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Title
Staff of Women's Hospital, Quanzhou, China, s.d
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1906/1916
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
"Chuanchow Women's Hospital". Staff of the Women's Hospital, Quanzhou. This hospital was opened to out-patients in 1902 and to in-patients in 1903. Dr Edith Bryson (seated at left) worked at the hospital from 1905 to 1934 and Dr Louisa Thacker (seated at right) was there from 1906 to 1932.
Set of 13 photographs belonging to Annie N. Duncan, a missionary of the English Presbyterian Mission's Women's Missionary Association. She was appointed to the Quanzhou mission station in 1893 where she assumed responsibility for the Girls' School and remained in that post until 1932. "Miss Duncan was sent out by the Scottish auxiliary (of the EPM), and being financed mainly by Sunday Schools throughout Scotland, she was known as 'the Children's Missionary'. (Edward Band, Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Misson 1847-1947, London, 1948. p.303). In 1902 she published The City of Springs or mission work in Chinchew etc.," describing early mission work in Quanzhou.
Type
image
Format
Photographic print, 10.3 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m7235 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-3-12-05-03
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7235
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-3-12-05-03.jpg
Subject
Hospitals
Medical personnel
Womens health
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Duncan, Annie N. fl 1893-1932
Group portraits
Time Period
1906/1916
Place
China
Quanzhou
Source
SOAS/PCE/South Fujian/Amoy/Photographs/05/03 [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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