Street scene in Quanzhou, China with female missionary in palanquin, ca. 1894

Lilias Graham in palanquin with fellow missionary, bearers and servants carrying hamper and umbrella in a street near the English Presbyterian Mission in Quanzhou. The journey from Xiamen to Quanzhou took two days. The first day would be by boat to An-hai followed by a second in a palanquin or litter.; Album containing approximately 170 photographs and 55 coloured drawings belonging to Lilias Graham, of the Womens' Missionary Association, English Presbyterian Mission in China. Lilias Graham was an honorary missionary with the WMA from 1888 to 1906 when ill-health forced her to retire. She herself funded much of the WMA work in Chuan-Chow [Quanzhou], Fujian Province