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This series contains photographic material (black and white, sepia, cyanotype, or coloured prints, postcards, cuttings, and negatives) connected with the work of the London Missionary Society in China, and later in Taiwan and South East Asia.
Material is divided into sub-sections (repeated for the second, and to a lesser extent the third deposit of photographs). The first contains material which has not been assigned to a particular sub-section either because it concerns China as a whole, it covers more than one sub-section, or there is insufficient information to assign it to a particular sub-section; the second contains commercially produced prints by the ATO Photographic Association acquired by Adam Black, who served as a missionary in China from 1924 to 1951 (LMS China Treasurer, Shanghai); subsequent sub-sections relate to South China (including Hong Kong, Kwantung, and Fujian), Central China (including Chungking, Hankow, and Shanghai), and North China (including Peking, Tientsin, Tsangchow, and Tsinan). The latest deposit includes material for Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan, reflecting areas of work for the Society from the 1950s. There are also photographs from the London Missionary Society Print Library relating to Hong Kong and Malaysia.
The items depict individuals, groups, buildings and local scenes, featuring missionaries, Chinese Christians, hospitals, schools, etc. Material covers everyday missionary work andsocial gatherings to prints reflecting key events in Chinese history; the Boxer Rebellion (and Siege of Peking), the 1911 Revolution, Japanese expansionism into China in the 1930s, etc.
Note re place and person names:
Where possible, each place name is identified by a contemporary standard form (generally taken from Norman Goodhall 's 'A History of the London Missionary Society, 1895-1945') and a current modern standard form (generally taken from the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names). The modern standard used for Amoy is Xiamen; for Canton, Guangzhou; Changchow (used instead of Chiang-chiu, Chiang chiu, or Chan Chu), Zhangzhou; Changtien (instead of Zhangdian), Zibo; Chefoo, Yantai (used instead of Yentai); Chekiang, Zhejiang; Chengchow (instead of Cheng-chou, Cheng chiu, or Cheung chow), Zhengzhou; Chengtu, Chengdu; Chinchow, Jinzhou; Chingtechen (instead of Fowliang or Fou-ling), Jingdezhen; Chinkiang (instead of Chunkiang), Zhenjiang; Chuanchow (instead of Chin-chew, Chuan-chow, Chinchew, Chin-chew-foo, or Tsingkiang), Quanzhou; Chungking (instead of Chung King), Chongqing; Fatshan, Foshan; Fengtu, Fengdu; Foochow (instead of Fu-chow, Fuchow, or Foo-chow), Fuzhou; Futoshan, Putuo Shan; Fukien, Fujian; Haiyantao (instead of Haiangtao), Haiyang dao; Hangchow, Hangzhou; Hankow, Hankou; Hinghwa (instead of Hsing-hua), Putian (instead of Putien); Hopeh, Hebei; Hupeh, Hubei; Hwangkang (instead of Huang-kang or Huangzhou), Huanggang; Hwangpei (instead of Huang-p'ei), Huangpi; Hweian, Hui'an; Jehol, Chengde; Kiangsi, Jiangxi; Kiukiang, Jiujiang; Kuling (instead of Kuliang), ?Guling; Kupeikou (instead of Kupehkow, Kupeikow or Ku-pei-k'ou), Gubeikou; Kwantung (instead of Kwang-tung), Guangdong; Laichow, Ye Xian (instead of Yehsien, Yeh-hsien, Yihsien, or Yehhsien); Macao, Macau; Malacca [Malaya], Melaka [Malaysia]; Min (river), Min Chiang; Mukden, Shenyang; Nanking, Nanjing; Nankow (instead of Nankou or Nan-k'ou), Nankouzhen; Ningpo, Ningbo; Panyang (Lake), Poyang Hu; Paotow (instead of Pao-t'ou), Baotou; Pakhoi, Beihai; Patung, Badong; Peitaiho, Beidaihe; Peking (instead of Peiping), Beijing; Poklo, Boluo; Poshan, Boshan; Shansi, Shanxi; Shantung, Shandong; Shaohing (instead of Shaohsing or Shao-sing), Shaoxing; Shihtao, Shidao; Sienning (instead of Hsienning, or Hsien-ning), Xianning; Siaokan (instead of Siao kan, ?Hiau kan, or Asiaothan), Xiaogan; Sinlitun (instead of Hsinlitun or Hsin-li-t'un), Xinlitun; Szechwan (instead of Sychuan), Sichuan; Tali, Dali; Tehchow (instead of Techow, Te-chou, or Techou), Dezhou; Tengchow (instead of Dengzhou), Penglai; Tientsin, Tianjin; Tingchow (Fukien, instead of Tingchowfu, Tingzhou, or Ting-chow), Changting; Tingchow (Hopeh, instead of Ting Chiu or Tinghsien), Dingxian; Tsangchow, Cangzhou; Tsinan, Jinan; Tsingtao, Qingdao; Tungchow (instead of T'ung chou, Tunghsien, Tung chou, T'ung-hsien, or Tungchou), Tongxian; Tungting (lake), Dongting Hu; Tzuchwan (instead of Tzechwan or Tzu-ch'uan), ?Zichuan; Wanhsien, Wan Xian (instead of Wanxian); Weihaiwei, Weihai; Yangchow, Yangzhou; Yangtze (instead of Yangtse), Chang; Yellow River, Huang; Yenshan (instead of Yen-san), Yanshan; Yochow, Yueyang; Yuanchow (instead of Ichun, I-Ch'uan), Yichun. Chaoyang has been used instead of Ch'ao-yang; Chowtsun instead of Choutsun or Chou-t'sun; Hanyang instead of Hangyang; Hukou instead of Hukau or Hukow; Kulangsu instead of Kolongsu or Kaulungsu; Liaosi instead of Liao-hsi or Liaohsi; Lu Shan instead of Lushan; Muping instead of Mouping, Paohing, or Pao-hsing; Pho-lam instead of Pholam; Siaochang instead of Siao-chang or Hsiao Chang; Taian instead of Tai'an or Taianfu; Taishan instead of Tai shan; Takhing instead of Tehking; Tsuen Wan instead of Tsuen Waan or Tsun Wan; Wuchang instead of Woochang or Wu chang; Wutai Shan instead of Wutaishan or the Wutai mountains.
For people, Cheng Ching-yi has been used instead of C Y Cheng, Cheng Chin Y, or Cheng Ching Yi; Feng Yuxiang instead of Feng Yu Hsiang; Li Yuanhong instead of Li Yuan-hung or Li-Huen-Hung; Yuan Shikai instead of Yuan Shih K'ai or Yuan Shih-k'ai
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