Includes photographs of St. John's College, Shanghai; Boone School, Wuchang; St. Peter's Hospital, Wuchang; St. Peter's Church, Hankou (Hankow). Buildings, faculty, students, clergy, etc. represented. Also of interest: Imperial Examination cells at Na...
A Moslem restaurant sign with the tea pot and the Arabic in the center. At the top are two Chinese characters 'ching' and 'chen,' clean and true. Just these two characters on many signs make a shop one where Moslems may eat. These correspond to the...
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 melody in roofs. Along the main street of T'ung Hsin Chen the minaret of the mosque can be seen. The ahung here had traveled to Mecca twice from South Ningsia and was fluent in Arabic though he could not read the Chinese calling card presented to h...
A Tunghsiang Hui or East Country Moslem. He and his kind live in finger-like valleys along the road between Kaolan and Linsia (Hochow) Kansu. These people, it is believed, are descendents of the Mongols and who still use their own language in the ba...
A typical Moslem inn along the highway between Kaolan and Sining. That it is Moslem one knows by the sign of the teapot hanging just over the head of Dr. S.M. Zwemer in the pith helmet. These inns throughout China assure a Moslem traveler of 'kosher...
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...
A portable goat skin raft which is used in the water down stream and carried on the back of a man upstream. Many such small rafts are fastened together to make one of the hundred skins or more to transport large cargo or a number of people to cities ...
Alfred Jones began his service with the Baptist Missionary Society in China in 1876. He died in July 1905 when the temple in which he was sleeping was destroyed in a storm.
"Tsing-chou-fu Church" This is an interior view of the church facing the pulpit from behind the wooden pews. There are stained glass windows on the wall behind the pulpit.
"MAJ, CNJ, HJ" Initials indicate the wife and children of missionary Alfred G. Jones. A group composed of missionary families is posed in front of a doorway. The women and children are in Western-style clothes while the men are in Chinese dress.
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...
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.