Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., 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., and Old Tang, our favorite boatman, on whose small boat OTL [Oliver Tracy Logan] installed a Waterman outboard motor and went to meet the 2 older children on the last leg of their 1500 mile, two-week-long trip home from school in Chefoo, North China.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 81 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A Chinese patient at Xianfu Hospital stands in a courtyard by a sapling tree. A uniformed official stands in a doorway. He seems to be watching the patient. Written on the album sleeve of the photograph: "A leper!", Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The Rev. Dean Goddard was an ABFMS missionary in Ningpo, Che-chiang, China from 1870-1903.
A Gabonese man sits on a bench in front of his house. He wears a necklace and rests a large wooden pole on his shoulder. In the background a river is visible., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "GABON - Un chretien Galea" ("A Christian of Galea.") The back also contains information about the publisher: "Ste des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Bd. Arago, Paris."
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac Watts. Other entries include epitaphs and psalms. The volume also contains some of Hamby's own religious verses as well as verses by several of his Norfolk acquaintances. The work is prefaced by an introduction which declares that although a preface seems needless when the volume is meant for "one private person," the preface will be useful to those who will read the work after his decease. The preface provides an autobiography of Hamby, focusing on his development as a writer.
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms., Autograph on title page: M. Toms., Binding: contemporary full morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Title on spine: Manuscript Poetry., Marbled endpapers., and Pasted in: engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hamby, "de Wymondham in Com. Norfoliciae."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
A dancing girl. Her costume is pre-Revolutionary, but the table and all on it is obviously 'foreign.', 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.
Bound with his Christs last sermon. London, 1663]. Publisher's advertisement: p. [23]., Signatures: A8 (includes frontispiece) B4., and The frontispiece is a portrait of Petrus Ramus (Pierre de La Ramée).
Publisher:
Printed for Eliz. Andrews, at the White Lion near Pye corner,
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., GABON - UN AFFLUENT DE L'OGOOUE ("GABON - A TRIBUTARY OF THE OGOOUE.") A man fishes while standing on a rock in the middle of a tributary of the Ogooue River., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Boulev. Arago, Paris."
1. - DAHOMEY - Le Temple des Serpents a OUIDAH - Missions Africaines de Lyon. ("The Temple of the Snakes at OUIDAH.") A man stands alone in front of very long hut holding a large curved plate on top of his head. The structure is made almost entirely of sticks and branches and has at least two separate entrances. Postcard issued by the "Coll. Propagation de la Foi.", Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "L'Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi soutient les Missions Catholiques du monde entier - Envoyer votre offrande par Cheques Postaux, Paris 618.25, Lyon 72.71 - Propagation de la Foi, Paris-5, rue Cassette (VIe), Lyon-12, rue Sala." ("The Work of the Propagation of the Faith supports the Catholic Missions of the whole world - To send your offering by Postal cheques, Paris 618.25, Lyon 72.71 - Propagation of the Faith, Paris-5, rue Cassette (VIe), Lyon-12, rue Sala.")
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and This is a photograph taken of a man with a large growth on his back. He was most likely a patient at the hospital where Dr. Oliver Logan worked in Changteh [now Changde], China.
