Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., La maison des enfants, station de Mbamou. ("The house of the children, station of Mbamou.") Two thatched-roof buildings stand at the end of a dirt road. A large wooden cross stands nearby. Postcard issued by the "Missions des Peres du St-Esprit - Congo Francais.", and The back of the postcard is blank.
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:
"This entrance provides for arrival by any type of conveyance. A few foreign motor cars drive up. Just inside the gate is a parking rack for bicycles. Rickshas are commonest. Stretchers bring the sicker patients, and not infrequently patients are carried in on the backs of devoted friends." A view of the new hospital building. To the right the covered walkway connecting it with the older hospital is visible. Along the gate several rickshaws are visible. More rickshaws with drivers can be seen coming up to the hospital. A mother and child are walking in the center of the photo, and more people are gathered on the left., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Frame 15 - Entrance to the new hospital building. The characters for the gate posts - gold on a black background - were written by our dermatologist, one of our Cheeloo graduates and classicists, whose calligraphy is much admired. To the left of the picture one can see parts of the new OPD. To the right is an over-the-street bridge, which connects the second floors of the old and new hospitals. The wing which we see protruding houses out-patient services on the first floor; nursery administration on the second and private patients on the third floor.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., CAMEROUN - Village Bamoun. Several thatch-roofed huts constructed of sticks frame an open courtyard. Several Bamoun villagers stand or sit at the edge of the photograph., and The back of the card is closely covered with handwriting, and is stamped and postmarked. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "Ste. des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Bd Arago, Paris".
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., CAMEROUN - Village de chef pres de Nkongsamba. Four villagers stand near several large, conical huts roofed in thatch. High hills rise in the background., and The back of the card has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102 Bld. Arago (Paris) Braun & Cie, Imp.-Edit. Mulhouse-Dornach".
[Note: Building on right resembles building in record 8729], Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Unidentified -- walls of Peking? [now Beijing] Photo depicts very high walls. In front of the wall is a town or marketplace. Atop or behind the wall are tall buildings.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 20 | Folder 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A corner of the wall around the palaces. Moat with lotus outside., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Margaret Hart Barbour, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary in Shanghai from 1916 to 1923.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., The compound is situated on a hill and it is completely enclosed by a stone wall. A boat navigates the river in front of the compound. Conflicting dates are written on the face of this photograph. The year 1910 in written at the top while the year 1908 is written at the bottom., and This photo is from the papers of the Edward Huntington Smith family, missionaries serving the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou].
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 73 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Wards of Sleeper Davis Memorial Hospital. Brick buildings of Methodist hospital in Peking
