cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12244
title: Church congregation, Guyana,ca. 1934.

description: "An East Indian congregation at Cornelia Ida."; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60012
title: Shinkyo Bridge, Nikko, Japan, 1936

description: Photograph of Shinkyo, meaning sacred, Bridge. "Red lacquer bridge which only the emperor may cross."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12242
title: Indian children, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "Three East Indian children." Three girls wearing western dress; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59828
title: Child and mother, Dandong, China, November 1939

description: Photograph of a mother and her child outside a group of homes. She is bent over coaxing him to come with her or stand up.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59808
title: The cook's wife and little Therese, Japan, ca. 1936

description: Photograph of a Japanese mother holding her daughter. The woman wears a kimono with a large flower pattern. "The cook's wife and little Therese."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m5987
title: Bishop Fourquet with Maryknoll priests at Sheklung, China, 1928

description: This is a photograph of "Bishop Fourquet of Canton at Sheklung." Also in the group are Maryknoll Frs. Dietz, Connors, McDermott and Kiernan.; Born in New York, Fr. Dietz came to Maryknoll in 1915 and was ordained to the priesthood on September 11, 1916. He took his Perpetual Oath to the Society in 1930. He was assigned to Kongmoon in 1920 and in 1930 he became the Society Superior of the mission. He was a delegate to the first General Chapter of the Society in 1929. In 1932 he was named to the Synodal Commission in Peking. In 1937 he became Procurator General in Rome. He was active in teaching until his death.  -- Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Connors was ordained to the priesthood in 1927 and was then assigned to Kongmoon, South China. After language study he was sent to assist in the Kochow Mission. While working there he visited the leprosarium at Sheklung. He was immediately attracted to the work which he was later to devote his life. He taught English at the Kochow Sacred Heart School and then assisted at Yeungkong. In 1933 he was assigned to the apostolate for lepers, a large colony of whom led a precarious existence in a cemetery outside Sunwui. He spent eleven years in China, five of them with victims of Hansen's disease. -- Rev. McDermott was born in Worcester, MA.  He entered Maryknoll in 1920 and was ordained in 1927.  He was assigned to Kongmoon, South China that year, where he remained until 1937, whereupon he returned to the U.S. -- Born in New York, Fr. Kiernan came to Maryknoll in 1921 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1924. In 1927 he was assigned to Maryknoll's new mission in Wuchow, South China. He served as rector of Pingnam mission for two years. While in Wuchow mission he built a church that won international attention for its fine architectural style and was written up in the pages of Liturgical Arts Magazine. He served as group superior of Maryknollers in Wuchow and taught for two years in the Minor Seminary in Kongmoon. He also served the Society in the capacity of Treasurer General.  He spent many years in mission in Hawaii. In his later years he served in various capacities
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12234
title: Village scene on Essequibo river, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "Village scene, Essequibo river." View from chapel on Essequibo river showing the canal and typical wooden dwellings.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early Nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11675
title: Five Mende women, Sierra Leone, ca. 1927-28.

description: " Mendi women."; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland"  compiled by  Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Mendiland is in the south west of Sierra Leone, the home of Mende-speaking people.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10807
title: Women leaving Ginling College chapel, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1919

description: "Ginling College, Nanking, China. April 1919. Crossing the court from chapel." A group of young Chinese women leaving a church service.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11677
title: Missionary party travelling, Sierra Leone ca. 1927-28.

description: " Through the Long Grass." Methodist missionaries and party travelling in Sierra Leone.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland"  compiled by  Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11688
title: After a storm, Sierra Leone ca. 1927-28.

description: " After The Storm." Scene after a storm.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Mendiland is in the south west of Sierra Leone, the home of Mende-speaking people.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12221
title: Methodist church school, Georgetown, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "Trinity Day School."  Pupils of the school photographed just after leaving Trinity Church, Georgetown.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early Nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12
title: Close-up view of thatched wooden huts in forest village, Madagascar, ca.1865-1885

description: One of four views from album page entitled " Forest Villages" .; John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12236
title: Chapel congregation, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "The congregation at Dieu Merci."  Dieu Merci church was a Methodist church on the River Pomeroon.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early Nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12223
title: Sea wall, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "The sea wall." Sea wall along part of the coast of Guyana.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early Nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10842
title: Graduates and students walking into commencement, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1922

description: "Ginling College -- Nanking, China. Commencement, 1922." A group of Chinese women in caps and gowns crossing the courtyard toward the graduation ceremony indoors. In front of them are non-matriculated students in white tops and dark skirts.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12231
title: Leper home, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "The leper home."  Entrance to government Leper home.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early Nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11663
title: Bunumbu, Sierra Leone, ca. 1927-28.

