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135 x 99 mm. View looking across a sloping field towards bungalows. Photographer unknown.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

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Two Chinese men on a verandah.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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Showing a elderly Chinese man sitting in a chair.

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This school was founded by Miss Graham.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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261 x 211 mm. View looking along the waterfront at Chinkiang. Situated on the Yangtze 40 miles east of Nanjing, the city was first opened to foreign trade in 1859.

Scope and Contents 82 x 82 mm. colour glass slides. Reproductions of engravings of people and buildings, probably dating from the nineteenth century. The slides retain their original numbers. A slip of paper with the collection bears the name of Rev. G.F.C. Dobson. George Francis Clement Dobson was born in 1869, and after taking his degree at Cambridge University, became a teacher. From 1900 to 1909 he served as Assistant Master at the CMS Anglo-Chinese School in Shanghai (Acting Principal in 1907), when he...

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

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Loose prints relating to 1971, 1975 and 1979.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

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Showing a group of Chinese people seated on the steps described as 'group of patients waiting for the doctor', Edward Band, ‘Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947' (London, 1948), facing p.256).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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A view showing a crowded settlement of sampans on the Chu River.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format. Near Queen's Statue: Hong Kong.

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268 x 214 mm. View showing a public beheading about to take place. In the centre the executioner stands, his sword held above the neck of the kneeling man, while spectators form a semi-circle in the background. This print is reproduced in Worswick, p. 62 and there attributed to W. Saunders, active in Shanghai from the 1860s-80s.

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269 x 206 mm. View looking across an open patch of grass towards the funeral procession, consisting of a line of hundreds of men carrying banners and placards. Towards the rear can be seen a group in white, presumably carrying the coffin.

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And Chinese warship close to Shanghai.

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In the courtyard of the five-storeyed pagoda.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Imported from Galu.