A group photograph of the girls enrolled in Caroline Chittenden's school. They are all dressed in traditional Chinese clothing. Written under the photograph in its album: "Girls of Miss Chittenden's school - some are slave girls, most have husbands. The one with star brought from Foochow, and sold up in the mountains. Her mother-in-law died. She is housekeeper for husband and father-in-law, in a house with 15 other families in a mountain canon: is a Christian." The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou]. Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien [Fujian], China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United States and China.
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