A class of over twenty Chinese school boys stand between two brick columns in front of their school house. They are all wearing traditional Chinese clothing. Some banners with Chinese writing adorn the entrance to the building., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and 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.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Container / Volume:
Box 419 | Folder 5897
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and On Saturday, October 14th the University declared a holiday and student body and faculty went out to the new site for a picnic. This year many students took great interest in wandering over the lovely site and all were especially interested in the work going on on the new buildings. The planting of a class tree by the class of Jan. 1923 and the laying of the cornerstone of the Sage Memorial of the Women's College were features of the day's program. This is the class of Jan. 1923 singing the class song around the tree just planted. Students in Chinese and Western dress are singing from song sheets, with a violinist accompanying the singing.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Chinese girls from a day school class pose on the footsteps of their school building., and This photo is from the papers of Emily Susan Hartwell, who was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary stationed in Foochow, Fukien from 1884.
"Catéchistes Missionnaires de Marie-Immaculée. - Nagpur. Une Classe de Fillettes à Sitabaldi." A school class of girls poses with a few nuns outside. The postcard also notes the publisher as, "Regnault, Photo - Orléans."
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Ruanda- La classe a Issavi. De klas te Issavi. Ruanda [Rwanda] Approximately fifty school children are sitting outside on the grass or in front of wooden tables writing in books. A missionary sister is teaching them, and a board with the alphabet is attached to a pillar of the brick building behind the group., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the publisher: "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles." The back also contains information about the Catholic mission agency: "Postulats des Soeurs Missionnaires de N.-D. d'Afrique. (Soeurs Blanches du Cardinal Lavigerie) Herent (Br.)- Thielt (Fl. Oc.). Postulaten der Zusters Missionarissen van O.L.V. van Afrika. (Witte Zusters van Kardinaal Lavigerie) Herent (Br.) - Thielt (W. Vl.).
A class portrait taken in front of the Morrison Cottage, Beacon Hill, Sharp Peak Island. According to a letter attached to the photograph, many of the boys are Manchu. Some of them are from the Christian Herald Fukien Orphanage. The teacher in the center is named Chen., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and This photo is from the papers of Emily Susan Hartwell, who was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary stationed in Foochow, Fukien, from 1884.
