A Chinese cloth maker, Ing Tai, Fujian, China, ca. 1910

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Title: A Chinese cloth maker, Ing Tai, Fujian, China, ca. 1910
Published / Created: 1900-1920
Publication Place: Fukien, Ing Tai, China, Asia
Description: A Chinese woman works a mechanical wooden loom to make cloth. Written beneath this photograph in its album: "A native loom - making cloth for China. Wages, seven cents a day: output, a few feet.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou]. Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien [Fujian], China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United States and China.
Extent: 10.5 x 14.6 cm

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