description: " Bunumbu." View of  Bunumbu.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland"  compiled by  Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Mendiland is in the south west of Sierra Leone, the home of Mende-speaking people.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10806
title: Students in costume for a play, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1918

description: "Dramatics at Ginling College. Growth from the Source of Peace, Conscience and the Seven Virtues (alone the Angel of Enlightenment)." Nine young Chinese women in costumes for a play, all but one have their hair in two long braids. One young woman stands above the others, dressed as an angel.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11685
title: Boy's boarding school, Bunumbu, Sierra Leone ca. 1927-28.

description: " Bunumbu Boy's Boarding School."  The buildings of the this Methodist school were built by the local chief.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Mendiland is in the south west of Sierra Leone, the home of Mende-speaking people.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10816
title: Faculty at Ginling walking in caps and gowns, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1922

description: "Faculty -- Ginling 1922" A line of predominantly  female faculty walk through the courtyard wearing caps and gowns.  To the side, doors are open to show people seated indoors.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10853
title: Library at Ginling College, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1920

description: "Library -- Ginling." Several women in a library, most seated at desks or tables and reading. One woman is at a bookshelf to look for a book.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10843
title: Ginling College class of 1922, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1922

description: "Ginling College, Class of 1922 -- Miss Mead, Honorary Member." Ten Chinese women in caps and gowns standing for a photo outdoors. Ms. Mead stands in the center of the group, also in cap and gown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10846
title: Graduation ceremony, Ginling College, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1922

description: "Conferring degrees at Ginling, June 1922." A room filled with people seated in chairs. At the front of the room are the graduates and faculty.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10855
title: Ginling College students gathered for lantern festival, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1920

description: "Lantern Festival -- Ginling College." A long line of women around a pond, each holding a paper lantern.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12249
title: Catechist, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "An East Indian catechist."; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11684
title: Pupils of a village school, Sierra Leone ca. 1927-28.

description: " Mission village school." Pupils of a Methodist village school.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Mendiland is in the south west of Sierra Leone, the home of Mende-speaking people.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12230
title: Row of school girls singing, Guyana, s.d.

description: "School girls singing an action-song."  School girls in the village of Mocca, Guyana singing a "negro spiritual" song.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early Nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10890
title: Dedication ceremony for new buildings at Ginling, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1934

description: "Ginling College. Dedication of New Buildings -- 1934. Faculty and Speakers in Procession." Professors on their way to ceremony, all wearing caps and gowns. They are walking on a pathway outdoors near a large building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10641
title: China Inland Mission missionaries in Chinese clothing, Zhejiang, China, 1900

description: "Cheh-Kiang Province, C. I. M. Missionaries, 1900." [now Zhejiang] Missionaries wearing both Western and Chinese style clothing posing for a portrait.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10840
title: Graduates and teachers at commencement, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1922

description: "Faculty and students -- Ginling College -- Nanking, China. Commencement 1922." A large group of women and some men outdoors. Those in the center are all wearing caps and gowns, a mix of students and faculty.  To the right and left are more women in white tops and dark bottoms, presumably other students.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10864
title: Dedication of the new Ginling campus, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1923

description: "Dedication Exercises, Oct. 31, 1923. Faculty section in the rear, Board of ...(?), college representatives and speakers." A line of faculty in caps and gowns walk past the new college buildings.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10852
title: View of inner courtyard, old campus of Ginling College, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1920

description: "Across the front courts of Mrs. Thurston's home, Ginling College, Nanking. Miss Meade In the distance." An inner courtyard viewed from a circular opening in the wall.  In the far distance the figure of a woman is visible.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12091
title: Palace door, Ilesha, Nigeria, s.d.

