A view of the roof of the women's hospital from the southern side of the missionary residence at Ing Hok [Ing Tai]. Written above this photograph in the album it was pasted: "Looking south from the front of mission residence. Roof of women's hospital second floor, of which now used for girls' boarding school. Over church tower, across the river, are the Buddhist pagoda and Confucian monastery. Between, church on one hill and pagoda on the other, the city of Ing Hok with 20,000 inhabitants.", 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.
"Les Capucins francais aux Indes (4e Série). La Mission du Sacré Coeur au Rajputana [Rajasthan]. 4. - Un jeune Radjah, encore élève au collège des princes, à Ajmer." Ajmer, a young Raja who is still a student at the college of princes, poses for the camera by sitting in a chair in front of some plants. He is dressed royally. Additional information on the back directs monetary offerings to Paris, France. There is a handwritten note on the back of this postcard.
“The ‘new’ hospital, finished in 1916. Its first patients were soldiers who had been wounded in a clash between a local war-lord up the river, and Peking government troops.” This is an exterior view of the hospital that was built in Changteh [now Changde], Hunan, China., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., 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.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., From the collection of Raymond Augur Dudley who served under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at the American Madura Mission South India, from 1919 to 1943 and was ABCFM Secretary to India from 1944-1957., and Jesus and the woman at the well - a scene from the drama Love Divine" portraying the life of Christ and enacted by local Christians at Pasumalai, So. India at the Easter season."
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Theatrical troupe who put on plays to please the fire god (over). These plays were in an open area where people came and went, standing to watch. A group of people on a stage of varying ages, all in costumes. Many of the costumes include long fake beards.