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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) The stretcher bearers halted at villages to give the wounded water.(Bottom photo) Civilian stretcher bearers on the Central China front.
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
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Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railway to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a

Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railway to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a group of 60 railway workers who banded together to form a cooperative. They use blacksmith forges and bellows to melt and weld the steel rails. then hammer them into swords for use against the enemy.
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo and Bottom photo) Railway Workers on the old Peking-Hankow (Beijing-Hankou) Railway tore up the rails and founded a small foundry in Chumatien (Zhumadian), Honan (Henan) where they turned rails into big swords for the armed forces. (2 views)
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) a carrier (Middle photo) army marching on a snow mountain (Bottom photo) men working in a factory
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Soldiers taking a class (Middle photo) Soldiers walking in a line (Bottom left photo) villagers (Bottom right photo) a carrier with firewood
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Workers (Bottom photo) Soldiers carrying machine guns
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Villagers (duplicated) (Bottom photo) Workers repairing trucks
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) A district Self-Defense Corps of civilians, some in uniform, some not, in central China, ten miles from a Japanese garrisoned town. (Bottom photo) A New 4th Army man in ambush waiting for the Japanese.
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ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionThe railway workers of the destroyed town of Chumatien (Zhumadian) in Honan (Henan) took the steel rails and spans and beat them into big swords for the armies of liberation.