Phases of West China Missionary Life Digital Exhibit

Items

• David Crockett Graham Jr's Gravestone
  A stone engraved with "David Crockett Graham Jr, Feb. 14 - Dec. 17, 1914" sits on a bed of ferns with foliage in the background.
  TitleDavid Crockett Graham Jr's Gravestone

  Alternative Title1914-Gravestone-for-David-Crockett-Graham-Jr

  DescriptionA stone engraved with "David Crockett Graham Jr, Feb. 14 - Dec. 17, 1914" sits on a bed of ferns with foliage in the background.

  Abstract"The main events during our second year at Suifu were the arrival and the death of David Crockett Graham Jr. He was born February 14, 1914, and died December 17th, 1914. From birth he was not very strong. He apparently developed kidney trouble, but it was not discovered until the day before he died. He finally got pneumonia. Medical skill was not then what it is now or he would have been cured. We buried him in the foreign graveyard, where only missionaries and their children were interred, on Ch'i Shin Shan, near the foreign bungalows. From Granite Gorge at Mount Omei we brought a large red granite stone, which we used for a gravestone, having his name, date of birth, and date of his death carved on it. It will last at least one hundred years unless the stone is taken away and used for other purposes."

  Spatial CoverageQixingshan Forest Park, just outside of Yibin, Sichuan

  ProvenanceJean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
• David and Alicia Graham Studying Chinese Language
  David and Alicia are reading Chinese language textbooks, while their Chinese instructor also has a book open in front of him, but he looks at the camera. He is wearing a silk embroidered gown with a scholar's cap. The group are seated at a wooden table and there is a wooden screen and filing cabinet in the room behind them.
  TitleDavid and Alicia Graham Studying Chinese Language

  Alternative Title1912-studying-Chinese-in-Shaohsing

  DescriptionDavid and Alicia are reading Chinese language textbooks, while their Chinese instructor also has a book open in front of him, but he looks at the camera. He is wearing a silk embroidered gown with a scholar's cap. The group are seated at a wooden table and there is a wooden screen and filing cabinet in the room behind them.

  Spatial CoverageShaoxing, Zhejiang

  ProvenanceJean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
• Chinese Wooden Boats on the Min River
  A group of small wooden boats of the kind common on the Min River between Chengdu and Yibin. The boats are covered with woven bamboo mats through the middle. Most of them have masts for sailing when weather permits. They are sheltering at a sandy beach.
  TitleChinese Wooden Boats on the Min River

  Alternative TitleChinese wooden boats on the Min River, Szechwan.

  DescriptionA group of small wooden boats of the kind common on the Min River between Chengdu and Yibin. The boats are covered with woven bamboo mats through the middle. Most of them have masts for sailing when weather permits. They are sheltering at a sandy beach.

  ProvenanceJean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
• Graham House in Walla Walla, WA
  Small wood sideboard house where David Crockett Graham lived as a teenager. In his autobiography, he mentions that his father built this house himself, David (at 14 years old) and his brother. David's father was skilled in all kinds of manual labor including farmwork and carpentry.
  TitleGraham House in Walla Walla, WA

  Alternative Title1900-house-built-by-the-Grahams

  DescriptionSmall wood sideboard house where David Crockett Graham lived as a teenager. In his autobiography, he mentions that his father built this house himself, David (at 14 years old) and his brother. David's father was skilled in all kinds of manual labor including farmwork and carpentry.

  AbstractHouse in Walla Walla, Washington, USA, that William E. Graham built with his sons, David Crockett Graham and Joseph Clark Graham, ca 1900, date of photograph unknown, possibly taken on one of D.C.Graham’s return visits to Walla Walla. The house is no longer there, and this part of Walla Walla is now industrial. [Chris Hoogendyk, 2021]

  Spatial CoverageWalla Walla, WA

  ProvenanceJean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
• Formal Portrait of David Crockett Graham's Natal Family, 1889
  The Graham family sit for a formal portrait in a photography studio after the loss of David's mother, Elizabeth. Within 1888 and 1889, she and his brothers Louis, Mulford and baby Isaac would be dead (mainly by pneumonia) and the family savings totally depleted.
  TitleFormal Portrait of David Crockett Graham's Natal Family, 1889

  Alternative Title1890-DCGrahams-family-of-origin

  DescriptionThe Graham family sit for a formal portrait in a photography studio after the loss of David's mother, Elizabeth. Within 1888 and 1889, she and his brothers Louis, Mulford and baby Isaac would be dead (mainly by pneumonia) and the family savings totally depleted.

  AbstractD.C.Graham’s family of origin in Walla Walla, Washington, USA, ca 1890 or 1891. Graham family, left to right: William Edward (the Father), David Crockett, Elmina Elizabeth, Joseph Clark, John Mills (husband of Mary), Mary Louisa. At this point the family had lost their mother and five children in large part to Tuberculosis. Note the change in William Edward Graham’s hair color from 1882 when he was 41 years old to 1890 when he was 49 years old. D.C.Graham’s mother, Elizabeth Atchley Graham, died in 1888, just after her 44th birthday, when he was only 4 years old. His father, William Edward Graham, died in 1904, at age 63, just after D.C. Graham’s 20th birthday. [Chris Hoogendyk, 2021]

  Spatial CoverageWalla Walla, WA

  ProvenanceJean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
• Jean Graham and Anne Kennard with Baby Panda
  D.C. Graham's daughter, Jean, and Anne Kennard sitting on a lawn at the WCUU campus Pandora, the panda that became famous at the New York City 1939 Worlds Fair. Jean is holding the baby panda in her lap.
  TitleJean Graham and Anne Kennard with Baby Panda

  Alternative TitleJean Graham and Anne Kennard with Pandora

  DescriptionD.C. Graham's daughter, Jean, and Anne Kennard sitting on a lawn at the WCUU campus Pandora, the panda that became famous at the New York City 1939 Worlds Fair. Jean is holding the baby panda in her lap.

  ProvenanceDavid Crockett Graham and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.