Title |
Mission Council, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, January 1908 |
Description |
"Amoy Mission Council, January 1908. Front Row (from left) Rev. A.S.M. Anderson, Dr J.H. Montgomery, H.J.P. Anderson, H.F. Rankin, Middle row - Rev. J. Watson, Rev.C.Campbell Brown, Dr W. McGregor, Rev. G.M.Wales, Back Row - Rev. J. Beattie, Rev. H.W Oldham, Dr B. Lewis Paton.; 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. |
Subject |
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions; Duncan, Annie N. fl 1893-1932 |
Subject (aat) |
group portraits |
Subject (unesco) |
Administrative structure Men |
Geographic subject (city or populated place) |
Xiamen |
Geographic subject (country) |
China |
Coverage date |
1908 |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Publisher (of the digital version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date created |
1908 |
Type |
images |
Previous format (aacr2) |
Mounted photographic print, 9.5 x 12 cm. |
Format (aat) |
photographs |
Legacy record ID |
impa-m7233 |
Part of collection |
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 |
Part of subcollection |
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950 |
Part of repository |
School of Oriental and African Studies |
Part of series |
Presbyterian Church of England's Foreign Missions Committee |
File |
SOAS/PCE/South Fujian/Amoy/Photographs/05/01 |
Rights |
United Reformed Church |
Physical access |
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/ |
Repository name |
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library |
Repository address |
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom |
Repository email |
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk |
Filename |
IMP-SOA-PCE-3-12-05-01 |
Archival file |
impa_Volume212/IMP-SOA-PCE-3-12-05-01.tiff |