Men of the guard lined up with rifles, Haizhou, Jiangsu, China, 1917

Published/Created:

China, Asia
1917

Physical Description:

6.7 x 8.9 cm.

Notes:

'Our Guard' 1917 Besides these we also had a soldier guard of 15 men who patroled at night with oversight by one of our foreign men. These are the school boys (orphans) with Messers. Rice & Grafton. The rifles, borrowed from Gen. White are of German make. Soldiers dressed in white are lined up holding rifles in Haichow [now Haizhou].
Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan were American medical missionaries in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces of China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards from 1905 to 1946.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.

Topics:

Weapons

Accession Number:

IMP-YDS-RG126-036-0471-0009

Genre:

group portraits (AAT)
photographs (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Creator:

Morgan, Lorenzo Seymour, 1875-1955
Morgan, Ruth Bennett, 1877-1955

Source Title:

Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan Papers

Source Created:

1862-2001

Call Number:

RG 126

Box:

36

Folder:

471

Yale Collection:

Divinity Library

Digital Collection:

Divinity Library Photographs

OID:

11478928

PID:

digcoll:1016861