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"Conference of Women Workers, Amoy, July 1898." Conference of Chinese Christian women and women missionaries of the American Reformed, the London Missionary Society and the English Presbyterian Missions held at Xiamen in July 1898. This was the first such conference to be held and was attended by "over a hundred workers from the three missions of the Amoy field". (Edward Band, Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Misson 1847-1947, London, 1948. p.292). Album containing approximately 170 photographs and 55 coloured drawings belonging to Lilias Graham, of the Womens' Missionary Association, English Presbyterian Mission in China. Lilias Graham was an honorary missionary with the WMA from 1888 to 1906 when ill-health forced her to retire. She herself funded much of the WMA work in Chuan-Chow [Quanzhou], Fujian Province.
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