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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
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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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