Mounted set of mounted prints of Rev Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury in China

Groups include: missionary party halted by roadside, near Kunming [Yunnan]; party trekking on mountain trails including in snow; local preachers training class, crowd listening and missionary party leaving Chaotung; Miao boys, crowds outside church and at opening of school, Stonegateway; Nosu villag...

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Order number: MMS Box 1197b
Date(s) of creation: c 1920-c 1940
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMS Box 1197b
Summary: Groups include: missionary party halted by roadside, near Kunming [Yunnan]; party trekking on mountain trails including in snow; local preachers training class, crowd listening and missionary party leaving Chaotung; Miao boys, crowds outside church and at opening of school, Stonegateway; Nosu villagers outside their log hut; missionary's children playing with Nosu children. People include: Rev Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury being carried in chair on road and with Miao boys. Events include: Rev Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury leaving Stonegateway. Activities include: sports, Stonegateway. Places or buildings include: pagoda, canal, copper temple, pleasure pavilion, lake, Zion church, all Kunming [Yunnan]; village market; rice fields, plain, Methodist church snow scenes and street scene, all Hweitseh; suspension bridge over Yangtze river [Chang river]; pagoda and church Chaotung; Nosu church; primary school, Weining; railway to Yunnanfu [Yunnan]; market, Yunnan. Also includes: idols in temples. Prints taken by/received from: probably Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury.
Previous numbers: MMS/13/20/06/36
Extent: 55 silver gelatin prints mounted on 13 loose pages.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably held by Methodist Missionary Society.
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
File number: 36
Format: Archive