description: "Wooden door in the palace."  A carved wooden door at the palace of the Owa of Ilesha.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Ilesha" introducing and describing Wesleyan Methodist work at the hospital and medical mission at Ilesha, a Yoruba town, the former capital of a kingdom ruled over by an Owa.  Medical work began in 1916 with the opening of a dispensary. The construction of a hospital followed  in the 1920s.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10803
title: Women working in chemistry lab, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1918

description: "Chemistry Laboratory in 'Old Ginling.' President Wu as a student at right." Four women working in a chemistry lab.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10804
title: Ginling College students in biology lab, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1918

description: "Here is a Biology class at work. Can you see the fancy decorations of bugs behind them? Left to right, Miss Je (?), Miss Liu, Wen Dzen; Miss Hsu, Fidelia; Miss Dyu; Miss Hu." Five female students, each seated at a desk and working on various experiments.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12288
title: Preparing palm oil, Cameroon, ca.1920-1930

description: "Cameroun - preparation de l'huile de palme" ("Preparation of the palm oil").  A woman carries a large bundle of sticks and a basket on her head while a crouching man tends to a barrel covered in large leaves.  A young child sits nearby.; The back of the postcard is blank, with a printed address for the publisher: "Ste des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Bd Arago, Paris." The Société des Missions Evangéliques was a Protestant organisation known in English as the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12321
title: Pineapple fields, Yaounde, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

description: "YAOUNDE. - Les Plantations - Champs d'Ananas" ("Plantations - Pineapple Fields").  One missionary sister and a few other adults are visible in a large field of pineapple plants.  Postcard issued by Les Soeurs Missionnaires du Saint-Espirt au Cameroun.; The back of the postcard is blank. Les Soeurs Missionnaires du Saint-Esprit au Cameroun was a women's Catholic religious order.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10891
title: Notable visitors to Ginling College, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1934

description: "The Reverend J.G. Magee of the American Church Mission, Dr. Yi-fang Wu, Madame and General Chiang Kai-shek at the Baccalaureate Service, Ginling College, Nanking, China, June 1934." [now Nanjing] A Western man stands in cap and gown, next to him a Chinese woman in cap and gown, and next to her a Chinese woman and man, the woman in a Chinese style dress and the man in a white suit.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10854
title: Psychology class at Ginling College, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ca.1920

description: "Miss Butler's psychology class -- Ginling College." Five Chinese women sit by a table, all holding books open, with their teacher sitting across from them.  The class is set on a covered porch by the outdoor gardens.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12310
title: Man and his donkey on the road, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

description: "9. Un Houassa avec son ane" ("An Houassa with his ass").  A man with hat and staff stands on the road next to his donkey which is loaded with two side baskets.  In the background a man stands holding the reigns of a horse.  Postcard issued by Mission des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin.; The back of the postcard is blank with printed information about the mission agency: "Procure de la Mission du Cameroun: 214, Rue Lafayette, Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Edit. M. Brochard. 81, quai Fosse - Nantes" The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12306
title: Missionary house with thatched roof, Foumban, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

description: "9. Mission de Foumban - La Maison des peres" ("Mission of Foumban - the House of the fathers").  Six people mingle in front of a long wooded house with a thatched roof and large porch.  Postcard issued by Mission des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin.; The back of the postcard is blank with printed information about the mission agency: "Procure de la Mission du Cameroun: 214, Rue Lafayette, Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Edit. M. Brochard. 81, quai Fosse - Nantes" The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12099
title: Medical stall at a village market, Nigeria, s.d.

description: "A doctor's shop." Owner of market stall selling indigenous remedies for illness.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Ilesha" introducing and describing Wesleyan Methodist work at the hospital and medical mission at Ilesha, a Yoruba town, the former capital of a kingdom ruled over by an Owa.  Medical work began in 1916 with the opening of a dispensary. The construction of a hospital followed  in the 1920s.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10815
title: Students in physical education class, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1922

description: "1922" Chinese women in uniforms for physical education are on an outdoor court participating in some form of exercise.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10865
title: Ginling College students on their way to services, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1923

description: "Going to Chapel, 1923?" A line of students on their way to church services.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m12238
title: Girl of Indian extraction, Guyana, ca. 1934.

description: "An East Indian girl." Descendant of the Indian indentured labourers brought into Guyana during the nineteenth century.; One of a set of lantern slides entitled "The Land of the Water Lily (British Guiana)" compiled by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Guiana [Guyana] became a British possession in 1802. Methodist missionary activity in what was then known as Demerara dates from the early nineteenth century.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10813
title: Ginling College class of 1921, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1921

description: "Class of 1921 -- Ginling College. Good of the clan. I look(?) asleep M.C.T." Ten Chinese women in cap and gown stand in a courtyard, each holding flowers. Ginling President Matilda Thurston sits at the center, also in cap and gown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10879
title: Ginling College faculty dressed up for banquet, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1931

description: Faculty stunt -- Founder's Day Banquet, Ginling College, 1931." A line of faculty and students outdoors for a parade. Some are dressed up elaborately.  A few women toward the back hold up a banner reading "Class of 1930.