Placing a Roof Beam, Junghsien Hospital

Title: Placing a Roof Beam, Junghsien Hospital
Caption: Placing a Roof Beam, Junghsien Hospital
Identifier: JGFA_006
Alternative Identifier: 3
Description: A large group of workmen carry poles up a wooden plank. Another group secures a large beam in place while building the roof of the hospital. Another roof beam appears to be already in place on the right side of the photo. A Chinese grave is seen on a hill in the far left background. The caption is written on the front along with the number 3.
Commentary: Gordon Jones had a degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. Accordingly, the Canadian Methodist Mission assigned him to building hospitals and schools in four different stations between 1910-1913, when he was reassigned to The Canadian Business Agency in Chongqing.
Date Created: 1910-1913
Location: Rongxian, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1787834/xuyang.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Junghsien Hospital Women's Wing; Leveling Hospital Compound, Junghsien
Source: Jean Good Zamin
Provenance: Barbara Jones Good Family Collection
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-30
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Mish Kids of West China: Footprints on the Sands of Time (PowerPoint given by Jean Zamin at the Canadian School Reunion, September 2010)

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