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• Chinese Flying Kites
  Panoramic view overlooking a harbor believed to be Yichang, Sichuan. In the foreground, a group of people are flying kites. An unidentified industrial structure can also be seen on the beach. In the background, one can see numerous junks and houseboats in the harbor, with mountain ranges forming the opposite river coast.
• Yangtze Junk in Full Sail
  A Chinese "junk" with sail raised against a background of one of the Yangtze River gorges.
• Language Teacher Aboard a Houseboat, 1910
  In situ portrait of Alice Estabrook's language teacher standing in front of the cabin on a Yangtze River houseboat above Yichang. He can be distinguished by his scholar's cap. The boat's mast is in the center of the image. Several boatmen can be seen sitting a top the cabin wearing white head scarves and patterned scarves over their legs. Two other boatmen are on deck behind the language teacher.
• New WMS Missionaries, Yichang, 1910
  Seven women pose on a ladder aboard a steamer. All of them except Alice are looking to their right, as if they had spotted land. Alice Estabrook's caption explains the time, place and people, serving as a corrective to the information provided for the same photograph in the Johns Family Collection.
• 1910-1911 Alice Estabrook’s First Yangtze River Journey
  Alice Lessing Estabrook set said for China under the Women’s Missionary Society (of Canada) banner, reaching China on November 29th, 1910. Travelling up the Yangtze River with other new women missionaries and one seasoned missionary, she reached Chengdu on March 8th, 1911. In total, Alice spent over three months on steamboats and houseboats in the interior of China on her way to her mission field in West China. Images in this Event document her journey, many of them with interesting captions by Alice herself.
• Wedding Procession - Dowry Pillows
  Two men carry a portion of the bride's dowry, a group of pillows. The hills surrounding Renshou can be seen in the background.
• Wedding Procession - Bridal Chair
  Three men are seen carrying a bridal chair with the bride hidden inside. The chair is adorned with silk panels and other indiscernible decorations. The hills surrounding Renshou can be seen in the background.
• Wedding Procession - Embroidery Dowry
  Two men carry a portion of the bride's dowry, an embroidered bed curtain with a wooden frame. The decorative side panels of the frame are hanging horizontally at the bottom of the load. The hills surrounding Renshou can be seen in the background.
• Corporal Donald Earl Willmott
  Don Willmott sits on a lawn in a casual pose wearing his army fatigues. The rank badge for corporals is sewn to both sleeves of his shirt, and there is a pistol holster strapped to his belt.
• Kay Willmott in WCUU Living Room
  Kay Willmott poses in a wicker chair in the living room of their house on the WCUU campus. A Chinese scroll with a tiger motif hangs on the wall beside her. The Chinese carpet at her feet is now in Cory Willmott's collection.
• Earl Willmott in WCUU Living Room
  Earl Willmott poses in a wicker chair in the living room of their house on the WCUU campus. A Chinese scroll hangs on the wall behind him.
• Earl and Kay Willmott in Front Yard
  Earl and Kay Willmott are standing in the front yard of their house on the WCUU campus. The season is fall. Kay wears her fur-lined silk changshan to keep warm and as a marker of her status as a scholar.
• Earl and Kay Willmott Having Tea in Front Yard
  Earl and Kay Willmott are seated at a table spread for afternoon tea in the front yard of their house on the WCUU campus. "Yowler" the cat is sitting on a chair opposite them. The houses on "Canadian Row" can be seen in the background. The season is fall. Kay wears her fur-lined silk changshan to keep warm and as a marker of her status as a scholar.
• Earl and Kay Willmott on Verandah
  Earl and Kay Willmott pose for a portrait on the verandah of their house on the WCUU campus, Chengdu. Rose bushes hang from a rope trellis above their heads.
• Toddlers Don Willmott and Norm Endicott
  Young Don (left) and Norm (right) play together on a porch surrounded by numerous and various toys. They each have child-sized chairs as well.
• Kay Willmott at Endicott's Front Porch
  Kay Willmott (right) holds infant Richard Curtis (b 1930-03-19) and an unidentified Chinese woman (left) holds an infant that is probably Shirley Jane Endicott (b 1930-04-19). The two are seated in wicker chairs in front of the steps leading to the Endicott's porch. A group of four people are standing on the porch.
• New Mothers at Duckling Pond
  Kay Willmott (left) holds infant Richard Curtis (b 1930-03-19) and Mary Austin Endicott (right) holds infant Shirley Jane (b 1930-04-19). The two mothers are stylishly dressed in silk print dresses and high heels.
• Willmott Wedding Portrait 3
  Formal portrait of Lesslie Earl Willmott and Mary Katharine Geyer facing each other on their wedding day. The groom wears a tuxedo with a white vest and bowtie. The bride wears a white dress with a three tiered skirt that was considered unconventionally short for the time period. She also sports bobbed hair.
• Willmott Wedding Portrait 2
  Formal portrait of Lesslie Earl Willmott and Mary Katharine Geyer on their wedding day. The groom wears a tuxedo with a white vest and bowtie. The bride wears a white dress with a three tiered skirt that was considered unconventionally short for the time period. She also sports bobbed hair.
• Willmott Wedding Portrait 1
  Formal portrait of Lesslie Earl Willmott and Mary Katharine Geyer on their wedding day. The groom wears a tuxedo with a white vest and bowtie. The bride wears a white dress with a three tiered skirt that was considered unconventionally short for the time period. She also sports bobbed hair.
• 1944 Dujiangyan Opening of the Waters Ceremony
  Don Willmott took this series of photographs during WWII while he was teaching English at the Ming Hsien School. Ming Hsien was a Christian high school sponsored by Oberlin College, Ohio, that had moved from Shansi to Jintang County northwest of Chengdu in 1940. This Opening of the Waters Ceremony took place in April of 1944.
• Li Bing at Er Wang Temple, 1906
  Full front view of the statue of Li Bing at Er Wang Temple, 1906. He is seated in the conventional pose for civic officials and has a full array of altar offerings before him, in Tang style vessels. He sits in a recess behind a lattice frame.
• Min Irrigation Ditch, WCUU
  This image shows a roadway with gatehouses to the left and an irrigation ditch to the right. Small footbridges cross the ditch at intervals.
• Lone Carrier on Anlan Bridge
  Looking west from the east shore of the Inner River, this photo of the Anlan Bridge shows a single carrier with a tall load walking in the middle of the path that is clearly wide enough for commercial traffic.
• Group Seated at Base of Anlan Bridge
  Four unidentified missionaries are seated on the rocks with a group of Chinese, some of whom appear to be students by their age and dress. One of the missionaries has a pair of binoculars in her lap (very likely Jane Balderston Dye). The group is seated at the base of the bridge on the west bank of the Outer River during low water season. One Chinese man is standing, perhaps a leader of the excursion. In the background can be seen hillsides stripped of lumber.