A morning with Marshall Li Chung Jen Base of Kwangsi [now Guangxi] Province (at military headquarters) One missionary woman and several Chinese individuals surround a man in military uniform.
A pond outside Nanking filled with the corpses of people who were killed by the Japanese troops. This is a scene typical of many of the ponds inside the city after the occupation of the city by the Japanese.
"Twinem Prayer Hall at the University of Nanking, decorated for the funeral of Mr. Paul Scharffenberg, chancellor of the German Embassy at Nanking, who died on June 19, 1938 in Nanking."
A loyal Chinese policeman, Rev. W.P. Mills (American Presbyterian Mission) and Rev. John Magee standing at the entrance to the Safety Zone Committee Headquarters.
A group of worshippers at St. Paul's Church, Nanking, on February 20, 1938, being the first time after the fall of the city that we were able to use our Church building with any degree of safety. A Christian Japanese soldier worshipped with us that d...
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 missi...
Ablutions form a large part in the Moslem's day, so we find connected with each mosque a well equipped, heated bath house. The kettles on the rack in the center are for the minor ablutions used before every time of prayer. Showers are to be had in t...
A 'Beehive' kumbei peculiar to the Wuchungpao Plain, Ningsia. Although the door of the kumbei may open in any direction, the sepulchre inside will always be placed North and South.
A typical flour-mill used and controlled by Moslems along the Tibetan border. The wheel on the left is kept in motion by the force of the water striking the blades as in a turbine. Above in the mill the upper stone of the mill does not revolve, as w...