Three old Chinese women and a man, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, ca. 1920

Published/Created:

Fukien, Foochow, China, Asia
1910-1930

Physical Description:

11.3 x 6.7 cm

Notes:

Three old Chinese women and a man stand beside a dilapidated building. The woman holding the leaves is eighty-four years old and "laughed in glee at [the] prospect of having [her] picture snapped". Her son, standing behind her, owns a small fruit stand.
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-RG008-094-0006-0005

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:

6

Yale Collection:

Divinity Library

Digital Collection:

Divinity Library Photographs

OID:

11424564

PID:

digcoll:994000