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- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945-Economic aspects
- All Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Economic aspects--China
- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo and Bottom photo) The Industrial Cooperative connected with the Orthopedic Hospital of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps in Kweiyang (Guiyang) teach trades to the maimed. (2 views)
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
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.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Children rescued from the famine territory, spinning in a mission compound, earning their food. (Bottom photo)A red cavalryman throwing his horse to the earth when a signal of an approaching airplane is given.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description{Top photo}The Orthopaedic Center of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Unit at Keiyang (Guiyang), Kweichow (Guizhou) Province - making automobile spare parts that last for sometime but not good enough. (Bottom photo) Two mechanics - one woman in the Red Cross Medical Corps shops- a demonstration truck to teach drivers.
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.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Contributor)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
Disabled, crippled Chinese soldiers, from cooperatives of various kinds. These are trainees as tailors and have their own cooperative tailoring establishment. The earn their living and make uniforms for the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps and the Army. These men own and manage their own cooperative.
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 that is why I worried.
(Bottom photo) They grind corn on such mills in China's northwest.
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 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.