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DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6777
title: John Fong Ying, former catechist at Xinning, China, 1929

description: This is a photograph of "John Fong Ying, former catechist of Fr. Superior in Boston, Mass. [about 1908] now a proprietor of a resaurant in Fitchburg, Mass. He is one of our prize Christians of Sunning [now Xinning] where he is helping us get a mission started. He leaves China for U.S. next month. Has visited the writer's brother and family in Worcester, Mass. And the Cairns family with Margt Murray, head of the Theophane Venard Circle of Worcester visited John in Fitchburg." He wears an western suit and tie.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6774
title: A man smoking a long pipe in China, 1936

description: This is a photograph of a man enjoying a smoke on his long pipe. The pipe is made of bamboo and he is dressed warmly with a hat. The city is unkown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6814
title: A farmer at Guangxi, China, 1941

description: This is a photograph of a man who is a farmer at Kwangzi [now Guangxi]. He wears a large rimmed sun hat made of straw and has white hair, mustache and beard. In the background is farm land.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6782
title: A man and his water buffalo in China, 1946

description: This is a photograph of a man and his water buffalo. "Man's best friend in China is the water buffalo." The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6770
title: An elderly man with a long pipe at Luojing, China, 1934

description: This is a photograph of "Mr. Poon of Loking [now Luoding]. This is a typical picture of and old timer with his long Chinese pipe. The pipe is made out of bamboo and gives a very cool smoke. The pipe was too long for one picture. The thing that looks like a spider is his tobacco pouch which is suspended from the pipe by means of a string. The pipe holds enough [of] tobacco for a short and refreshing drag. How does he light the pipe? The pipe is too long and his arm too short to light it with an ordinary match. The method: he prepares the pipe, lights a long Chinese 'slow match', places the match on the table, walks a short distance, sits down, puts the pipe in his mouth, makes contact with the distant match, and the fire starts. Another method: puts the Chinese 'slow match' between his toes, rest the pipe on the ground and lights it. Rather amusing to see this operation and how clever these Chinese men are. Mr. Poon is 66 years old. He is a school teacher and has plenty of money 'salted away.' He isn't a Christian yet, but expects to be soon."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6778
title: Indian police at Jiangnan, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of Indian police at Kiangnan [now Jiangnan]. " They're imported from India." He wears a uniform and a striped turban like hat.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6780
title: A Hakka man at his fire place at Meixien, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a Hakka man sitting by his fire place on a street at Kaying [now Meixien]. To the right is a barefoot child sitting next to a basket that is as big as the child.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6769
title: A graduate of Catholic University in Beijing, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of man named "Tsai Shan Pei who is one of the graduates from the Catholic University of Peking" [now Beijing]. He stands in a garden and wears a cap and gown and is holding a diploma.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6781
title: Wong Sin Shaang, head of doctrine school at Huazhou, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of "Wong Sin Shaang, head of Fachow's [now Huazhou] doctrine school.The hens he is tending have since been eaten."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6775
title: A man at home for the elderly at Hong Kong, China, 1950

description: This is a photograph of an elderly man from the home for the elderly being run by the Little Sisters of the Poor at Hong Kong.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6772
title: Palm Sunday at the manchurian mission at Dalian, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of a man celebrating "Palm Sunday - nmte the green tree branch used for palm." Taken at the Dairen [now Dalian] Manchurian mission. The man is holding a prayer book and has a long beard and glasses.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6776
title: A man demonstrates how to smoke a waterpipe at Wuzhou, China, 1946

description: This is a photograph of "an idler in the tailor shop demonstrating how to puff a taper into flame and how to smoke the waterpipe."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6819
title: A Chinese beggar in China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a Chinese beggar who carries a wooden box in one hand and a bamboo stick in another. The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6779
title: A new convert in China, 1931

description: This is a photograph of a "new convert burning the spirit house of his ancestors." The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6825
title: A man on a boat at Beijing, China, 1936

description: This is a photograph of a man sitting on his boat. It is tied up to a dock. The boat is wooden and has straw mat coverings over the cargo.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6821
title: An old man along the road at Dongzhen, China, 1937

