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- Creators: Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
- Creators: Young, Joe, 1889-1939
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) The Red cavalry practices maneuvers against air attacks. With the sound of an airplane, they drop to the earth and lie motionless, from the air appearing like piled up stones. (Bottom photo) A valley, Machiachung, in the Ta Hung range in Central Hupeh (Hubei). Scene of a 22-hour battle between a Japanese column and the New 4th Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) These supplies are all the medical supplies in an Army receiving station in Hankow(Hankou) where there are temporary beds for 500 wounded. The supplies are the most meager. Behind the table are young army dressers. (Bottom photo)Inside the Clinic and Hospital of the Convent of Canossian Sisters(Italian Catholic) at Nanyang, Honan (Henan). They care for an air raid victim.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1928 to 1940
Description(Top photo)A potter makes wine jars for sale. (Bottom photo)Chinese soldiers who today police Hopei (Hebei) Province, north China; soldiers of General Sun Cheh-Yuan.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo)Kwangsi (Guangxi) troops in barracks roll call, singing.(N. Hupeh front) (North Hubei front) (Bottom photo) 29 G A. escort, Ta Hung Shan(Taihang Mountain).
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo)It was a bloody era in which Chinese workers, peasants and Communists were openly beheaded on the public streets. (Bottom photo) Left to Right: Political Director of New Fourth Army Storm Guerrilla Detachment; Chen Ta-ji, a woman commander; Li Hsien-nien (Li Xiannian), commander of the Guerrilla Detachment.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionSign: In memory of April, support the Red Army of Workers and Peasants
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Kuominchun (Guominjun) troops in Honan (Henan) (Bottom photo) War on the plains of Honan (Henan), the fields of the peasants are dug up and made into trenches.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description
(Top photo) The communist guerrillas organized villages in the rear of the Japanese during the war, held lectures for weeks on methods of democracy, then the people held their first democratic elections for village and own administrators. (Bottom photo) First democratic elections in a guerrilla territory recovered from the Japanese in Central China. People were given "ballot papers" red pieces of paper meaning "yes" green meaning "no". The names of the candidates were then read out and the "ballot box", a basket, held up to receive the votes.
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
Description(Top photo) Pinghau Railway workers who use rails of destroyed Pinghau line to make swords. (Bottom photo) A unit of the New 4th Army came to a mass meeting to welcome us, near Nanking (Nanjing).
ContributorsSmedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Author)
Created1937 to 1940
DescriptionA unit of the New 4th Army came to a mass meeting to welcome us, near Nanking (Nanjing). (bottom photo)