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Missionary Women and Girls Huddle Around Tongue Painter on Chengdu Streets Missionary women and girls huddle as they watch a Chinese artist draw with ink on paper with his tongue.
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People Walking Between Stone Walls in Flooded Streets of Chengdu Street completely flooded between brick walls and buildings. People walk ankle deep in the water in the roadway.
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Candy Maker on the Streets of Chengdu Artisan pours liquid sugar onto a skillet to make hard candy at a street stand. Children watch in background. The man is making a dragon form for the candy. A face is painted in chalk on the wall behind the candy maker.
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Chinese Medicine Dispensary Interior of shop showing jars and drawers full of Chinese medicine. Signs and posters show Chinese characters (although faded) and amulets appear to hang from the ceiling.
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Chinese Laborer Resting Heavy Load It is not entirely clear what this image depicts and there is no caption on the back. However, one can surmise that the subject is not happy. She or he has a heavy load on their back, which they are resting on the ground before moving on.
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Chinese People Crowd the Streets on Foot Small crowds of Chinese, mainly men, walk on sidewalk and street in front of storefronts with signs in Chinese.
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Chinese Street Scene with Shops Closed for the Night Chinese on sidewalk, mostly men, with shops shuttered for the evening.
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Cupping Method Used by Chinese Street Doctor Chinese doctor on left treats a patient in a chair who has bared their arm for the cupping treatment. Patients in background await their turn.
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Chinese Street Doctor Using Cupping Method Chinese doctor on left treats a patient in a chair who has bared their arm for the cupping treatment. Patients in background await their turn.
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A Tattered Paper with Five Photographs Attached This compilation of five photographs appear to be taken at one event on the lawn and verandah where a tea party took place. Paper is very fragile.
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Four Unidentified Missionaries Drink Tea on a Verandah Three men and a woman hold tea cups as they stand socializing on a verandah, apparently at an afternoon tea party.
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Five Unidentified Missionaries Socialize in a Garden Three men and two women stand outside in a garden socializing. Man on right appears to have a butterfly net.
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Six Chinese Scholars or Doctors Drinking Tea in a Garden Six Chinese wearing choangsam and Western style suits drink tea in a garden, apparently at an afternoon tea party.
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Dr. Ed Cunningham with a Chinese Colleague Ed Cunningham and a Chinese colleague in a Western style suit in a garden, apparently at an afternoon tea party.
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Dr. Ed Cunningham with Two Chinese Colleagues Ed Cunningham and two Chinese colleagues in Western style suits in a garden, apparently at an afternoon tea party.
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Gladys Cunningham in a Chair with Chinese Runner Informal portrait of Gladys Cunninghim in a relatively comfortable chair with Chinese runner.
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Group Portrait of Missionaries and Their Children with Two Chinese Men. Formal portrait of four missionary men, two missionary women and two missionary children with two young Chinese men in uniforms. Outdoors on a sidewalk with foliage in the background.
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Formal group portrait of a Christian Chinese wedding. Chinese wedding party appears to be a double wedding with two brides and grooms, but caption only mentions the one. Brides wear white foreign gowns and grooms wear Western style suits. Woman to left of brides appears to be pregnant.
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Operating Room Scene of the Krukenberg Method Scene in an operating room with several doctors and/or nurses performing an operation on a patient's arm. The patient's head is not visible.
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Woman with Ovarian Cyst Bloating her Belly and Nurse Taking within a hospital, a woman with a bloated belly sits with sheet covering legs while a nurse stands by her side.
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The Tzeluitsing General Hospital Building with Large Banner of Chinese Characters The center of the photo shows the front of the Men's Wing of the Tzeluitsing Hospital with four large Chinese characters running up from the first floor to the roof. On the right is the administration building.
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Map of North American Birth Places of West China Missionaries This map is based on genealogical data Cory Willmott and Amy Kaler compiled for 500 missionaries who served in West China. The data for the map represents a subset of this data of the 382 missionaries who were born in North America. It demonstrates how in both Canada and the US, the majority of missionaries were born in the Northeast or the Midwest, while only few are born in the South or West. The anomoly is that almost half (48%) of the West China missionaries were born in Ontario. This is out of proportion to their numbers in West China where Canadians represent only about a third of the missionaries, the others being born in the various countries of the United Kingdom, China and other foreign countries.
A likely explanation for the huge number of West China missionaries born in Ontario is that the Canadian Methodist Mission had only the West China mission, whereas other mission societies had missions in other parts of China, as well as in other parts of the world, which limited the number of missionaries they could send to West China. Another reason is that Ontario Protestant communities shared common origins and were extremely tight knit, providing the social environment in which ideas could easily be materialized into actions. Finally, funnel institutions such as Toronto's Victoria College and Ontario chapters of the Epsworth League and the Student Christian Movement efficiently recruited for the West China mission.
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Map of West China Mission Fields, 1902 This map shows the regions assigned to each of the missions in Sichuan by the West China Advisory Board in 1902.
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Main WCUU Gate with Foreign Couple in Front A foreign couple pose in front of the main West China Union University gate. Photo shows the entire three arches and portions of the brick wall of the compound.
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People Outside the WCUU Main Gate A foreign couple and a group of five Chinese stand outside the main gate of West China Union University.
