Mounted prints of Peking [Beijing] and neighbourhood scenery and architecture, Yenching University, "miscellaneous", Union Medical College, "Christian Life", and "ways of travelling".

Groups include: fire brigade; hunting party; factory workers; mourners at Empress' funeral; Church members and friends; group of students on bridge; students of Union Bible Training School; city pastor and family; newly baptized people; Christmas play cast; Siaochang group; training class group; ?st...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 13
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c.1940
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 13
Summary: Groups include: fire brigade; hunting party; factory workers; mourners at Empress' funeral; Church members and friends; group of students on bridge; students of Union Bible Training School; city pastor and family; newly baptized people; Christmas play cast; Siaochang group; training class group; ?student fellowship children. Other people include: butcher; seal cutter; magistrate helping to make road; falconers; barber; travelling blacksmith; water seller; magistrate at the door of his Yamen; student; beggars; sweet seller; priest with Eunuch's portrait; preacher and his bride; woman of Siaochang Bible Fellowship; William Rowlands; Miss Lovell; 2 boys on a donkey; Marjorie Clements. Other events featured include: opening of Union Medical College; Easter service. Activities featured include: erecting an arch; making coal balls; shoeing a mule; wood sawing; "feeding the hungry"; picking waste paper; bargaining in a grain market; blindfolded donkey grinding grain; transport across frozen moat; spinning thread from raw cotton; "on a camel trip". Other places or buildings featured include: summer palace (including lotus pond, marble boat and pillars, and bronze pavilion); throne room; Temple of Precious Stone; entrace to Forbidden City; East City LMS Church; Chinese City in Peking; courtyards; Moslem mosque; pagodas; cypress trees outside the Hall of Confucius; inside royal palace; Legation Street; gateway to Roberts Memorial Hospital, Tsangchow [Cangzhou]; Peking Observatory, 1900; Chun Men; bridges; Wu Men (Noon Gate); Po Wo Palace; Imperial Palace; back of coal mines; Chung Wo, Empress Dowager's and I Lun Palaces; Temple of the New Year; temple in grounds of Altar of Heaven; Empress Dowager's room; Hsi Hua Men; moon gate; temple in Winter Palace grounds; Marco Polo Bridge; the Ha-ta-men; Roman Catholic Cathedral; entrance to and outside main gate of palace; temple and gate in the western hills; entrance to Sleeping Buddha Temple; part of the City Wall; Jade Fountain pagoda; interior of a hall at the Tung Yuch Miao; wall in temple courtyard; Yenching University buildings and campus; "Rich man's house"; shopfront; street cafe; "on the way to a village"; Peking Fair; Medical College buildings; chapel of Union Bible Training School; Rickshaw yard. Also includes: decorative arch; white pines; bronze cow, dragon, and horse; roof figures; figures in imperial court and Temple of Eighteen Hills; lacquer chest; temple "idol"; lantern and paper cart; farm implements; fishing huts; camels; New Year lanterns; Yellow silk cart at Empress' funeral; spirit cart; model of horse and carriage for funeral. Some prints taken during [Arthur] Chirgwin's visit, 1938.
Previous numbers: a)i, a)ii, a)iii, a(iv), a(v), a(vi), a(vii), a(viii), a(ix), a(x), a(xi), a(xii), a(xiii), b)i, c)i, c)ii, c)iii, c(iv), c(v), c(vi), d)i, d(ii), e(i), e(ii), f)i
Extent: 170 black and white or sepia prints on 25 pieces of paper (1 print appears to be missing from sheet 9)
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission
File number: 87
Copies: Duplicates of 5 prints.
Format: Archive