China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 325 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., J. S. Whitewright was a British missionary serving under the Baptist Missionary Society in North China from 1881 to 1926. The museum he established in 1887 was stocked with natural history exhibits as well as models and pictures, many of which were designed to illustrate the positive influence of Christianity on civilization. The museum attracted large crowds from the countryside, especially on market days. Chinese evangelists and missionaries stationed at the museum used this opportunity to preach and converse with groups and individuals., and Museum established by J. S. Whitewright in 1887 in Tsing Chou Fu (also known as Ch'ing-Chou-Fu) [now Qingzhou Shi], China. Taxidermized animals, artifacts in display cases, and framed posters illustrate different aspects of the natural history and culture of the area.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 325 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Alfred George Jones and Minnie Agnes Crawford, daughter of J. P. Crawford of Tsing Chou Fu, Shantung, were married in the Union Bible Chapel in 1881 by the Reverend Miles Greenwood. Alfred Jones arrived in China from England in 1876 to become a missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Interior view of Union Bible Chapel in Chefoo [Yantai], China, facing front of church. Shows pews and altar area with extensive fruit and floral decorations, as for a harvest celebration. Two banners above the altar area read "Oh Bounteous is the Harvest" and "O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness."