Grahams with Seven Foster Daughters

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
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Source: Chris Hoogendyk
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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.