Grace Smith teaching her pupils, Ing Tai, Fujian, China, ca. 1910

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Title: Grace Smith teaching her pupils, Ing Tai, Fujian, China, ca. 1910
Published / Created: 1900-1920
Publication Place: Fukien, Ing Tai, China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Grace W. Thomas Smith is seated at a desk and is instucting a class of ten young Chinese girls. The girls are all wearing traditional Chinese dresses. It appears to be an open-air classroom. A western-style Chinese calendar can be seen on the wall. Written above this photograph in its album: "Mrs. Smith and her class of girls on the home piazza. Five have joined the church."
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.
Extent: 9.6 x 10.6 cm

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