Harry B. Taylor Film Footage: Anking, China
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Taylor, Harry B.
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content: Harry B. Taylor films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (silent, black-and-white reversal; 383 feet, 16mm)
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content: circa 1928-1934
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content: Item 2016.19.1-2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images
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content: Film reels
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content: Label on film reel: Wuhu II
Full film record shot in Wuhu, China, ca. 1928-1929, by Episcopal medical missionary Harry B. Taylor, MD. Film records daily life in an American missionary community (Episcopal Diocese of Wuhu renamed the Diocese of Anking) for promotional and fundraising purposes. Depicted are a range of mission activities, including a medical clinic and a service performed by both Chinese and American clergy. Persons shown include Bishop D. Trumbull Huntington, Bishop Lloyd Craighill, Dr. Harry B. Taylor and Alma Booth Taylor. Footage documents another procession and several congregation group portraits. A significant portion of the reel documents scenes of daily activities in local villages and towns outside the mission, including tending fields, roof repair, gathering brush, and spinning thread. Transportation depicted includes canoes, larger boats, and seaplanes; architecture ranges from thatch to multiple-story stone houses.