description: This is a photograph of a man who is refered to as a "Hill Billy, a grand old man." He is walking in the mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6820
title: Minister of Finance in China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of "Li si Hou, Minister of Finance. Responsible for many of the loans contracted with Japan - a servant  of the Anfu Club - dishonest - unpatriotic." He is dressed in a suit and has two large medals pinned to his jacket. His hair is slickly combed back. The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6810
title: A Sancian Catechist at Sai Ngan Peng, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of a man named "Joe Lay, a Sancian Catechist at Sai Ngan Peng [Western Cow Plains]. Joe and wife and three children live in the tumbling-down fresh air school church building."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6808
title: A graduate of Sacred Heart College at Guangzhou, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of "Francis Xavier Chan, a graduate of Sacred Heart College, Canton [now Guangzhou]. Wants education in America."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6815
title: A farmer at Guangxi, China, 1941

description: This is a photograph of a man who is a farmer at Kwangzi [now Guangxi]. He wears a sun hat made of straw. An example of the many hat styles in Guangzi. In the background is farm land.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6826
title: One of the catechist's at Ducheng, China, 1937

description: This is a photograph of "the No. 2 catechist at Dosing [now Ducheng]."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6827
title: Man walking by the river at Luoding, China, 1937

description: This is a photograph of a man walking by the river and bringing a chicken home for supper.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6816
title: A catechist at Linzhai, China, 1932

description: This is a photograph of a man who is a good catechist, sitting in a chair outdoors at Lumchai [now Linzhai] . He wears a white cassock with an western style hat.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6817
title: Mr. Lo Pa Hong's son at Shanghai, China, 1924

description: This is a photograph of "a good friend of Maryknoll, Mr. Lo's son." He is wearing a cassock and appears to be standing on a boat.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6824
title: Catechist and door keeper at the Mission at Liantan, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of "the smiling Mr. Paul Lau, who is catechist and door keeper at the Mission at Lintaan [now Liantan]."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6818
title: A doctor at University at Guangzhou, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of "Dr. Chen Ping Chuan, President of Canton [now Guangzhou] University." He is wearing glasses and a western style suit and tie.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7539
title: The Parish group at the Japanese Mission at Fushun, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a the parish group at the Japanese Mission with Maryknoll Fathers and Sisters. The group includes men, women and children of all ages.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7519
title: Frs. Cairns and McShane at French Convent with orphans at Hong Kong, China, 1921

description: This is a photograph of Frs. Cairns [back, left] and McShane [back, right], Sisters of the French convent and orphans with abandoned babies that Fr. McShane brought from Loting [now Luoding ] to the Hong Kong orphanage. Each person holds a baby except for the Fathers.; Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty-four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. During WWII he was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941. -- Rev. McShane was born in Indiana.  He joined Maryknoll in 1912 as a deacon, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1914, the first ordained for Maryknoll.  He was assigned to Tungchen in 1919 and to Loting the following year.  There he set up an orphanage for abandoned children.  In 1927 he contracted smallpox from a dying infant, which brought about his own death. He was buried in front of the Loting parish rectory.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6832
title: A view across the river at the city of Guilin, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of the view "looking across the [Guangxi] river. The city [Guilin] is on the other side." In the foreground are men working on their boats at the river edge.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6812
title: An elderly man smoking a long pipe at mission at Meixien, China, 1931

description: This is a photograph of an elderly man who is smoking a long pipe at the Kaying [now Meixien] Mission. He wears a large rimmed sun hat and has a white beard and mustache.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6835
title: Mr. Francois Xavier Jefferson at Shantung, China, 1914

description: This is a photograph of "Mr. Francois Xavier Jefferson of Shantung." He is wearing a three piece suit for this portrait.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6880
title: A woman mending a fishing net at Wuzhou, China, 1936

description: This is a photograph of a woman repairing a net. She is using a long instrument to sew the pieces together. She wears a straw sun hat that covers her face.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6874
title: A woman with bound feet at Xinhui, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of "Mrs. Mary Chan, 80 years old, baptized June 9, 1935." This woman has bound feet an old custom that is not practiced much anymore. She is sitting in a chair outside and wears a rosary around her neck.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6836
title: A former Buddhist priest at Sac Tsin, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of "A former Buddhist priest who burned over 200 lbs. of incense a year before idols. Now converted, he is in the Sac Tsin Mission, each feast day he walks thirteen miles to the mission."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6876
title: A woman making shades in China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a woman who makes bamboo shades using thin bamboo sticks and string to tie them together. This is all done by hand. The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6894
title: The catechist at Yangjiang, China, 1931

description: This is a photograph of a woman named "Mrs. Rose Ho, catechist at Yeungkong [now Yangjiang]." She is holding a white book and another unknown object in her left hand and holding up three fingers on the right hand. She is dressed in black shirt and pants.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6834
title: A Chinese painter at Wuzhou, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of "Mr. Luke Chen, a Chinese painter." He wears a black cassock with black socks and shoes and wears glasses. He is standing in a courtyard.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6840
title: A language teacher at Gaozhou, China, 1931

