The description of this slide reflects the way that Erdoes organized 35mm slides. Erdoes arranged his slides in labeled containers that were sub-divided into labeled sections. The title for this image has been transcribed from its sub-section label; images of other slides from the same sub-section share the container title. The date listed here reflects a span of known dates associated the sub-section. In some cases, titles have been expanded to note particular individuals who appear frequently and who were identified by Erdoes in captions. Individual slide captions have not been transcribed or captured during digitization.
"Serie IV - Egitto - Canale" On the back of the postcard is printed: "A beneficio dell' Associazione Nazionale per soccorrer I Missionari italiani (riconosciuta in Ente Morale - Segretariato Generale: Torino , Via Accademia delle Scienze)" Three wooden boats with masts are pulled up along the side of the canal. A wooden bridge crosses the canal in the background. There are two robed people on the embankment and some men on the boats.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Chinese Boats., Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan were American medical missionaries in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces of China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards from 1905 to 1946., and The photo is marked 1904 but the Morgans did not arrive in China until 1905.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Down the river from Y.M.C.A. Numerous boats are in the water beyond a stone bridge.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Chinese Village This colored postcard depicts people in several boats along a narrow canal with buildings on each side and an arched bridge in the background., and From the collection of the Hartwell family, two generations of American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., The back of the postcard contains information about the mission agency and printer: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques. 102. Bd Arago, Paris-XIVe- Cliche M. CL. Delahaye" and also contains the phrase: "Photo veritable"., and There are a number of canoes in the river approaching as well as docked on the shore as a large group of people wait sitting nearby on the ground.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Container / Volume:
Box 418 | Folder 5882
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Small boats passing narrow rapids with supplies for China Small wooden boats with sails set, being pushed through the water by their crews.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Container / Volume:
Box 414 | Folder 5872
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Frame 14 - Part of the Suburb Wall (?).. A waterway filled with various small boats. To the right is some form of building, and to the left are more buildings on the shore.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Five boats on grand canal taken from the sixth boat which are carrying 1500 bu of rice and $3000.00 to the faminites -- Travelling under sail only. Feb. 1912 -- D. S. D. Several boats sailing on the water.
