cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78572
title: Natives Carrying Log

description: Black and white lantern slide showing a group of African men carrying a large log, which is attached by ropes to a series of poles. Each man holds one end of a pole on his shoulder. An African man in a long, European style jacket and a tall hat can be seen to the side of the image. This slide comes from a set on the activities of the King’s African Rifles battalions in Nyasaland. It was originally held by the Church of Scotland, and generated by J.W MacKay.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78417
title: Kuling, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring dwellings on the mountains in Kuling (Lushan), a mountain resort area in Jiangxi, southern China favoured by missionaries. The district was established in the late nineteenth century as a resort for European and American travellers and was designed with colonial style architecture. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78509
title: King's African Rifles Band, Malawi, ca. 1914-1918

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring an Askari (native African soldier) military band standing to attention on a parade ground. The band leader stands to the front of the group carrying a mace, with drummers in rows behind and members with other instruments to the rear. The original slide is relatively faded. This slide comes from a set on the activities of the King’s African Rifles battalions in Nyasaland. It was originally held by the Church of Scotland, and generated by J.W MacKay.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78510
title: King's African Rifles Band Portrait, Malawi, ca. 1914-1918

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring a group portrait of an Askari military band. Large drums are arranged on the ground at the front of the picture. More senior officers appear to be sitting near the front of the picture. A single European officer sits towards the centre of the picture wearing uniform and pith helmet. Most men carry bugles. During the First World War, King's African Rifles uniform in Nyasaland was made up of khaki drill with black fezzes (other units outside Nyasaland wore red fezzes). Footwear was normally sandals or men went barefoot, since the British theorised that heavy military boots were unsuitable for recruits unused to such footwear. This slide comes from a set on the activities of the King’s African Rifles battalions in Nyasaland. It was originally held by the Church of Scotland, and generated by J.W MacKay.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78418
title: Hankow Operating Room, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide of a scene set in the operating theatre at the London Missionary Society hospital in Hankow (Hankou). Surgical apparatus and medicines can be seen clearly. Two European doctors tend a patient lying clothed on the operating table. Chinese medical staff stand in their aprons around the theatre. Note the surgical member of staff in the centre of the slide showing his queue, the long plait characteristically worn by Manchu men and enforced on the population during the Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911). In the new Republic of China, the queue was looked down upon as a symbol of the old Imperial regime, and many men cut their hair in response, dating this slide to before 1912. The London Missionary Society first set up a hospital in Hankou in 1866 under Dr Griffith John. In 1889, Margaret Hospital (for women) extended L.M.S medical mission work, for which Hankou had become a centre. Of 95 L.M.S missionaries in China in 1900, 26 were fully qualified doctors. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78511
title: King's African Rifles Band with European Officer, Malawi, ca. 1914-1918

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring a military band of the King's African Rifles posing in a group with a European officer in the centre. Drums are arranged on the ground in the foreground of the image.  The band members hold bugles, and wear fezzes (which would be black for Nyasaland units) and wear dark jerseys, in contrast to the usual khaki worn by troops from the King's African Rifles during the First World War. The uniform may be that worn before the First World War, when dark blue jerseys and puttees (cloths wound around the lower leg) were worn by the King's African Rifles. The European officer wears a khaki uniform with long shorts and a pith helmet, and looks noticeably more relaxed in posture than the African members of the band. By the side of the European sits an African man in a khaki trouser suit and black fez, who may be a more senior officer or band leader. This slide comes from a set on the activities of the King’s African Rifles battalions in Nyasaland. It was originally held by the Church of Scotland, and generated by J.W MacKay.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78383
title: Marco Polo Bridge, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide of Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing, showing a golden statue of a bull in the foreground. The bridge was built in 1192, but was reconstructed in the 17th century, bridging the Yongding river. Also called the Lugou Bridge, it received its nickname following praise in the annals of explorer Marco Polo, who visited the Yuan Dynasty court in the 13th century. In more modern times, the bridge was famed as the area from which Japanese soldiers launched the attack that forced China into declaring war against Japan in 1937. The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78419
title: Bamboo, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide of bamboo growing on an unidentified Chinese hillside. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78420
title: Waterfall, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring three missionaries (two male and one female) sitting on the rocks above a small waterfall in an unnamed area of China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78421
title: Destitute Chinese, China, ca. 1911

