Add to ORKGGrace W. Thomas Smith is seated at a desk and is instucting a class of ten young Chinese girls. The girls are all wearing traditional Chinese dresses. It appears to be an open-air classroom. A western-style Chinese calendar can be seen on the wall. Written above this photograph in its album: "Mrs. Smith and her class of girls on the home piazza. Five have joined the church."; The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou]. Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien [Fujian], China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United St...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith sits five in from the right in the front row of this group portrait...
The Smiths and a group of Chinese preachers pose for a portrait on a stone wall overlooking a hillsi...
Mary Grace French Dilley sits amongst her Chinese pupils in a "Music Normal Class". All of the stude...
A class of over twenty Chinese school boys stand between two brick columns in front of their school ...
Edward Huntington Smith is standing on the far left. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith, is sitting to ...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith and his wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith, are holding their 16 month old...
The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai an...
A group portrait of the senior class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was composed...
A complete view of the "new" Girls' Boarding School at Ing Tai in 1907. The sits on the side of a ro...
The entering class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class consisted of four young Chines...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith is standing in the center of the second row behind the young girl. ...
A group portrait of the second year class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was com...
A large group of Chinese preachers and colporteurs posing for a group picture in traditional Chinese...
A group portrait of the third year class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was comp...
An exterior shot of a boys' school run by American missionaries at Ing Tai. The building seems to ha...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith sits five in from the right in the front row of this group portrait...
The Smiths and a group of Chinese preachers pose for a portrait on a stone wall overlooking a hillsi...
Mary Grace French Dilley sits amongst her Chinese pupils in a "Music Normal Class". All of the stude...
A class of over twenty Chinese school boys stand between two brick columns in front of their school ...
Edward Huntington Smith is standing on the far left. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith, is sitting to ...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith and his wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith, are holding their 16 month old...
The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai an...
A group portrait of the senior class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was composed...
A complete view of the "new" Girls' Boarding School at Ing Tai in 1907. The sits on the side of a ro...
The entering class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class consisted of four young Chines...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith is standing in the center of the second row behind the young girl. ...
A group portrait of the second year class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was com...
A large group of Chinese preachers and colporteurs posing for a group picture in traditional Chinese...
A group portrait of the third year class at the Boys' Boarding School at Ing Hok. The class was comp...
An exterior shot of a boys' school run by American missionaries at Ing Tai. The building seems to ha...
The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith sits five in from the right in the front row of this group portrait...
The Smiths and a group of Chinese preachers pose for a portrait on a stone wall overlooking a hillsi...
Mary Grace French Dilley sits amongst her Chinese pupils in a "Music Normal Class". All of the stude...