A large Buddhist statue inside the Kushan Monastery., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and This photo is from the papers of Emily Susan Hartwell, who was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary stationed in Foochow, Fukien from 1884.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 19 | Folder 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Shanghai Buddhist temple Several Chinese individuals are posed in front of the temple entrance.
"Salon Buemus d' Amedzeme près du Volta." A rural village of the Buems people is depicted in the Volta region. A woman and child are seen at the edge of the settlement. The mission station at Amedzofe can be seen in the distance.
112. Congo Francais - Mission Catholique de Brazzaville - Tetes de Buffles et Antilopes - Haut-Oubanghi. ("112. French Congo - Catholic Mission of Brazzaville - Heads of Buffaloes and Antelopes - Upper-Oubanghi.") The heads of two buffalo and one antelope rest on a stone wall., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank.
"Series X. - 5. Buildings and Porticos scattered into the enclosures at Seringam." A missionary and indigenous people are standing in front of the portico to an ornately decorated building. The building is part of the temple at Seringam. Another portico stands off to the side in this view. Additional information on the back notes that postcard profits benefit Industrial Schools in India.
"Building a boat." Three men are shown at work constructing a boat along a river. Two men are seen sawing the wood planks for the cabin enclosure that covers part of the flat bottom hull.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Building the stone, brick & mud wall around the back of our school and dispensary lot. Chinese men are manually building a stone wall in Haichow [now Haizhou], China., 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.
18. Couverture d'une Case à Sokodé A group of men are creating a thatched roof above a large building. The front of the postcard also includes information about the mission agency: "Mission Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon - Vicariat Apostolique du Togo.", Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains information regarding the printer: "Phototypie Mce Lescuyer, 16, Rue des Remparts -D'Ainay.-Lyon"