Workers Pounding a Tennis Court 1

Item

Title
Workers Pounding a Tennis Court 1 See all items with this value
Caption
1911 Pounding a tennis court, China See all items with this value
Identifier
AEJ_108
Alternative Identifier
150
Description
A group of workmen hold pounding implements while another pair of workers adjusts a level on the ground to ensure that the new tennis courts will be flat. Since the men wear queues, we can tell that this is before the 1911 Republican Revolution. Buildings of the WCUU can be seen in the background See all items with this value
Commentary
Although the photograph has written on it "workers building the hospital," the label on the scanned image, as well as in Alfred John's caption list, says this is building the tennis court. The latter attribution is more likely given the activities the men are performing and the fact that tennis was a daily activity among these missionaries. See all items with this value
Creator
Alfred Johns
Date Created
1911
Location
West China Union University, Chengdu, Sichuan See all items with this value
Geonames
https://www.geonames.org/12718447/ackerman-clock-tower-huaxi-campus.html
Original Format
Black and white photographic print
Is Version Of
Workers Pounding a Tennis Court 2
Source
Ken Johns
Provenance
Johns Family Archives See all items with this value
Access Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2024-08-25
Contributor
Nicholas Fowler; Ken Johns; Cory Willmott
Type
Still Image
Media
AEJ_108 1911 Pounding a tennis court, China.jpg

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1905-1913 Building the Canadian Methodist Mission Hospital, Chengdu Event
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