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Title
Bible women's house, Shantou, ca. 1895
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1895
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
"Bible Womens's house and small school, Swatow." Catherine Ricketts of the Women's Missionary Association, English Presbyterian Mission began recruiting bible women shortly after her arrival in Shantou in 1878. A house for the bible women was opened in 1888 with six women averaging in age from 47 to 63. "During their first vacation they visited nearly seventy villages and introduced the Gospel message into 120 families." Band, Working His Purpose Out, p. 210.
Type
image
Format
Mounted photographic print, 10.4 x 15 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m7667 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-4-12-03-02r
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7667
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-4-12-03-02r.jpg
Subject
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Exterior views
Time Period
circa 1895
Place
China
Shantou
Source
SOAS/PCE/Lingdong,Swatow/Photographs/03/02r [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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