"Taking boxes of gifts to a bride." A long row of men are toting baskets filled with gifts for a bride. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., From the collection of the Hartwell family, American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s., and Mr. Wong, his daughter-in-law and her son and bride. Shaohing Che. [now Shaoxing]
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., From Morgan Collection 1920s-30s. Kiangsu? Anwhei? Carrel Morgan July 1988, 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.
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 Son and daughter-in-law of Mr. Ku (one of the twins). July 1939 A bride and groom in Chinese dress are standing in front of a wooden door.
A bride and groom in Western dress are posed near an elaborately decorated structure on poles, in which the bride is to travel. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and The basket or bridal veil conceals her face until she is in her husbands house. A covered sedan sits outside a doorway. A young woman, presumably the bride, stands in front of the sedan door with what looks to be a basket over her head. To her right stands a man, and on the stairs to her left are two other men.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Bride's Chair. Should be bright red - color is rather muted here. When I was little, I sometimes heard the bride weeping on her way to the wedding. And why not? Often she had never even seen her husband-to-be; and her mother-in-law? Chinese men are carrying an ornately decorated bride's chair through a city street., 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.
Bird's eye view of the inner courts towards the south; elegantly dressed figures stroll around courtyards, with the burial grounds in the distance
Alternative Title:
Bridewell
Description:
Title engraved within banner at top of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3246., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Sold by John Bowles, prints and map seller over against Stocks Market