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring poor and starving Chinese men and women. This image may depict the human effect of the fighting and looting in Hankow in late 1911 that was to start the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78422
title: Burning of Hankow, China, 1911

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring smoke rising from buildings during the 'burning of Hankow' in November 1911. Figures can be seen walking in the foreground. Hankou was attacked by Qing troops attempting to suppress the anti-Imperial rebellion that began in nearby Wuchang, resulting in the burning of the city. International press reported looting and atrocities that took place inside the city, including of attacks on some foreign mission buildings. This image was probably not taken by Somerville, since a copy is also held by the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78423
title: Firing Guns, China, 1911

description: Black and white lantern slide showing Chinese (possibly Revolutionary) soldiers standing behind and firing cannon. Storage buildings stand in the background. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78424
title: The Deserted Hankow Bund, China, 1911

description: Black and white lantern slide showing Hankow (Hankou) Bund with few pedestrians, and boats on the Yangtze (Changjiang) river. After Hankou was opened up to foreign trade in 1862, foreign concessions lined up along the Yangtze on Hankou Bund, and this strip would have been a bustling business area in more peaceful times. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78425
title: Rebels Entrenched at Kilometre Ten, China, 1911

description: Black and white lantern slide picturing entrenched rebel forces firing at Imperial troops from behind their lines at "kilometre ten" during the 1911 rebellion against the Qing dynasty, from October to December 1911. "Kilometre ten" perhaps refers to the distance from the centre of the city of Hankou, and was a rebel battle station attacked and taken by  Qing troops in late October 1911. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78426
title: Qing Official and Guards, China, ca. 1905-1911

description: Tinted lantern slides featuring a seated Qing Imperial official surrounded by staff and guards. The guards' uniforms have been tinted in an Imperial yellow, and display the Chinese character for soldier (bing) on their jerkins. Despite the national chaos that may have been occurring around them, the composition of the image is rigidly ordered - despite the looks of some of the guards to the camera. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78427
title: Men with Microscope, Hankow, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring four Chinese men. A middle aged man sits at a table in front of a microscope and holds a book. Three other younger men stand behind him. This slide may have been taken at the London Missionary Society hospital at Hankow. The picture may have been taken to show the participation of Chinese nationals in Western medical education and practice, a sign of progress and modernisation in late Qing and early Republican China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/8tr6pi/ahlker
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-4517 (2).tif

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78428
title: Chinese Styles of Writing, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide illustrating both ancient and modern (pre-1949, referred to as traditional) Chinese characters. The evolution of characters from initial resemblance to their signifiers is displayed. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/8tr6pi/pvp3lp
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-4517 (3).tif

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78382
title: Donkey Grinding Corn, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide of a donkey grinding corn. The donkey is blind-folded, and walks in a circle, pulling a large stone attached to a wooden shaft that grinds the corn by crushing it onto another stone platform. This traditional way of grinding corn is practised into the twenty-first century. The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/8tr6pi/9eie5x
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-4517 (5).tif

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DOI: 10.48370/ofd/tf7epu/lky7by
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-3518.tif

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78429
title: View of City, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide showing an aerial view of rooftops in a Chinese city, possibly Hankow (Hankou), where Charles Somerville worked in the London Missionary Society hospital. A river (the Yangtze - or Changjiang) can be seen in the background of the image. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/8tr6pi/p1bwzq
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-4517 (4).tif

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78430
title: Hankow, China, ca. 1905-1911

description: Black and white lantern slide featuring a view of colonial style architecture in Hankow (Hankou). Hankou was opened as a port in 1861 following China's defeat in the Second Opium War (1856 - 1860), and foreign trading powers built residences and customs houses in the colonial style. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/tf7epu
title: Puccinia coronata Corda, 3518

description: Fungarium Micromycetes
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78431
title: A Sedan Chair, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide showing a sedan chair resting on the ground and four of its young, male carriers. The chair sits in front of a wall to a yard, which may be used for storage since barrels are piled up at the rear of the picture. An electric light is installed in a metal archway of the entrance to the yard. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/8tr6pi/erps4d
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-4517.tif

