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Title
United Presbyterian Missionaries from the Manchuria field, China, ca.1888-1894
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1888/1894
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
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
“Front of Dr Westwater’s house, [back L to R] Rev. J A Wylie, Dr Watson, Dr Westwater, [front L to R] Mrs A Westwater, Mrs Watson, Mrs Dr. Westwater”. ❧ Group portrait including missionaries for the U.P. Mission in Manchuria. Mrs A Westwater was the widow of the Rev. Alexander Westwater who had died of a fever after administrating to the survivors of the flooding of the Llao River in 1886. His brother and sister in law are also present in the photograph which was probably taken outside their house in Haicheng. ❧ The Album relates to the 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, 14.5 x 10 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75653638-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79426
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653638-1.jpg
Subject
Wylie, James Allan, missionary, Manchuria, 1863-1894
Dwellings
Group portraits
Missionaries
Presbyterianism
Time Period
circa 1888/1894
Place
Asia
China
Haicheng
Liaoning
Source
Acc.7548/F/17 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653636 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Newspaper Cuttings Album, Photographs and cuttings relating to Rev. James A Wylie, Liaoyang, China, 1888-1894
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
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