Image / Students and teacher, David Hill Blind School, Wuhan, China, ca. 1937

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Title: Students and teacher, David Hill Blind School, Wuhan, China, ca. 1937
Creator: Walker, Frank Deaville
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1937
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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Description: "The David Hill Blind School". Students standing in grounds of school with teacher playing keyboard instrument, possibly harmonium.
From an album, "Storm and Sunshine in Mid China. Our Work in the Hupeh District" [now Hubei] by Frank Deaville Walker. Walker was editor of the Methodist Missionary Society's journals, The Foreign Field, 1914-1932, and it's successor The Kingdom Overseas 1933-1945. He published 18 books and numerous pamphlets, including biographies of Thomas Birch Freeman and William Carey. He travelled to the mission fields extensively, visiting China in 1937.
Type: image
Format: gelatin silver prints, 11.8 x 16.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m542 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-13-20-002-020
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m542
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-13-20-002-020.jpg
Subject: Education
Disabilities
Education of the blind
Walker, Frank Deaville, 1878-1945
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1937
Place: Asia
China
Hupeh
Source: SOAS/MMS/CH/1197A/002/020 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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