A peep show. Daddy never would let us stop and look at them - for obvious reasons. Four men are sitting on benches looking through small holes in a wall at a peep show, Changteh [now Changde], China., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
A river gunboat, a common sight on China's waterways in Imperial days. (This was the gunboat that escorted the Logans on the houseboat in 1901). Note cannon on the bow, and captain's cabin on the stern. At night the crew was sheltered by a striped blue-and-white tent-like canopy held up by their shipped oars. During the night, one member of the crew manned the drum, which beat out the watches during the night - a comforting, if occasionally disturbing, sound to travelers anchored nearby for the night., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
A sea-going junk, with an eye painted on the bow. An explanation current in pidgin-English" was as follows: 'No gottee eye, how can see? No can see, how can savvy? No can savvy, how can go? No can go, how can get to place?'", Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
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., and We were able to make our trip to Peking so quickly and easily because of the courtesy of these Mr. & Mrs. [?] [?] le Ta Faille. The chief of the Haichow work. The Electric R.R. motor was fine. Behold our [?] R.R. ties & rails. It is still 55 miles away. Lo Ma Dzuang. May 31/'24. Missionaries, including Lorenzo Morgan, and two children are standing by a small railroad car surrounded by Chinese workers in Haichow [now Haizhou], China.
A street barber, an itinerant workman, a very common sight in our streets. Tracy noted the fact that the barber has apparently parked his customer's cap on top of his own hat! (Shanghai), Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
A summer sedan chair, the kind we used to go up the mountain to Mokanshan, the summer resort to which Uncle Fred and his family and the missionaries of his area used to go for summer vacation. Two men are carrying a person in a shaded sedan chair., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Baby abandoned on Shaohing Mission door step [now Shaoxing]. A baby is lying on some cloths, covered with a blanket, on a step near a brick wall., and From the collection of the Hartwell family, two generations of American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s.
“This is how I looked riding to the Flume in a chair – Do I look comfy? Thai Jong, 1919. From Abbie G. Sanderson, Swatow, China” Abbie G. Sanderson is sitting in a traditional Chinese chair being carried by two men near Swatow [now Shantou], China. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
“You’ve doubtless seen pictures of Chinese village streets but maybe none before with me in one! This one looks much cleaner in the picture. Yes that is a pig. The horrid sway back kind they have out here. I can’t imagine where the kiddies all were. There are usually a raft of them! I.K.F. From Abbie G. Sanderson Thai Jong (via Swatow) [Shantou] China 1919.” Abbie G. Sanderson stands in a doorway leading to a narrow stone Chinese street containing a pig, chicken, and dog. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.