Miscellaneous photographs of people and places in China

Groups include: sunday school children; Miss Wang with refugees; Rev Bone with group in front of country chapel; group including Rev H B Sutton; missionaries and Chinese ministers; Dr Wolfe and Mrs Booth with children; audience inside Morrison Memorial; printers in Chinese print shop; Chinese minist...

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Order number: MMS Box 1197b
Date(s) of creation: c 1880-c 1950
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMS Box 1197b
Summary: Groups include: sunday school children; Miss Wang with refugees; Rev Bone with group in front of country chapel; group including Rev H B Sutton; missionaries and Chinese ministers; Dr Wolfe and Mrs Booth with children; audience inside Morrison Memorial; printers in Chinese print shop; Chinese ministers; musicians; audience; preaching to a group of Miao; students at Yenching University; mass wedding; babies in Chunking [Chongqing] nursery; athletes; photograph taken at the Margaret Williamson Hospital, Shanghai, of nurses freed from Japanese internment camps (with key on reverse). People include: minister in pulpit; "Rev H B Rattenbury writes up his diary with an audience"; Hilda Porter with Chinese mother and baby; Dr and Mrs William Anderson with baby Donald; missionary in hospital recovering from typhoid; hospital dispenser in old dispensary; blind musician; country magistrate; Dr. Stephens and patient, Africa; Chinese teacher, Chinese nurse; guest arriving at missionary's house; Chinese baby being baptised; portraits of Chinese boy, Chinese girl, Chinese Christians at pray. Events include: tea meeting. Activities include: missionary travelling down river on boat; Chinese calligraphy; 'chair coolies climbing hill' [term from original source, indentured/contract labourers]. Places or buildings include: Chapel Street; school building, ?Kyantse; small huts on stilts; En Kuang Middle School; science department, Christian University College; women's hospital [Hankow] also showing Dr Chiang's house. Also includes: funeral models; Chinese funeral procession. Prints taken by/received from: various including Hilda Porter; Mrs McQuillan; Rev J C Scott; Rev Frank Evison; Mr Poole; Peter Thompson; CCR; Rev John A T Fee; Dr. Oliver Lyth; William Anderson; C W Allen; Shanghai Branch of NAC.
Previous numbers: MMS/13/20/09/50
Extent: 57 silver gelatin and printing out paper prints.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by various including Methodist Missionary Society
File number: 50
Format: Archive