American Presbyterian Shantung Mission photograph album, ca. 1923-1928

Summary

Creator:

Anonymous

Abstract:

This photograph album contains 57 photographs of the Jinan Station of the American Presbyterian Shantung Mission from ca. 1923 to 1928. Much of the images show the Murray High School for Girls and its students.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Erin Berger, September 2019

Background

Scope and Content:

This photograph album 57 photographs of the Jinan Station of the American Presbyterian Shantung Mission from ca. 1923 to 1928. Many of the images show the Murray High School for Girls and its students. Young girls are shown in the school yard being led through routines and stretches, in class portraits, on a riverboat, and likely participating in May Day celebrations dancing around a maypole. The girls are shown wearing two-piece qipao uniforms with a white blouse and black skirts or trousers. In several photographs students can be seen waving the first national flag of the Republic of China. Two images include a stamp on the back that reads, "Dr. Evalena S. C. Fleming, American Presbyterian Mission, Tsinanfu North China." Dr. Fleming was an amateur photographer and likely the owner of the album. The accordion style album also contains five loose photographs in a mylar sleeve.

The album is 18.25 x 12 cm with decorative cloth covers.

Biographical / Historical:

Dr. Evalena S. C. Fleming (1872-1934) was Executive Director of the Louisa Y. Boyd Hospital for Women with the Jinan Station of the American Presbyterian Shantung Mission beginning in 1923. Jinan Station was located in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China.

Acquisition Information:

1996. F-341.2 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Bibliography

American Presbyterian Mission. The Forty-Fifth Annual Report of Tsinan Station Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1919.

American Presbyterian Mission. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Shantung Mission Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1924.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Church schools--China--1920-1930.
Missionaries--American--China--1920-1930.
Physical education--China--1920-1930.
Qipao.
School children--China--1920-1930.
Students--China--1920-1930.
Teachers--China--1920-1930.
Uniforms--China--1920-1930.

Formats:

Photograph albums.
Photographs.

Names:

Fleming, Evalena S. C., 1872-1934.

Places:

Jinan (Shandong sheng, China)