Farewell tea for John Rabe, Chairman of Safety Zone Committee, Nanjing, China,1938Forster, Ernest1937Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.Farewell tea given in honor of Mr. Rabe, Chairman of the Safety Zone Committee, by members of the staff, upon the occasion of his departure for German. February 21, 1938. In the pictures can be seen Mr. Magee, Mr. Sperling (German), Dr. Rosen (German Embassy staff); Mr. Rabe, Mr. Paul Scharffenberg (German Embassy staff who died in Nanking on June 19, 1938).still image