Party for the wife of a Chinese official, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, ca. 1920

Published/Created:

Fukien, Foochow, China, Asia
1910-1930

Physical Description:

20.7 x 28.9 cm

Notes:

A group of women and children gather for a party thrown for the wife of the Chinese governor, Sun. The other Chinese ladies in the portrait are also wives of high officials. Emily S. Hartwell stands to the far right of the back row. Caroline Chittenden stands behind the governor's wife. Ms. Pepoon of Whitman College from Washington State is also present.
This photo is from the papers of Emily Susan Hartwell, an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary stationed in Foochow, Fukien from 1884.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.

Topics:

Indigenous populations

Accession Number:

IMP-YDS-RG008-094-0005-0006

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:

Hartwell, Charles
Hartwell, Emily Susan

Source Title:

Emily Susan and Charles Hartwell Papers

Source Created:

1910-1935

Box:

94

Folder:

5

Yale Collection:

Divinity Library

Digital Collection:

Divinity Library Photographs

OID:

11424553

PID:

digcoll:993983