A class picture of the students and teachers at Ma Chio Primary School. The students and their teachers are all Chinese. The boys are seated in the front row, while the girls stand behind them. The name "John" is written on the face of this photograph. There is Chinese writing along the right hand side of the photo., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and This photo is from the papers of the Edward Huntington Smith family. The Smiths were a family of missionaries serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou].
“Catéchistes Missionnaires de Marie-Immaculée. ̶ Bangalore (Hindoustan) ̶ En groupe d’Enfants de l’Ecole.” A group of young schoolgirls is shown leaving the mission school while a missionary sister teacher looks on. There is no handwriting on the back of the postcard.
"Missies en Werken der Franciscanessen Missionarissen van Maria. De kas te Stanleystad (Belgisch Congo.)” Students of varying ages are shown at their desks in a mission classroom. A missionary teacher sister conducts the lesson. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard:
“De Franciscanessen Missionarissen van Maria hebben tegenwordig in de missielanden 152 huizen met 129 scholen en 430 werken voor de kindsheid groepeerend 49,239 kinderen. Bovendien hebben ze voor de zieken 45 hospitalen met 81,476 daar verblijvende zieken in het jaar, 8 melaatschenhuitzen, met 1,627 melaatschen, 7 lazaretten met 2,178 besmettelijke zieken en 107 armenapotheken waar 2,529,121 verplegiingen werden gegeven gedurende het jaar 1928. Ze hebben ook 25 gasthuizen en toevluchtsoorden met 1,516 ouderlingen en vrouwen, 33 catechumenaten met 845 catechumenen, 83 bezoekmiddens met 85,830 zieken, 19,993 armen, 744 gevangenen jaarlijks bezocht. In den loop van het jaar 1928 hebben ze 32,834 doopsels toegediend ‘in articulo mortis’. Franciscanesssen Missionarissen van Maria Tervuerenlaan, 268, Woluwe-Brussel.” There is no handwriting on the back.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., From the collection of the Hartwell family, two generations of American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s., and Photo shows class in surveying taught by Mason Wells (extreme left) at Teng Chow Fu. Wells later married niece of Calvin Mateer. A brother of Wells, who also was a missionary in China, married Grace Corbett (daughter of Hunter Corbett) - Photo was taken before 1900. The men in the class are posed behind three surveying instruments.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Container / Volume:
Box 395 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and FCU buildings, campus + area scenes "Prof. C. R. Kellogg's Class in Bee Culture at Fukien" Male students in Western dress and female students in Chinese dress working with beehives and other equipment on a lawn. Professor Kellogg at right. A shed at left. Trees behind.
Back row: Frank Wode Foster, Alexander Brown Nevin, Pierce Barnes, William Stewart Halsted. Front row: John Lewis Scudder, Cartes Maxwell, Leoni Melick, George Willis Bradstreet, George Milton Stearne.