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"Miss Craig & Chuanchow Ko-niu [lady missionaries]." Photograph of women missionaries of the EPM at Quanzhou taken in 1924 during a visit by Miss Jane P.Craig, Secretary of the Women's Missionary Association from 1926 to 1933. The group are seated on the steps of the Women's Missionary House. At the back is Dr Louisa Thacker, next row from left: Miss MacPherson, Miss Ramsay, Miss Craig. Miss Roxburgh. In front (from left) are: Miss McKay, Miss Duncan and Dr Bryson. Set of 13 photographs belonging to Annie N. Duncan, a missionary of the English Presbyterian Mission's Women's Missionary Association. She was appointed to the Quanzhou mission station in 1893 where she assumed responsibility for the Girls' School and remained in that post until 1932. "Miss Duncan was sent out by the Scottish auxiliary (of the EPM), and being financed mainly by Sunday Schools throughout Scotland, she was known as 'the Children's Missionary'. (Edward Band, Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Misson 1847-1947, London, 1948. p.303). In 1902 she published The City of Springs or mission work in Chinchew etc.," describing early mission work in Quanzhou.
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