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Captured Field Gun

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) The 9.3 c.m. field gun captured by the 122 Division in battle. {Bottom Photo}The Japanese bombed the orthopaedic hospital of the Chinese red Cross though the Red Cross flag was flying.
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Bombing Aftermath

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo)The Japanese bombed Changsha and Hankow (Hankou) daily. (Bottom photo)The Red Cross Medical Corps did its duty.
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Destruction by Japanese

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) All the Japanese left of Chumatien (Zhumadian) on the Peking (Beijing) - Hankow (Hankou) railway was rubble. {Bottom photo} A tunnel is now used as an air-raid dugout.
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American Doctors

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top Photo) Two American doctors in charge of the Swedish-American Bethesda Hospital at Siangyang (Xiangyang), Hupeh (Hubei) Province. {Bottom photo}Doctors and Nurses in air-raid dugouts.
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Japanese Destruction

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top and Bottom photos} This is what the Japanese did to the Swedish-American Bethesda Hospital; at Siangyang (Xiangyang), Hupeh (Hubei) Province.
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Destruction by Japanese

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo)What the Japanese left of the railway town of Chumatien (Zhumadian) on the Peking (Beijing) - Hankow (Hankou) line in Honan (He'nan) Province.{Bottom photo}"Political Soldiers" of the 519th Reg. of the 173rd Division, during a recess between my lectures. Hupeh (Hubei) front 5th War Zone.
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Industrial Cooperative Members

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Members of an industrial cooperative at Laohokuo (Loahekou), Hupeh (Hubei) Province, Central China. {Bottom photo}Dr, Skinsness of Koshan, Honan (He'nan), and his bombed hospital.
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Li Chung-jen (Li Zongren)

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description

General Li Chung-jen (Li Zongren), Commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, told me his opinion of the Japanese -- and of the Americans who gave China's enemy a sword.

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Two Boys

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) I was dreadfully worried about these two little Chinese boys whom I found sliding down the balustrade of the old Confucian Temple in Sian(Xi'an). The balustrade is of stone and the pants of China's children are made open at the back, for use at a moment's notice; and…

(Top photo) I was dreadfully worried about these two little Chinese boys whom I found sliding down the balustrade of the old Confucian Temple in Sian(Xi'an). The balustrade is of stone and the pants of China's children are made open at the back, for use at a moment's notice; and that is why I worried. (Bottom photo) They grind corn on such mills in China's northwest.
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Human Trafficking and Commanders

ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) For sale: the child of famine victims. Price: two sacks of flour; or maybe one; or even a half of one. (Bottom photo) Commander and vice-commander of the 4th Regiment of the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment north of Hankow (Hankou). This Regiment was made up of…

(Top photo) For sale: the child of famine victims. Price: two sacks of flour; or maybe one; or even a half of one. (Bottom photo) Commander and vice-commander of the 4th Regiment of the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment north of Hankow (Hankou). This Regiment was made up of local peasants, fishermen and artisans. Both commanders were sent by the 8th Route Army from the far northwest. I was in the field with this regiment for one month.