Harry B. Taylor Film Footage: Anking, China
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Taylor, Harry B.
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content: Harry B. Taylor films
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content: 1 Film reel (silent, black-and-white reversal; 403 feet, 16mm)
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content: circa 1928-1934
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content: Item 2016.19.1-1
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 I
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 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 a procession and service; the congregation greeting each other and posing for portraits; a hospital staffed by nurses and nuns; a mission childcare program; and a meeting. Some footage documents life outside of the mission property, in particular a record of the Yangtse flooding and the resulting temporary homes erected in the community, as well as brief footage of agricultural and harvesting activities.