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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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/15/10/05/087 Open

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

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.10.05.087
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/Box 13
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/10/05/087
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/10/05/087
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/10/05/087
prefix_number 087
scb_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
title Mounted prints of Peking [Beijing] and neighbourhood scenery and architecture, Yenching University, "miscellaneous", Union Medical College, "Christian Life", and "ways of travelling".
scb_date_creation c.1900 - c.1940
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 170 black and white or sepia prints on 25 pieces of paper (1 print appears to be missing from sheet 9)
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission
scb_file_number 87
scb_copies Duplicates of 5 prints.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0010.0005.00087

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