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Title
Child beggars, Shenyang, 1889
Date Created and/or Issued
1889-10
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
“Group of beggars, Oct. 1889”. Group portrait of five children, emaciated and wearing rags, sitting on the street. The flooding and famine of 1888 left a large number of children homeless and orphaned. The missions in Manchuria set up a number of facilities in an attempt to alleviate the problems. Mrs Ross and Mrs Webster set up orphanages in Shenyang [Moukden]. ❧ The United Presbyterian Mission in Manchuria had been established by John Ross (1842-1915) when he entered the region in 1872. Shenyang [Moukden] became an important station in the interior and Hospitals, Schools and Orphanages were built there. The United Presbyterian Mission unified with the Irish Presbyterian Mission in 1890 to form an indigenous Presbytery, named Kuan Tung, with Chinese as the official language. ❧ The image is from an album associated with Rev. James A Whylie (1863-1894) who was ordained to the Manchuria mission in 1887 and based in Liaoyang, 1888-1894.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 14.4 x 10 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75653593-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79411
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653593-1.jpg
Subject
Orphans
Beggars
Children (people by age group)
Poverty
Time Period
1889-10
Place
Asia
China
Liaoning
Shenyang
Source
Acc.7548/F/16 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653591 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs and Illustrations from the Manchuria mission of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, ca.1888
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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