WMS Missionaries Treat a Houseboat Crew Member

Title: WMS Missionaries Treat a Houseboat Crew Member
Caption: 1910 WMS Party members on a houseboat treating a Chinese man
Identifier: SEFA_130
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p39
Description: Two Women's Missionary Society (WMS, associated with the Canadian Methodist Mission) treat a crew member for lice on board their houseboat while traveling up the Yangtze River to West China for the first time. Another crew member can be seen on top of the cabin. In the foreground are ropes used by the trackers to pull the boat upstream through the rapids.
Commentary: Compared with other photos of this group, the woman on the left might be Ethel McPherson. The woman on the right cannot be identified.
Date Created: 1910-1911
Location: Yangtze River
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815696/yangtze-river.html
Event: 1910-1911 Alice Estabrook’s First Yangtze River Journey
Original Format: Photographic print
Relation: 03 Women's Missionary Society Party Aboard the Empress of Japan, 1910; New WMS Missionaries, Yichang, 1910
Is Part Of: Simpson-Estabrook Photo Album
Source: Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
Provenance: Curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by Kyle Jolliffe.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-04-02
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image

Media: SEFA_130_Simpson Album p39 1910 WMS Party members on a houseboat treating a Chinese man.jpg