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78432
title: Boats on the Yangtze, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide of the Yangtze river in Hankow (Hankou), showing wooden sampans and junks on the water. Figures can be seen on the sampans. Sampans are  flat-bottomed wooden boats, often used for fishing or transportation in shallow waters. Junks are studier sailing boats with flexible sails, capable of considerable speeds and were used to transport men and cargo on inland waters and seas. This image can also be found in Thompson, R Wardlaw, Griffith John: The Story of Fifty Years in China (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1906), p 220. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/8tr6pi
title: Puccinia coronata Corda, 4517

description: Fungarium Micromycetes
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78433
title: Scene on the Han, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide showing sampans, people and multi-story buildings next to the Han river, a tributary of the Yangtze (Chiangjiang) running through Hankow (Hankou). The Han acted as an important transport route through the southern part of the North China Plain, providing a much more direct route for junks than the Yangtze in Hubei for the journey between Wuhan and Jingzhou. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.23670/irj.2022.115.4.1
title: Ключевые бактериологические признаки штаммов P. aeruginosa

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал 1(115) 1.2022, №1(115) (2022)
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78434
title: Shanghai, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide of a steamship moored in Shanghai, with sampans (wooden flat bottomed boats) in the foreground. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78435
title: Men's Ward Hankow (Winter), China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide picturing a men's ward in the London Missionary Society hospital in Hankow (Hankou). Patients sit up in or on their beds whilst a young man stands in the centre of the ward. This man wears an armband, and may be hospital staff. Beds are formed of wooden planks, with a bed roll and bedstead, and a table with long benches can be seen in the foreground of the picture. A hospital was first started in Hankou by Griffith John of the London Missionary Society as an addition to existing mission buildings in 1866. A women only hospital, the Margaret Memorial Hospital, was opened in 1889 and named after Mrs. Margaret John, the deceased wife of Griffith John. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.23670/irj.2022.115.4.2
title: Оценка эффекта действия препарата «Десам» на рост исследуемых штаммов P. aeruginosa

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал 1(115) 1.2022, №1(115) (2022)
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78436
title: Street Barber, Canton, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide showing a street barber and his young assistant at work in a courtyard in Canton (Guangdong). Customers sit on low stools whilst the barbers shave the front of their heads. A woman sits washing in a large basin in the back corner of the courtyard, and a man stands in the background carrying a shoulder pole. One of the customers has a long queue, suggesting that this photograph was taken before 1912, after which the long plait of hair worn by men in the Qing dynasty was considered sometimes as outmoded and often as a dangerous sign of support for the old regime. The slide is marked with the initials 'M.Y' This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78437
title: L.M.S Stations in China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Black and white lantern slide showing a map of the eastern half of China, marked with mission stations of the London Missionary Society. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78390
title: Grinding corn, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide featuring a peasant woman holding the wooden handle attached to a stone corn grinding wheel. The outer walls of a courtyard can be seen in the background. These walls are pasted with several identical prints, possibly portraying an urn, and the arch into the courtyard is framed with red character 'spring couplet' strips, pasted on during each Spring Festival. The courtyard wall also features a large mural. The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78384
title: Stone statues, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide picturing stone statues, probably removed from their original location. The statues do not appear to be Buddhist, but seem to represent ordinary people and Chinese officials (may be folk religion). The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78397
title: String band, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide featuring a posed portrait of a male string band playing traditional Chinese instruments, including the erhu, yueqin, yangqin, and guanzi (a wind instrument). The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78391
title: Pilgrims, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide of pilgrims at the entrance arch of a temple or holy site. Women sit with baskets in the foreground on the pathway, whilst other individuals stand and sit under the arch. Some people under the arch seem to be sitting with goods to sell. Two barrows stand before either side of the arch. The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/9uu1dv/swt5u3
title: Puccinia coronata Corda F-3396.tif

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DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78396
title: Tientsin New Bridge, China, ca. 1905-1914

description: Tinted lantern slide of the building of a new bridge at Tientsin (Tianjin). Working men sit below the new bridge and on the bridge itself, which is built with iron girders. The bridge is possibly what is now known as Jiefang (Liberation) Bridge over the river Haihe in central Tianjin. Building on this bridge started in 1902, but was rebuilt in 1923 and finally completed in 1927. The slide was developed by the Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China.  This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/9uu1dv
title: Puccinia coronata Corda, 3396

description: Fungarium Micromycetes
DOI: 10.25549/impa-c123-78454
title: Long Canoe Carrying Sand Across for Road Repair, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940

description: Tinted lantern slide showing a long wooden canoe on the water (perhaps the Calabar River) carrying barrels of sand to be used in road repair. Seven individuals travel on the canoe, four at the front of the vessel and three people rowing at the rear. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)