description: This is a photograph of one of the Maryknoll priest's language teacher. The priest says "Friends of mine in America are helping me to educate this boy. Now a student at Sacred Heart School. He teaches me Chinese an hour a day."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6838
title: Principal of the school at Soule, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of "a local Christian at the moon gate. Principal of the Siaoloc [now Soule] school run by the parish."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6842
title: A groom in China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a groom to be married. He wears a white cassock and a hat and is standing in a field. He does not look particularly happy. The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6843
title: A fisherman in Meixien, China, 1936

description: This is a photograph of a man fishing at Kaying [now Meixein] using a bamboo pole. He is wearing a white shirt and shorts and is sitting by the side of the water.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6895
title: A girl who aspires to be a Sister at Zhongxin, China, 1939

description: This is a photograph of a girl named "Anne Chong [of Buddha's Mountain pass, by Fr. O'Day's Taofuken mission] highly intelligent and what's more a very spiritual young lady, hopes to be a Kaying [now Meixien] Sister."; Rev. O'Day was born in Pawtucket, RI.  He entered Maryknoll in 1917 and was ordained in 1928.  He was assigned to Kaying.  He remained there apart from 2 brief furloughs until forced by health reasons to return to the U.S. in 1950.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7529
title: A little boy at the Japanese Mission at Fushun, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a little boy wearing a sailor suit at the Fushun Japanese Mission.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7543
title: Fr. Escalante's church at Fushun, China, 1935

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Escalante's church at Fushun. The church is built with stone and brick and has ornate windows and a chimney. A crucifix is placed at the center ridge of the roof.; Fr. Alonso M. Escalante was born in Merida, Mexico, educated in Catholic Schools in Mexico and the United States. He entered Maryknoll Preparatory Seminary in 1920 and was ordained a Priest on February 1, 1931. His missionary labors took him to Fushun, Manchuria, China and later to the Pando, Bolivia. In 1943 he was named by the Holy See as Vicar Apostolic of the Pando and Titular Bishop of Sora. He was consecrated a Bishop in Mexico City on May 9, 1943. In 1948, at the request of the Mexican Hierarchy, he was assigned to assist in the organizing of a Foreign Mission Seminary and Society for Mexico. He was the Mexican National Director of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, a member of the Commission and Post-Conciliar Commission on the Missions, and President of the Mexican Episcopal Commission on the Missions. He was in Hong Kong in 1967 to secure mission territory for his Mexican Priests, when he caught typhoid fever and died on June 21, 1967.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6879
title: An elderly woman at Wuzhou, China, 1950

description: This is a photograph of an elderly woman leaning against a brick wall. She wears a black shirt and has grey hair. The lines on her face are deep and many.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6890
title: A milkmaid milking a yak at Kansu/Tsinghai border, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a "milkmaid milking a yak of the wild Tibetan tribe called Si Fan on Kansu/Tsinghai border." In the background there are mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6841
title: Maryknoll priests first home in Haimen, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of "our home and first building at Ngaimoon [now Haimen] at one end of property [1/2 mile by 1 mile]. On this spot ... in 1940,1941 we ran a free 70 bed refugee hospital. Half the patients were Chinese guerrillas, casualties in occupied territory across the river."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6875
title: A cook with awards at Tsiaoliang, China, 1937

description: This is a photograph of "the cook with his medal and certificate." It is unknown what he has earned them for. He wears a black cassock with the medal pinned to it and is holding the certificate.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6892
title: Harvesting rice at Dongan, China, 1937

description: This is a photograph of a woman in the rice fields harvesting the rice at Tungon [now Dungon]. The rice plants are tied and ready to be cut down and threshed into the barrels to catch the rice.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6899
title: A woman begging at Beijing, China, 1936

description: This is a photograph of an example of a lady beggar in the streets of Beijing. She wears tattered and worn clothes and shoes and carries a basket and a pole.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6844
title: A boat builder at Changpu, China, 1940

description: This is a photograph of a "boat builder who takes pride in his workmanship." He is wearing black and leaning up against his work in progress.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6893
title: Planting rice at Meixien, China, 1936

description: This is a photograph of a woman planting rice in a rice field. She wears a hat that covers her head and neck.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7027
title: Lepers at Sheklung, China, 1918

