"24251 The River Front at our Chandraghoona Medical Mission, Medical Miss. Aux. B. M. S." [Baptist Missionary Society] Wharves are piled with boxes and barrels along a forested river front. The back of the postcard is blank. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
A wheat bin made of straw mattings Two missionaries and three Chinese men stand in front of a round structure. A tall step ladder is to the left., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., 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.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Drilling wheat Two adults and two children are in a field. A mule is strapped to an implement to prepare the ground for seeding wheat.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Container / Volume:
Box 395 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and FCU buildings, campus + area scenes "Class in wheat hybridization, Ag. College, Fukien Christian Univ. Class at work" Students' heads and shoulders are visible above the wheat. Buildings and hills in background.
"St. Joseph's Convent" "Bandra near Bombay" "11. Boarding-School (another view)", Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Several girls are shown standing outside of a number of wooden buildings, amid a stand of trees.
A loose collection of white-clad people are shown emerging from a tall-steepled stone church. Other houses line the street, as do stands of trees., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard has a few lines of handwriting on it. Printed in the margin of the correspondence section is "Ste des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Bd. Arago, Paris." "Madagascar - La sortie de l'Eglise a Ambositra."
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 21 - Gate of the University campus. The inscription over the outside of the gate - four gold characters on a black background - says The Great Learning of Chee and Loo' (I.e., Cheeloo university). The characters on the inside of the gate say, 'The Gate of the School's Friends' (i.e., Alumni Gate). Notice the local color at the road, the two policemen in uniform, the students in informal summer clothes, and the ricksha pullers, even more informal. This picture was taken before 'the incident'. Now two 'strangers' complete the picture, with rifles and sometimes bayonets." A distance shot of the alumni gate, where the Chinese architectural stylings on top are clearly visible. Some people in Western dress are milling about at the gate, and to the right of the photo is a rickshaw and driver.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and View of Peking looking toward W. Hills showing Ching shan (Prospect Hill), Pai t'a, +c. [now Beijing] A view of an area of Beijing taken from a tall building. Many of the buildings are not readily visible due to tree cover, but some pagodas are visible in the distance.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., GABON - LE FLEUVE OGOOUE A LAMBARENE ("GABON - THE OGOOUE RIVER AT LAMBARENE.") From the top of a hill, the photograph shows the wide expanse of the Ogooue River. On the right, various small buildings are visible on the shore. In the foreground stand a number of small palm trees., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Boulev. Arago, Paris."
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Background of photo shows widow's arches. These arches were constructed by wealthy families if a widow remained true to the spirit of her dead husband. A man pulling a ricksha is on the road in front of the widow's arch., and From the collection of the Hartwell family, two generations of American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s.
