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Title
Members of Synod, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, 1894
Creator
Possibly, Dr John Cross
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1894
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
Members of the first Presbyterian Synod, held in the Douglas Memorial Church, Amoy [Xiamen] in April, 1894. The synod comprised 16 Chinese ministers, 18 elders and missionaries of the English Presbyterian and American Reformed Missions.
Album containing approximately 170 photographs and 55 colored drawings belonging to Lilias Graham, of the Womens' Missionary Association, English Presbyterian Mission in China. Lilias Graham was an honorary missionary with the WMA from 1888 to 1906 when ill-health forced her to retire. She herself funded much of the WMA work in Chuan-Chow [Quanzhou], Fujian Province.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 21 x 28.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-m6505 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-03-12-01-06
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6505
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-03-12-01-06.jpg
Subject
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Graham, Lilias died 1930
Religious personnel
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1894
Place
China
Xiamen
Source
SOAS/PCE/South Fujian/Amoy/Photographs/01/06 [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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