by Dr [Griffith] John. Other people include: Mrs [?Margaret] Rees' [nee Margaret Harrison] serving girl; a colporteur; a Chinese Indigenous pastor; Chang Wan Cheng (around 1904); "friendly military mandarin" [Chinese military officer], Changchow [Zhangzhou]; [Mary] Lees [nee Mary Turner] and [Isabella] Bryson [nee Isabella Carruthers]; Hankow Hospital gatekeeper. Events featured include: crowd awaiting General Jen and the arrival of the magistrates tablet [?for the opening of LMS Roberts Memorial Hospital, Tsangchow (Cangzhou)]. Activities featured include: scholar repeating lesson at Siaokan [Xiaogan]; missionary and her teacher studying Chinese. Other places or buildings featured include: bridge and LMS compound at Tsao-shih, Hupeh [Hubei]; Tai ping Road, Hankow showing Dr [Thomas] Gillison's and John's houses and the LMS compound; Yangtze River [Chang]; inside of a methodist chapel, women's side, West China; Great light Library (Taai Kwong) and reading room, Canton. Also includes: Wunchang, Hankow, and Hanyang [Wuhan] taken from an old Chinese map on stone; Griffith John Jubilee souvenir.
Extent: 31 sepia or black and white prints mounted on 9 cards
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
File number: 16
Format: Archive