Elson's Farewell Firecrackers

Title: Elson's Farewell Firecrackers
Caption: Firecrackers at Endicott home when leaving
Identifier: AEJ_139
Description: Smoke from the firecrackers obscures the foregrounf. In the background can be seen an unidentified group of people on the steps of the Elsons' verandah.
Creator: Alfred Johns
Date Created: 1910
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan; Chengtu, Szechwan (30.658799593305872, 104.06988893551647)
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Relation: Elson Verandah with Firecrackers
Source: Ken Johns
Provenance: Johns Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-11-15
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
abstract: The Johns arrived in Chengdu in early 1911, but Endicott left there in 1910. Elson left Chengdu in June 1911, so would have overlapped with the Johns..

Fireworks was a Chinese ritual greeting and farewell tribute to those they deemed important people, which frequently included missionaries. Given the size of their house it is not surprising Chinese would have that impression.

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