cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10274
title: Preparing wool at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "A tour through the Woolwork Department" "Our hope that poor students could earn here, outside of class hours, what they needed toward their school expenses, has for the past five years, been fully realized." "Process #1: The heaviest dirt is removed from the wool in a very simple, locally-made machine." A group of women in dresses and aprons stand outside by an old fashioned wash bin. Three of the women are holding baskets of wool.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10119
title: University day speech, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 1949

description: "University Day, May 14, 1949.  President L(?) addresses a crowd of staff, students, alumni, and guests."  A man in cap and gown stands at a microphone to speak.  Behind him stands a woman in a cardigan and dress, a man operating the speakers, and a large amout of people seated in chairs.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10272
title: Sunday School project of Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "A Religious Education Project -- Sunday School : Every Sunday, thirty Bible school students go to ten different places (5 in the country) and teach a total of 450-500 students." A group of young students standing in a square formation, with adults nearby.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10163
title: People gathered for religious discussion, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1935

description: "Taken at the Vardons.  A gathering of members + 'inquirers.'  Aren't the roses pretty!" Two rows of people, predominantly Chinese, gathered for a photo outside of a house.  Tall rosebushes stand behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10315
title: Child of teacher at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "Children of Teachers in the school." A child on a tricycle, taken outside a building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10253
title: Religion teacher, Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "Mr. Y.K. Chao (Rel. Ed.)." A man in a Chinese style robe, holding a book in his hand.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10245
title: Entrance to the Catherine S. Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "A tour of inspection will bring us first through the front gate to..." A walkway leading to  a gateway in a low wall.  There is snow on the ground.; Paul and Charlotte Reynolds were missionaries serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Fenchow, Shansi Province.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10250
title: Pastor ready for "clean-up day" at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "Mr. Han Tao Yuan ("Pastor") going out to lead the students on 'clean-up day" A man holding a small broom and shovel.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10279
title: Making skeins of yarn at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "Process #6: coiling the yarn into skeins." Three women sit outdoors, spinning yarn on to wheels that will make skeins.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10174
title: Ordination of Chinese bishops, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1930

description: "Ordination of two Bishops Song (sung) Ku (gu)" Men in Bishop robes stand in front of a building.  The three Western bishops are standing, while the two Chinese bishops are seated in chairs.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10328
title: Chickens at animal husbandry program of Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "White Leghorn Chickens used for teaching students the science of chicken-raising and for improving the stock in near-by villages." Two people standing outside with a flock of chickens running around.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10169
title: Surveyors at work, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1930

description: "Base A" Two men are in a field, setting up surveying equipment.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10312
title: Children with tricycle, wagon and ball, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "The 'bike' is a gift to us from a Chinese friend who visited us, and thought us pretty nice.  The grand rubber ball came to us form a friend in America." Children outdoors, one holding a large ball, two on a tricycle, and two in a wagon.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10297
title: Making baby layettes at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "The Nursery Department. Here we have from fifteen to twenty children (of our students) all under seven years of age.  They provide an excellent laboratory in which they theory taught in the classroom may be put into practice" "A Class in Home-Economics makes a baby's layette." Women sit outside and work on making baby blankets.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10307
title: Children brushing teeth at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "This is the way we brush our teeth." Four small children outdoors, brushing their teeth and holding cups in which to spit.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10302
title: Child on walkway at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "So big." A small child on a raised wooden walkway with his finger pointed to the sky.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10309
title: Children riding in a wagon, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "A 'Monkey-Ward' cart is our choicest possession." A child pulls a wagon possibly purchased from Montgomery Ward department store.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10301
title: Child eating at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "Born to happiness" is equally dexterous with chopsticks or a spoon.  In fact, he can use both at once. Can you?" A young boy eats from a bowl, a spoon at his mouth, and chopsticks in his left hand.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10313
title: Cotton farming at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "At the left Mr. Wang Kuan San, our teacher in this department.  He is a graduate of Cheeloo Theological Seminary and the Agricultural Dept. of the University of Nanking." "Cotton raised at the School Experiment station." Two men stand by small cotton plants outdoors.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10310
title: Children on swings at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "The swings are a never-failing source of entertainment." Three small children sit on swings hanging close to the ground.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10118
title: Several department heads with President Dsang, West China Union University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1940

description: "Left to right:  Wang, Department of Agriculture; Chang, Head of Dept. of Biology; President Dsang; Dr. Frank Dickinson, our Head of Agricultural Extension; Hwang (?) -- it is hoped he will return to head up Agriculture." A group of five men, four Asian and one Western, posing for a photo by a bush.  One of the men is wearing Chinese style clothing, while the others are in suits.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10203
title: Carved wooden panels for sale, Yunnan, China, 1927

description: "'Show me what the rest of the set is like.' -- Prospective buyers at Rali's lattice section of the Fair.  Typical Yünnan bird, flower + tree designs against swastika fret background." Some people are looking at highly carved panels for sale.; Daniel Dye, a faculty member at West China Union University, traveled around looking for specimens of Chinese woodworking and latticework.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10308
title: Children seated for dinner at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "Dinner-time." Three small children wearing aprons and seated around a small table.  An adult stands in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10311
title: Children on see-saw at Harwood Bible Training School, Fenyang, Shanxi, China, ca.1936-37

description: "In fact, we seem to enjoy all the things that American children do!" Children fill up a see-saw and it is tipped to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10196
title: Intricately carved doors on temple guildhall, Tengchong, Yunnan, China, ca.1912

description: "The glory of Yunnan is the carving on the doors of its temples.  These are from the temple hall at the back of Tengyueh guildhall Yung Chiang.  Upper section flowers + trees + birds in quite naturalistic fashion, middle panels squirrels + a rope vines etc.  lower lights conventionalized." [now Tengchong] Panels on a door that have been intricately carved with scenes of trees, flowers and animals.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1086
title: Mission house and family, Vizianagaram, India, 1889

description: "Our neighbours, Vizianagram. 1889." Group of missionary's family including children on horses with names underneath including, Freddie, Ocean, Mrs. Gill, Mr. Gill, Bertha and Lottie.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1062
title: Indigenous Christians in village, Vizianagaram, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Christian village. Vizianagram." Large group of men, women and children outside homes.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10690
title: Sacred bull, Andhra Pradesh, India, s.d.

