Image / Street scene in Quanzhou, China with female missionary in palanquin, ca. 1894

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Title: Street scene in Quanzhou, China with female missionary in palanquin, ca. 1894
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1888/1906
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
United Reformed Church
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: Lilias Graham in palanquin with fellow missionary, bearers and servants carrying hamper and umbrella in a street near the English Presbyterian Mission in Quanzhou. The journey from Xiamen to Quanzhou took two days. The first day would be by boat to An-hai followed by a second in a palanquin or litter.
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.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 13.5 x 20 cm.
Identifier: impa-m6483 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-03-12-01-01
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6483
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-03-12-01-01.jpg
Subject: Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Graham, Lilias died 1930
Transport
Group portraits
Time Period: 1888/1906
Place: China
Fujian Province
Source: SOAS/PCE/South Fujian/Amoy/Photographs/01/01 [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
Presbyterian Church of England's Foreign Missions Committee
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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