Photographs by Rev R Elliot Kendall

Groups include: choir entering Kunming church [Yunnan]; Miao girls in costume; Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman with grandsons; Miao women with parasols; Miao school children. People include: elderly Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman; woman walking through street with washing hanging out to dry; boy selling newspapers; two...

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Order number: MMS Box 1197b
Date(s) of creation: c 1939-c 1951
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.17.07.13.06.40
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS Box 1197b
callnumber MMS/17/07/13/06/40
callnumber_txt MMS/17/07/13/06/40
callnumber-sort MMS/17/07/13/06/40
prefix_number 40
scb_previous_numbers MMS/13/20/06/40
title Photographs by Rev R Elliot Kendall
scb_date_creation c 1939-c 1951
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 25 silver gealtin prints
format Archive
description Groups include: choir entering Kunming church [Yunnan]; Miao girls in costume; Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman with grandsons; Miao women with parasols; Miao school children. People include: elderly Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman; woman walking through street with washing hanging out to dry; boy selling newspapers; two young Christian boys; Chinese "coolie" [indentured labour] 'Weining'. Events include: wedding procession, Kunming [Yunnan]. Activities include: Miao preacher and missionary's wife [Ruth Kendall] vaccinating children against smallpox; working in paddy field; building motor road to Chaotung; school sports. Places or buildings include: memorial archway, Kunming [Yunnan]. Also includes: mountainside grave [of Sam Pollard]. Prints taken by/received from: Rev R Elliot Kendall - many of which are reproduced in his books "Eyes of the Earth" and "Beyond the Clouds".
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Methodist Missionary Society/Kendall copyright.
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
scb_file_number 40
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hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0007.0013.0006.0040