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Title
English Presbyterian women missionaries, Quanzhou, China, 1924
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1924
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
"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.
Type
image
Format
Photographic print, 11 x 15.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m7234 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-3-12-05-02
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7234
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-3-12-05-02.jpg
Subject
Administrative structure
Women
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Duncan, Annie N. fl 1893-1932
Group portraits
Time Period
1924
Place
China
Quanzhou
Source
SOAS/PCE/South Fujian/Amoy/Photographs/05/02 [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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