Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and This tomb is not in Egypt but in Yangchow, Kiangsu, the city which Marco Polo governed for Kublai Khan. Pu Ha Tin, one of the early missionaries of Islam to China is buried here. It is a place of sacred pilgrimage along the grand Canal.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Chang Chia Chuan, East Kansu, the stronghold of Islam in South Eastern Kansu and headquarters of one branch of the Djahariah Order. Fourteen mosques minister to the needs of the people. On market day, which occurs every second day, people from miles around make the streets almost impassible, yet women are seldom seen at these times.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Hsuan Hua Kang above Chang Chia Chuan on the hillside to the north. Here in the large mausoleum rests the head of Ma Hua-lung, one of the leaders of the rebellion of 1862-1876. His spiritual descendents, including Ma Yuan-chang, his son-in-law, are buried here close by.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Water Wheels on the upper Yellow River, above Kaolan. The man standing in the middle background by the upright post is six feet two inches. Water is carried to the top in long rectangular boxes fastened to the circumference of the wheel. Many of these wheels are owned by Moslem villages.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Bishop Scott. Mr. Greenwood Four missionaries in long clerical garb are posed in front of a building., and The group includes Bishop Charles Perry Scott and Miles Greenwood, Anglican missionaries who began work in Yantai in 1877.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Formal portrait of the G.B. Farthing family in Chinese dress, parents and three children., and This missionary family was killed in the Boxer rebellion of 1900 in Shansi.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Military mandarin, Tsou Ping. Man in Chinese garb sits in front of a display of weapons in an alcove. In the background are a bow, quiver of arrows, spear, military raiment, and a banner with Chinese calligraphy., and The English Baptist mission station at Tsou Ping was established in 1889.
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.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Mr. and Mrs. Nickalls, Chou Ping. English Baptist missionaries in Chinese garb are shown sitting in the living room of their home, with a piano in the background., and The English Baptist mission station at Tsou Ping (Chou Ping) [Zouping Xian] was established in 1889.
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."