Miscellaneous mounted prints [possibly taken during Arthur Chirgwin's tour, 1938]

Includes scenes of life, people, and places around China. Groups include: women of village on the way to Tingchow [Changtung]; ladies of the Amoy [Xiamen] congregation; staff of Hok Bin school, Kulangsu. Other people include: Chirgwin (eating with chopsticks); [Alexander] Baxter and "Alec"; Ivy Grea...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/15/10/01/038 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/File 38 (out-size)
Date(s) of creation: late 1938
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.10.01.038
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/File 38 (out-size)
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/10/01/038
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/10/01/038
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/10/01/038
prefix_number 038
title Miscellaneous mounted prints [possibly taken during Arthur Chirgwin's tour, 1938]
scb_date_creation late 1938
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 151 black and white prints on 32 sheets (some missing prints)
format Archive
description Includes scenes of life, people, and places around China. Groups include: women of village on the way to Tingchow [Changtung]; ladies of the Amoy [Xiamen] congregation; staff of Hok Bin school, Kulangsu. Other people include: Chirgwin (eating with chopsticks); [Alexander] Baxter and "Alec"; Ivy Greaves; workers on the land, including irrigators on the Grand Canal; [Kate] Hutley [nee Kate Keen, later Kate Walker] and Mrs Wang; Dr Bernard Read and [Stanley] Boxer; Mr and Mrs T K Chiu; Dr [Roland] Alderton and [Maud] Ward; famine victims; [Martha] Slater [nee Martha Shirley]; retired pastor, Amoy; [Ivy] Phyllis Read and Noel Slater; Enid Lin; Eric Liddell. Events featured include: funeral processions, Peking [Beijing] and Hong Kong; a religious festival on the way to Tingchow. Activities featured include: feasting; winnowing millet; grinding corn; ploughing; travel by cart, buggy, junk, sedan chair, rickshaw, and bus; "village welcome"; selling peanuts; crossing bridge with millet; crushing out wheat; open-air theatre; spinning; picnicking; leaving Church on Sunday morning, Amoy; eating noodles; praying in a Buddhist temple, Kulangsu; carrying household furniture; fishing; mending an iron pot; carrying water; having letters written; cutting hair. Other places or buildings featured include: Union Medical College and "dragon screen", Peking; grave mounds and memorial towers, and missionary home, Siaochang; plank bridges and countryside, Tsangchow [Cangzhou]; villages, rice-terraces, roads, clan houses, and houses on stilts, on the way to Tingchow; Lan Shien, near Tingchow; street and river scenes, Tingchow; "new territories", streets, harbour, Hong Kong; Kowloon; hills around Tingchow; children's section, Hong Kong Hospital; Chengchow [Zhengzhou] Harbour; a village temple; Mission house, matting sheds for refugees, and the beach, Kulangsu; views over Kulangsu Island; Amoy Park and Harbour; Yenching [University, Peking] grounds and pagoda; river, bridge (destroyed), Theological College, Dr [Wilfrid] Busby's house, and Chin Tek school, Changchow [Zhangzhou]; Tientsin [Tianjin] Anglo-Chinese College. Also includes: Monogolian camel train; mission flag on bicycle; head of a brigand suspended from a pole; house-boats; Japanese banner "proclaiming their peaceful intentions".
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Council for World Mission copyright
scb_file_number 38
scb_copies Duplicates of a couple of Siaochang prints
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0010.0001.00038

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