Image / A Chinese bridal sedan, Ing Tai, Fujian, China, ca. 1910

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Title: A Chinese bridal sedan, 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: Five Chinese porters carry a bridal sedan. The sedan is ornate and richly decorated.
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, 10.0 x 14.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13913 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG005-017-0009-0026
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13913
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG005-017-0009-0026.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Transportation
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period: 1900/1920
Place: Asia
China
Fukien
Ing Tai
Source: YDS/RG005/017/0009/0026 [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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