Grahams with Seven Foster Daughters

Item

Title
Grahams with Seven Foster Daughters
Caption
1947-Grahams-with-7-foster-daughters
Identifier
DCG_067
Description
Alicia and David Graham are seated on chairs on their lawn on the WCUU campus. There are seven Chinese women standing in a row behind them. Everyone wears coats, sweaters or scarves, so it must be a chilly day. There are trees in the background.
Commentary
Only one of these girls is mentioned in Graham's autobiography. "Sophia Zen (I gave her her name Sophia) had graduated from the Suifu Girls' Middle School with highest honors. She took the entrance examination for entrance at the university [WCUU]. She applied for medical course, but just missed it. She appealed to me for help. I was able to get her into the B.S. course for training head nurses. She later became one of our foster-daughters."
Date Created
1947
Location
Chengdu, Sichuan
Original Format
Photographic Print
Source
Chris Hoogendyk
Provenance
Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2025-05-31
Contributor
Cory Willmott
References
David Crockett Graham. 1924-1925 A trip to Tatsienlu, Journal of WCBRS, p. 112.