Items

• 1916 WCUU Sports Day
  A series of photographs taken by Alfred Johns at the annual Athletic Meet at WCUU, 1916. Johns was himself a soccer coach at WCUU and WCUU Middle School, so he was intensely interested in the sports events on display in these images. The image for this Event Record is the WCUU logo.
• Chinese Athletes Performing Hoop Tricks
  Two male Chinese athletes jump through large hoops as part of a "novelty" competition at the annual WCUU Sports Day. They wear Western style trousers and shorts with jerseys. A referee's notepad is visible in the right foreground of the image.
• Pole Vaulting at WCUU
  A male Chinese athlete races towards a pole that is held horizontally at about chest height. It appears that he will jump over the pole. A missionary serving as referee in a pith helmet stands by with a notepad.
• Men's Footrace at WCUU's Sports Day
  Three Chinese athletes are running in the lanes marked out for the annual Sports Day at WCUU. Two of them are close upon each other, while the third straggles behind. Notably, they are wearing Western style trousers, which was an innovation for the Chinese man's wardrobe.
• A Potatoe Bag Race at WCUU
  This photograph shows a "novelty" event at the annual WCUU Sports Day. A competitor wearing a potatoe sack takes the inside lane while two other athletes are far behind. He appears to be holding something that might indicate it is a relay race. Spectators crowd behind a bamboo fence, while judges watch from inside the track.
• Chinese Athlete Throwing Shot Put
  A male Chinese athlete is the subject of this image, seen within the white circle drawn on the ground. Watching him are other athletes, missionary children wearing pith helmets, and two missionaries who appear to be either coaching or judging the event.
• Contestants Play Tug-of-War
  On the left side of the photo shows two teams engaged in a tug-of-war. The nearest team member has a large badge on his back with the number 88. Spectators and judges stand to the right and left of the teams. On the right side, two women wear large hats, the largest identified in the caption as Mrs. Homer Brown. Male spectators wear pith helmets, while the judges wear cheongsam's or scholar's gowns.
• Panorama of WCUU Sports Meet, 1916
  Wide angle view of the athletic field at WCUU on the occasion of the annual Sports Day. The photo shows a construction site in the foreground. Behind a brick wall can be seen the field with numerous people standing around, some with flags. A few buildings are in the background.
• 05 Lower Yangtze River Sailboat
  A Chinese boat with two sails raised out on the open water near the mouth of the Yangtze River.
• 07 Hankow Harbour with Workmen
  Wide view of the harbour at Hankow with many workmen in the foreground, a steamer at the dock on the far left, and a warehouse projecting into the water on the right.
• Group Portrait of Ernest and Hattie Morgan Wedding, 1907
  Formal group portrait of Ernest Wesley Morgan and Hattie Woodsworth wedding in Chengdu. The wedding guests include six other missionaries (3 men, 2 women and 1 girl), and 13 Chinese men in various styles of dress from military uniforms to scholars gowns and formal Mandarin regalia. One of the missionary men also wears a Chinese scholars gown.
• Houseboat on Yangtze New Dragon Rapids
  The scene depicts a houseboat on the Yangtze River taken from the trackers' path. The trackers' rope can be seen extending from the boat to the shore. There are three additional houseboats downstream waiting their turn to go up the narrow rapids. There is a small group of people in the lower right corner. In 1919, the Johns were returning to Chengdu from their furlough in Canada.
• 18 Gold-sifters on the Yangtze River
  Seven men stand on a rocky field working a device that is used to sift for gold. They are wearing cotton shirts and trousers with turbans and bare feet. This is probably at Fuling on the Yangtze River about 75 miles east of Chongqing.
• 20 Mrs. Cordelia Stewart's Grave Near Chongqing
  Photo depicts a grassy field or hill with two wooden grave markers in the foreground and a large stone grave mausoleum in the background. Bouquets of flowers are placed near the grave markers. The closest marker has a Chinese character on it. The middle one is the grave of Mrs. Stewart, who died on her first trip up the Yangtze River. This was January, 1910, the year before the Johns were making the trip from late 1910 to early 1911.
• 08 Postcard of Myrtle Johns in Hankow
  Myrtle Johns sits in a rickshaw on the bund in Hankow with foreign buildings in the background. The man who pulls the rickshaw stands in front holding the poles to pull it. Myrtle wears a floor length skirt with matching jacket, a fur stole, leather gloves and a huge hat. The driver wears a cotton jacket and trousers with sandals and a brimmed hat.
• 01 Postcard of the Empress of Japan, 1910
  Hand tinted photograph of the ocean liner, the Empress of Japan, with the mountains of Vancouver Harbour in the background. The Johns left from Victoria, BC, however.
• Mt. Omei: Wannian Temple, Buddha's Tooth
  Two men presenting "Buddha's Tooth". The men's head and shoulders are cut off in the framing of the photo. From the clothing, the man on the right is a priest (note extra long sleeves of gown) and the man on the right is a laborer (note short jacket and trousers). The relic is enclosed in a glass case and sits on carved wooden a chair.
• Mt. Omei: View of the Mountains
  Beautiful view of the Mt. Omei mountain ranges, with the roof of an unidentified temple in the foreground.
• Mt. Omei: Scenic View From a Temple
  Beautiful view of the Mt. Omei mountain ranges, with the roof of an unidentified temple in the foreground.
• Mt. Omei: View from the Summit of the Sacred Mountain
  View of the peak of Mt. Omei from the nearby mountains. The "Golden Summit" can be seen in the upper right of the photograph. There is wooden fence made along the side of the cliff.
• Mt. Omei: Johns and Other Missionaries
  Pictured are the Johns and some of the other missionaries that they went with on the Mt. Omei trek. Alfred and Myrtle Johns are seated in the first and second place in the front row left. The temple remains unidentified.
• Mt. Omei: Missionary Group Portrait
  Picture of all the missionaries who made the trip to Mt. Omei on the stairs of an unidentified temple. All of them have changed into their formal clothes after their invigorating trek. One of the monks can be seen in the background. Most likely they are staying at this temple overnight before continuing their trek the next morning. Myrtle Johns is the third from left in the second row. Alfred Johns is not in this photo.
• Mt Omei: Buddhist Priest & Teachers
  Portrait of five of the missionaries' language instructors who traveled with them from Chengdu to Mt. Omei to provide continual guidance in Chinese language instruction. All five of them wear scholars' gowns. The two men in the middle hold the hands of a young child, probably one of theirs son. On the left is a Buddhist priest from the temple where they are staying. He can be identified by the very long wide sleeves of his gown, which harken back to the scholars' styles of the Ming Dynasty.
• Mt. Omei: Missionary Language Teachers
  Portrait of five of the missionaries' language instructors who traveled with the missionaries from Chengdu to Mt. Omei to provide continual guidance in Chinese language instruction. All five of them wear scholars' gowns. The two men in the middle hold the hands of a young child, probably one of theirs son. On the left is a Buddhist priest from the temple where they are staying. He can be identified by the very long wide sleeves of his gown, which harken back to the scholars' styles of the Ming Dynasty.
• Mt. Omei: View Near Du O Si with Fred Johns
  Portrait of Fred Johns next to a a series of cascading waterfalls near Du O Si on the path to Mt. Omei. Here Johns wears a suit jacket and pith helmet. Presumably it has become colder with the rise in altitude and he has redonned his outerwear.