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Title
Mission cook, Manchuria, 1889
Date Created and/or Issued
1889-05
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
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“Kó Shih-fu (Cook) May/89”. Portrait of a Chinese gentleman, the picture is faded and the background details are indistinct. It was possibly taken at Liaoyang if he was the cook for Mr Wylie’s mission. ❧ The image is from an album associated with Rev. James A Whylie (1863-1894) who was ordained to the Manchuria mission in 1887 and based in Liaoyang, 1888-1894. He did much itinerant work and built upon the work of Old Wang who had been the ‘native evangelist’ in Liaoyang until his death in 1885. When the first Sino Japanese War (1894-1895) broke out troops were being gathered to send to Korea and suspicion of foreigners was heightened. In Liaoyang, on the 10 August 1894, a group of Chinese soldiers wrecked the U.P. chapel and attacked Mr Whylie, who died of his wounds several days later. Missionaries and foreigners then sought refuge in the port of Newchwang where many remained until the war ended the following year.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 7 x 10 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75653482-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79374
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653482-1.jpg
Subject
Cooks
Portraits
Workers
Time Period
1889-05
Place
Asia
China
Manchuria
Source
Acc.7548/F/16 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653480 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs and Illustrations from the Manchuria mission of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, ca.1888
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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