The Canadian Business Agency Staff

Item

Title
The Canadian Business Agency Staff
Caption
Original Agency
Identifier
JGFA_016
Description
Gordon and Clara Jones are seated for a formal portrait with a group of ten Chinese staff members, two of them women (front row right). Taken on the verandah of the Canadian Methodist Mission Business Agency in Chongqing.
Commentary
This photograph in Jean Good Zamin's Powerpoint is labeled with "Business Clerks" above the four Chinese men on the left, "Liu Binter Cook" over Clara's shoulder, "Table Boy" above the man to Liu's left, and "Cook's Mother Liu Be Be" below the woman seated to the right of Clara.
Date Created
c.1918
Location
Chongqing
Original Format
Photographic Print
Transciption
C.M.M. Business Agency
Language
English and Chinese
Source
Jean Good Zamin
Provenance
Barbara Jones Good Family Collection
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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