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Title
The girls of Ms. Chittenden's School, Ing Tai, Fujian, China, ca. 1910
Creator
unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1920
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
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
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.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9.4 x 11.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13916 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG005-017-0009-0029
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13916
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG005-017-0009-0029.jpg
Subject
Schools
Indigenous populations
Women
Children
Slavery
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1920
Place
Asia
China
Fukien
Ing Tai
Source
YDS/RG005/017/0009/0029 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Smith Family Papers
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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