A group portrait of the second year class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was composed of eight young Chinese boys. Among them were Ding, Mi Luong, Ko, Gong, and Jek. They are all dressed and groomed in proper Chinese fashion. The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou]. Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien [Fujian], China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United States and China.
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