1910-1911 Alice Estabrook’s First Yangtze River Journey
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- Title
- 1910-1911 Alice Estabrook’s First Yangtze River Journey See all items with this value
- Description
- Alice Lessing Estabrook set said for China under the Women’s Missionary Society (of Canada) banner, reaching China on November 29th, 1910. Travelling up the Yangtze River with other new women missionaries and one seasoned missionary, she reached Chengdu on March 8th, 1911. In total, Alice spent over three months on steamboats and houseboats in the interior of China on her way to her mission field in West China. Images in this Event document her journey, many of them with interesting captions by Alice herself. See all items with this value
- Location
- Yangtze River See all items with this value
- https://www.geonames.org/1815696/yangtze-river.html See all items with this value
- Event Date
- 1919-1911
- Provenance
- Curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe. See all items with this value
- Media
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Boat with Large Rectangular Sail |
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Chinese Flying Kites |
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Crew Members Eating Lunch on a Houseboat |
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Foreign Gunboats on the Lower Yangtze |
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Houseboat on Yangtze Above Chongqing |
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Language Teacher Aboard a Houseboat, 1910 |
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New WMS Missionaries, Yichang, 1910 |
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Scene at a Busy Yangtze River Port |
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Trackers at Work with WMS Party on Shore |
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Trackers Pulling Houseboat through Rocky Narrows |
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Wheelbarrow Chair Ready for Hire |
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WMS Missionaries Treat a Houseboat Crew Member |
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Yangtze Junk in Full Sail |
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