description: This is a photograph of children and adults at the leprosarium at Sheklung. In the photograph is a visiting Fr. James A. Walsh, founder of Maryknoll.; Born in Massachusetts and educated at Boston public schools, Bp. Walsh attended Boston College and Harvard University before entering St. John's Seminary at age 19. He was ordained on May 20, 1892. He spent the first ten years as a priest in pastoral work at St. Patrick's Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1903 his mission spirit came alive when he was appointed Diocesan Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.  As Director, Father Walsh founded "The Field Afar", a publication to supplement the Annals of the SPF.  In 1910, Fr. Walsh met Fr. Thomas F. Price of North Carolina at the Eucharistic Congress in Montreal. They worked out a plan for the American foreign mission seminary. The plan was approved by the American Hierarchy and Pope Pius X in 1911. In 1912, property was purchased to build a Seminary in Ossining, NY. In 1917 Maryknoll was ready to go to the missions and Fr. Walsh traveled through the Orient in search of a mission. Bishop de Guebriant in South China entrusted his mission in Yeungkong and Loting in the care of Maryknoll. The first mission set out for China in 1918.  In 1933 Fr. Walsh was consecrated Titular Bishop of Siene. Bishop Walsh lived to ordain thirty-seven Maryknollers and to consecrate as Bishop his first Seminarian, Francis X. Ford. Bishop Walsh died in 1936 and is buried at Maryknoll.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6900
title: A woman carrying grass for fuel at Gaozhou, China, 1938

description: This is a photograph of a woman carrying two large bails of grass on a pole carrier which she will bring home and use for fuel to cook meals.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6898
title: A fine lady at Soule, China, 1931

description: This is a photograph of an example of a fine lady of Siaoloc [now Soule]. She is wearing a headdress with her hair pulled back and earings.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m6930
title: An elderly woman with a cane in China, 1941

description: This is a photograph of an elderly woman. She is clutching a cane made of a tree branch. She wears a coat and a scarf over her head. The city is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7566
title: A Sodality Procession at Fushun, China, 1940

description: This is a photograph of a Sodality Procession taking place at Fushun. The women are wearing veils and walking in line through the moon entrance.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7577
title: Sr. Celine Marie with girls at Fushun, China, 1938

description: This is a photograph of "three girls of a wealthy home who had begun to study the doctrine. At the same time the mother became ill and started 'devil curses', She blames her illness to her chidrens' contact with the faith and made them break off all connections. But we're hopeful yet!"
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7547
title: Fr. Kaschmitter at Fushun, China, ca.1930

description: This is a photograph of Maryknoll Father Kaschmitter at Fushun in the 1930's.; Born in Iowa, Fr. Kaschmitter came to Maryknoll before 1920 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1924. He was then assigned to teach Moral Theology and Church History at Maryknoll as well as being Spiritual Director of the Brothers. In 1932 Fr. Kaschmitter worked in the Los Angeles Japanese mission and was then assigned to Fushun, Manchuria in 1933. He spent four years as a teacher in the seminary in Fushun and then in 1937 he went to work in Peking as a member of the Synodal Commission in charge of the Lumen News Service. During the war years he was interned in Peking and returned to the United States in 1946. He then put his journalistic ability to work in Japan, working for the information department of the National Catholic Committee.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7550
title: Corpus Christi procession at Fushun, China, 1940

description: This is a photograph of the "Corpus Christi procession as it pauses on the line of march from the church to the Bishop's garden, for Benediction in the novitiate yard. The club girls wearing white veils are kneeling direclty in front of the door which leads to our canonical novitiate, where under Sr. Veronica Marie [novice mistress], six whitecaps, Sisters Herman, John, Joseph, Therese, Margaret and Martin - our first six 'Madames of Fushun' - native Sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart are being trained."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7569
title: Sr. Mercedes with congregation at Fushun, China, 1938

description: This is a photograph of "Sr. Mercedes with some of a Sunday's congregation." The people are in front of the church.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7565
title: A young girl crowns a statue at Fushun, China, 1938

description: This is a photograph of a young girl wearing a veil, crowning the statue of  Mary with a wreath of flowers.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7576
title: St. Joseph's church at Fushun, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of the interior of St. Joseph's church in Fushun during a Mass. Priests are kneeling at the altar. The women in the congregation are seated on the right and all wear white veils.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m7573
title: A Maryknoll Sister visits the Hobei Mission, China, [s.d.]

description: This is a photograph of a Maryknoll Sister "on a mission trip to a farming village with a native companion. We stay two or three days usually, and this means going 'native', including sleeping on the kang etc. It was 40 degrees below zero when this was taken. Usually we go to this mission once a month; Sunday after first Mass-return Monday or Tuesday."