Missionaries on Would Family's Front Lawn

Title: Missionaries on Would Family's Front Lawn
Caption: Canadian Methodist Missionaries at Luzhou Would House
Identifier: SEFA_076
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p18
Description: A group of eight or nine missionaries, two children and a baby stand on the front lawn of a missionary home in which the Rev. and Mrs. Would reside. The house is built in the two-story balcony style common among missionary homes in Sichuan.
Commentary: Rev. and Mrs. J.M. Would also arrived in Sichuan in 1913. As an evangelist, he was put in charge of the Luzhou Methodist Church and its outstations.
Location: Luzhou, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1801640/luzhou.html
Original Format: Photographic print
Is Part Of: Simpson-Estabrook Photo Album
Source: Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
Provenance: Curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-10-19
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Stephenson, Frederick C. Our West China Mission (The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Young People’s Forward Movement, 1920)

Media: SEFA_076_Simpson Album p18 Canadian Methodist Missionaries at Luzhou Would House.jpg