Items

• Portrait of Johns Family with Three Boys
  Formal studio portrait of Alfred, Myrtle, Martin, Harold and Paul Johns. Paul sits on Myrtle's lap. Alfred wears a white tie and high collar. Myrtle wears a printed or embroidered silk blouse with a dark woolen skirt. The boys are wearing white dresses or shorts with knee socks and Mary Jane shoes.
• Harold and Martin Johns on Porch
  Baby Harold Johns sits on a small wooden rocking chair. His brother Martin stands beside him. In the background can be seen an embroidered Chinese screen and two potted plants.
• Johns Family in Garden
  The Johns family posing in front of a stone wall in a garden. Alfred Johns stands behind Myrtle, who is seated on a wicker chair with baby Martin on her lap. Alfred wears a three piece suit with a watch chain. Myrtle wears an ankle-length dress with short sleeves over long sleeves.
• Johns Family on Porch
  The Johns family on the porch of a brick building, probably their home. Alfred Johns stands behind Myrtle who is seated on a wicker chair with baby Harold on her lap. Martin Johns is seated in his own little rocking chair. There are potted plants on either side of the family.
• The Canadian Business Agency Staff
  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.
• The Canadian School with People in Front
  A large four story building with large ornamental steps leading up to the front door. Numerous people mill about in the front yard.
• View from Canadian School Dormitory, Chongqing
  The scene depicts a pond, perhaps Duckling Pond, in a shallow valley surrounded by terraced fields. A group of buildings is at the left. Pathways crisscross the pond.
• Laura Riddell with Students on Lawn
  Laura Riddell seated on a lawn with students reading a book. The brick wall and stone steps of the Canadian School in West China, Chongqing branch, is in the background.
• Laura Riddell, Teacher at Canadian School in West China
  Laura Riddell seated in a wicker chair reading a book in a drawing room with a roll up desk in one corner with a Chinese vase and possibly a candlestick on top of it. Another desk has a model Chinese junk on it and two Chinese candlesticks. There is a Chinese carpet on the floor.
• Luchow Students Preparing to Take Group Photograph
  A group of six missionary women with young Chinese students preparing to take a group photograph. The missionary teachers are guiding a middle row of students into place while a man, possibly the photographer, positions the children in seated on the ground in the front row. Some of the girls in the middle row have braided hair to below their waists. The missionaries are wearing pith helmets.
• Luchow Female Students with Missionary Teachers
  A group portrait of missionary women school teachers with two rows of female students, one standing and another seated. Taken on a lawn in front of a brick wall. The missionaries all wear versions of pith helmets with shirtwaists and skirts. The children mostly wear scholars' gowns (AKA changshan and qipao), indicating their status as students. They all have their hair dressed in traditional female styles.
• Luchow Dispensary Gordon Jones's Building
  Medium sized brick building with a shorter second story on one half of it. There are two doors, one on each portion of the building.
• Junghsien Hospital Compound
  Taken from a grassy hill overlooking rooftops, a panoramic view of the hospital compound shows three or more substantial buildings within the compound and two long rectangular buildings built into the compound wall in the foreground. Rolling hills are in the background.
• Junghsien Hospital Women's Wing
  A double verandahed building similar in style to missionary homes. The building appears to be in the process of construction by the piles of bricks and unkempt appearance around its base. A person sits on the ground on the lower verandah. Another person appears to be sweeping behind a column nearby. Other buildings can be seen in the background.
• Placing a Roof Beam, Junghsien Hospital
  A large group of workmen carry poles up a wooden plank. Another group secures a large beam in place while building the roof of the hospital. Another roof beam appears to be already in place on the right side of the photo. A Chinese grave is seen on a hill in the far left background. The caption is written on the front along with the number 3.
• Leveling Hospital Compound, Junghsien
  A large group of workmen and women carry pairs of baskets and work with rake-like tools in a yard within a compound. A high brick wall and building wall are in the background. The caption is written on the front along with the number 2.
• Gordon Jones with Pandora
  Gordon Jones plays with baby Pandora on her way to the Bronx zoo in New York. Dr. Frank Dickinson had been instrumental in securing her, while Roy Spooner and family were responsible for transporting her from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
• Drawing of the Canadian Mission's Business Agency
  Ink drawing of the Canadian Business Agency seen from a street and over rooftops. The Agency is a large three storied building with verandahs on the first two floors.
• The Canadian Mission's Business Agency
  Looking across rooftops at the exterior of the Canadian Business Agency from a street with an advertisement for a Chinese doctor. There are four Chinese men on the street, one wearing a Western style suit, and three in workmen's clothes carrying various items. The Agency is a large three storied building with verandahs on the first two floors.
• Back Sitting Room of The Agency
  From left: Irene Harris, Clara Jones, Mr. Smalley and Gordon Jones, seated in the "back sitting room" of the Canadian Business Agency. The room has a brick fireplace and high ceilings. There is a painting of a Chinese junk on one wall, probably painted by Ann Morse, an American missionary in Chongqing. Through large pocket doors, one can see bright sunshine coming into the next room.
• City of Weichou Looking Down From a Hill
  The roofs of a cityscape are in the foreground. Behind it can be seen the confluence of the Min and Zagulao Rivers, with the bamboo suspension bridge seen over the Min. In the background are mountain ranges.
• Bamboo Waterwheel Used to Raise Water for Irrigation
  A Chinese man stands posing in front of a huge waterwheel used to move water into terraced fields. Another waterwheel can be seen to the left behind him. The entire Chengdu Plain was provided with water by the Dujiangyan waterworks, using such waterwheels, large and small, to push the water into the fields.
• The Ribbon Counter Cliff on the Min River
  Probably taken from a boat as Graham was passing by on his way from Yibin to Leshan, the photo depicts a cliff on the shoreline that features vertical stripes. The photo is in black and white, but Graham describes these stripes as "multi-colored." Two people on the shoreline provide a perspective of how massive this rock face is.
• Chinese Wooden Boats on the Min River
  A group of small wooden boats of the kind common on the Min River between Chengdu and Yibin. The boats are covered with woven bamboo mats through the middle. Most of them have masts for sailing when weather permits. They are sheltering at a sandy beach.
• Steamboat Assisting Refugees to Cross the Min River
  Taken from the shoreline, this image shows a steamboat crowded with people whom Graham explains are soldiers in a retreating army that has commandeered their steamer to cross the river, a process that took two days.