Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Congo Belge Belgische Kongo "Serie Reeks 7 No 8 Desaix, Bruxelles" "Ecole de garcons. Jongenschool." A group of young boys are seated inside a classroom. A man stands at the back of the schoolroom, near a number of pictures., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed in the margin of the correspondence section is "Dominicaansche Missie in Belgisch-Congo" "De leerlingen van het Klein Seminarie aan het spel.", and Three boys stand in the foreground of the photograph, facing away from the camera and watching others constructing the framework of a building. Other boys are visible in the midground, standing or walking about the building.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Four boys stand outdoors near frames and tables. They work at fashioning patterned mats. Behind them, a thatch-roofed building can be seen., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it. Printed at the bottom of the correspondence section is "Missionnaires du S. Coeur, Borgerhout-Anvers" "Mission de Coquilhatville (Congo belge)" "Les jeunes nattiers de Mondombe."
"Congo Belge Belgische Kongo. Serie Reeks 7 No. 1. Desaix, Bruxelles. Ecole professionelle pour garcons. Berbepsschool voor jongens." Several boys are shown working in a carpentry workshop. The back of the postcard is blank. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
"Taking boxes of gifts to a bride." A long row of men are toting baskets filled with gifts for a bride. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and The basket or bridal veil conceals her face until she is in her husbands house. A covered sedan sits outside a doorway. A young woman, presumably the bride, stands in front of the sedan door with what looks to be a basket over her head. To her right stands a man, and on the stairs to her left are two other men.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Bride's Chair. Should be bright red - color is rather muted here. When I was little, I sometimes heard the bride weeping on her way to the wedding. And why not? Often she had never even seen her husband-to-be; and her mother-in-law? Chinese men are carrying an ornately decorated bride's chair through a city street., and Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
A wide stone bridge is clogged with pedestrians. Portions of the bridge are covered by cloth canopies. Several large sailboats are in the background., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., 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 19 | Folder 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Bridge at Wanhsien [now Wanxian] Szechwan [now Sichuan] Chinese made Print from Negative by George Barbour Arched bridge with building on top. Women washing clothes along riverside.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., General Pei Bao San built this culvert bridge for use by his newly purchased fleet of Dodge. Bros. trucks and touring cars. My father prepared stencils for the anglicized words. Years later the masonry washing way. [caption written by Morgans' son Carrel] A stone bridge with four round culverts is labeled "Haichow Kiangsu" over one culvert and "March 1926 A.D." over another., and 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.
