Photograph Album
Album containing photographs - almost all dating from the 1930s - taken mostly by Leslie Pacey with some by his future wife Mildred Button of their life and work in China (especially Yunnan). Nearly all images have captions although those at the front of the album are faded. Comprises: Pacey's jou...
| Order number: |
MMS/Special Series/Biographical/China/Box 1410 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1933-1959 |
| Level: |
Item |
| Format: | Archive |
| Main author: | Pacey; Albert Leslie (1910-1987); ordained missionary |
| Other authors: | Pacey; Mildred G (1907-1993); née Button; nurse; midwife; missionary wife |
| Order number: |
MMS/Special Series/Biographical/China/Box 1410 |
|---|---|
| Summary: |
Album containing photographs - almost all dating from the 1930s - taken mostly by Leslie Pacey with some by his future wife Mildred Button of their life and work in China (especially Yunnan). Nearly all images have captions although those at the front of the album are faded.
Comprises: Pacey's journey to China on board the SS Mantua with images of and from the ship and fellow travellers as well as ports visited (Gibraltar and Port Said, Egypt), 1933; College of Chinese Studies, Peiping [Beijing], Dec 1953; visit with colleagues to Western Hills, Pekin [Beijing], includes images of group, temples, methods of travel, Feb 1934; Wenchow [Wenzhou], travel and sightseeing with Rev & Mrs Stedeford and Roy Aylott, April 1934; travel to and arrival in Yunnan and meeting H B Rattenbury and Ted Moody, May 1934; boat journey near Yunnanfu [Kunming] with Rev & Mrs Evans; travel to Tungchuan [Jinzhong] with 'Rats' [H B Rattenbury]; Tungchuan [Jinzhong], city, temples mission property, school sports, Mildred Button and Pearl Evans (some Yunnanfu [Kunming]), Dec 1934; Journey to and colleagues at Chaotung [Zhaotong] including Francis & Emma Tucker, Fred & Marjorie Cottrell, Ken May, Ida [and Heber] Goldsworthy, Miss Bull, Jan 1936; wedding of Leslie Pacey and Mildred Button, Zion Methodist Church, Kunming, 1 August 1936 and honeymoon at Hsi Shan; travel in Yunnan and city walls and gates of Yunnanfu [Kunming], Dec 1936; Pacey visiting Miao [A-Hmao], April 1937; Pekin [Beijing] including summer palace; Wutingfu, Leslie Pacey and Alan Dale, Christmas 1933; events and trips with those meet on SS Mantua, 1934-1935; Tungchwan [Jinzhong], images of town including school as well as colleagues and associates (Mr Wang, Mrs Li, Peng Ta Ma, Mr Fu, Wu Te Tzu, Chian P'ei Tzu and Mr Yang) and Mildred Button and her horse Rusty,1934-1935; Miao [A-Hmao] Nosu [I-chia] and Kopu [Go-p'u] in Yunnan and Kweichow [Guizhou] provinces, c1934-1938; mission house at Tungchwan [Jinzhong], 1934-1935; photographs by Mildred Button of travel in Yunnan and Chaotung [Zhaotong] including Pu Toa Ching, 1933-1935 [some of the following images are likely to be hers as well]; rural Yunnan; image of evacuation to Hanoi [Vietnam] in May 1935]; funeral of Mrs Hsü at Kunming with mourners including Mr Chao, Rev & Mrs Evans, Rev Liao Fu-Ch'eng, Hsü Po Man and Dr Hsü; group images including Francis & Emma Tucker, Mr Ch'i, Miss Feng, Ida and Heber Goldsworthy, 1935; Wenchow [Wenzhou] maternity home and mission hospital, Mildred Button and Lilian Cooper with baby, 1935-1936; Kuan Yin Temple, May 1936; Paceys with William and Mr Ch'en; christening of the son of Rev & Mrs Mölgaurd; Chaotung [Zhaotong] new hospital and Connie Pullen, 1937; friends and colleagues including [Rev & Mrs May with children], Oliver Lyth, Roy Hooper, Dr Stedeford, Roland Stedeford, Mrs Stedeford, William Hooper, Pearl Evans (1930s, 1948 & 1959), group photograph possibly of student nurses (Hefeng, Huijun & Xinxian), nurses (including Juxiang) graduating at Wenchow [Wenzhou] 1937, Ch'en Shun J, Shouzhuang Chu & ?Jing Min 1935, girl guides group (including Rulan) 1937, Guiling 1937, group photograph outside entrance to Jiangcheng school. |
| Main author: | Pacey; Albert Leslie (1910-1987); ordained missionary |
| Other authors: | Pacey; Mildred G (1907-1993); née Button; nurse; midwife; missionary wife |
| Extent: |
1 volume |
| Acquisition: |
Accepted as a deposit on behalf of the Methodist Church from Mr Arnold Pacey, August 2006 |
| Arrangement: | The first 55 pages of the album were captioned in the 1930s by Leslie Pacey's sisters based on his notes and are in chronological order. For subsequent pages images added in an adhoc manner and were not captioned until the 1990s. There is the occasional absent photograph which would have been removed from the album prior to deposit at SOAS. |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright vested with Pacey family |
| User restrictions: | For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Scripts: |
Latin |
| Related material: | Ocassionally the Pacey's letters mention photographs they have sent home. Such remarks probably relate to a few of the images within this photograph album. Furthermore a couple of the images depicted in this album have annotations refering to Leslie Pacey's 'Yunan Service' . |
| Format: | Archive |