description: "A sacred bull visits the bungalow ."   Two youths with a sacred bull seen outside the missionary bungalow.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Highways and Byways in a Hyderabad Circuit" compiled by the Methodist missionary Rev J.C.Knight Anstey (d. 1947) who served in that particular district for 28 years, from 1892 to 1920. It is thought that most of the photographs in the set were taken by Anstey himself during his period of service.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10704
title: Religious fair at Jidkal temple, Andhra Pradesh, India, s.d.

description: "The outer court." The outer court of Jidkal temple during a religious fair.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Highways and Byways in a Hyderabad Circuit" compiled by the Methodist missionary Rev J.C.Knight Anstey (d. 1947) who served in that particular district for 28 years, from 1892 to 1920. It is thought that most of the photographs in the set were taken by Anstey himself during his period of service.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10541
title: Women arriving at a town in the Shan Hills, Myanmar, ca. 1930s

description: Women arriving at a town in the Shan Hills.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10531
title: School building and playing field,  Monywa,  Myanmar, s.d.

description: Assembly hall, dormitory and school playing field of the mission school at Monywa.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "The Kingdom in Burma"  compiled by Rev Frank E Skinner  who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1916 to 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in  Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1055
title: Group standing by well, Vizianagaram, India , ca. 1885-1895.

description: "Well. Vizianagram Cantonment". View of men and women queuing to collect water from well.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1057
title: Missionary standing with villagers, Vizianagaram,  India , ca.1885

description: "Vizianagram". Printed as an engraving in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society with the caption, "Some of the Wanderers visited by missionaries." This engraving accompanies a regular feature in the Chronicle called "Appeals from Wanderers in the Dark", where Rev. Goffin introduced first hand accounts from the mission field.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1065
title: Portrait of women and girls in sewing class, Vizianagaram, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Sewing Class, Vizianagram". Female missionary, possibly Sarah Goffin, with her daughter and Indian women and girls sewing outside mission house.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1053
title: View of clock tower, Vizianagaram, India , ca. 1885-1895

description: "Clock Tower. Vizianagram". View of clock tower in town.; Herbert Goffin refers to this place as a popular location for sermons and evangelistic missionary work in his reports published in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society in the 1880's.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1082
title: Missionaries sitting outside tent with Indian men, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Under a Mango tree." Herbert Goffin and another missionary with Indian men seated and standing outside tent in shade of tree.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11639
title: School girls fetching water, Segbwema, Sierra Leone, ca. 1927-28.

description: "Girls carrying water." Girls from the boarding school at Segbwema going to fetch water from a stream.; 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-m1061
title: Missionary's family and indigenous preachers's family outside village home, Uripeta, India, ca.1885-1895

description: "Philip's House. Uripeta". Sarah Goffin  with two daughters and Philip, and Indian preacher, with his wife and two children outisde Philip's house. Other men a grouped in the background.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1060
title: Village scene, Uripeta, India, ca.1885-1895

description: "Uripeta". Villagers and missionary's horse and cart in village.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1071
title: Young British woman on horse, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Mary Innes. Chittiwalsah." Young woman on horseback in front of mission house, Chittiwalsah.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1089
title: Mission house and family, Waltair,  Vishakhatapnam, India, 1889

description: "Rev. M. and Mrs. Thomas and family. Waltair." Missionary with wife and children, two of whom are seated in a pony and trap in front of mission house.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1066
title: Indigenous preacher in front of his house with children, Bhimasingi, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Muniswami's house, Bhimasingi. Little Winnie". Indigenous preacher with children outside his house. Other villagers standing o the left. Pony and trap on right with missionary's daughter, Winnie.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59584
title: Portrait of a young Japanese woman sitting in a chair, Japan, ca. 1930-1950

description: Colorized postcard of a young Japanese woman wearing a highly-decorated kimono sitting in a chair. Her left arm is propped on a pillow and her left hand is under her chin. she wears a white hat.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1056
title: Missionary with family outside mission house, Vishakhatapnam, India , ca.1885-1887.

description: "Rev E Le Mare. Vizagapatam" [now Vishakhatapnam]. Ebenezer Le Mare served the LMS in South India from 1873 to 1887.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m10691
title: Snake charmer, Andhra Pradesh, India, s.d.

description: "The Snake charmer."   The snake charmers photographed en route to a town.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Highways and Byways in a Hyderabad Circuit" compiled by the Methodist missionary Rev J.C.Knight Anstey (d. 1947) who served in that particular district for 28 years, from 1892 to 1920. It is thought that most of the photographs in the set were taken by Anstey himself during his period of service.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m1080
title: Missionary party in boat, Chittiwalsah, India, ca.1885-1889

description: "Back-water - Chittiswalsah." Missionary with women and children in sailing boat on river.; One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India.  Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m11638
title: Girls at their lessons, in the boarding school at Segbwema, Sierra Leone, ca. 1927-28.

description: "The Girls in School." Girls, a number of whom are daughters of chiefs, at lessons in the girls' boarding school at Segbwema.; 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.