Laying the floor for a hospital building, Jinan, Shandong, China, ca.1940

"6-14 Stages in the construction of the new hospital building." "Frame 12 - This represented an exciting day - the pouring of a cement floor, which required a veritable army, all working at once. Do these various construction projects look primitive to the sophisticated eyes of Westerners? The completed building is very satisfying and finished looking, and our American military attaché, appraising these cement floors in the fall of 1937, considered that the inside corridor of our lowest floor was a quite satisfactory shelter from aerial bombs." Several male workers around various edges of the base of the building, laying down and smoothing concrete