McBlain Books

Azaleas and Baptist Missionaries in China. [our title]

[Photo Album]

A small, slightly oblong (15 x 13cm.) and probably homemade, album containing only six pages. Six color photos (9 x 11cm.) inserted one to a page in corner slits. Four of the photos are of a woman holding or admiring a mass of azaleas. A fifth is of a man and azaleas. The sixth is of a woman seated in a small wagon while another, similarly-attired woman pretends to pull her. Four duplicate photos laid in at the end. A note on page 492 of The Missionary Herald for 1914 mentions Rev. Charles S. Keen of the East China Baptist Association as recently appointed to head the Missionary Department at the University of Nanking. Other research indicates that Charles had married Marian L. Fischer in 1905 and that after he died of typhoid fever in 1923, she continued missionary efforts in China until 1927. We assume that it is Rev. Keen and his wife Marian who are holding the flowers. Definitely a missionary oddity. Very Good. Item #85793

Price: $175.00