Luchow Students Preparing to Take Group Photograph

Title: Luchow Students Preparing to Take Group Photograph
Caption: School children
Identifier: JGFA_011
Description: A group of six missionary women with young Chinese students preparing to take a group photograph. The missionary teachers are guiding a middle row of students into place while a man, possibly the photographer, positions the children in seated on the ground in the front row. Some of the girls in the middle row have braided hair to below their waists. The missionaries are wearing pith helmets.
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: 1911
Location: Luzhou, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1801640/luzhou.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Luchow Female Students with Missionary Teachers
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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