Men of the guard lined up with rifles, Haizhou, Jiangsu, China, 1917

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Title: Men of the guard lined up with rifles, Haizhou, Jiangsu, China, 1917
Published / Created: 1917
Publication Place: China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
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.
'Our Guard' 1917 Besides these we also had a soldier guard of 15 men who patroled at night with oversight by one of our foreign men. These are the school boys (orphans) with Messers. Rice & Grafton. The rifles, borrowed from Gen. White are of German make. Soldiers dressed in white are lined up holding rifles in Haichow [now Haizhou].
Extent: 6.7 x 8.9 cm.

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