Maps and Posters

Highlights include:

Large hand-painted red scroll bidding farewell to a Mr. Shen from an English-American missionary organization. Written in traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Scroll written on identical paper from the year 1915. Related to preaching and education efforts on the part of missionaries. Also in traditional calligraphy.

Map of areas bombed in Canton by the Japanese

Map of areas that suffered fire damage Oct.-November 1938

Large propaganda poster.“ Continue to Work Together” pictures English imperialists and Japanese murdering wounded Chinese. Issued by Chinese workers association in 1907.

Anti-communist poster reading “The Communist Party is New Imperialism’s Hunting Dog”

Anti-British propaganda poster reading “The British imperialists are demons who will slaughter the human race.”Second text on a bloody Chinese body reads, “ Chinese people have been captured.”

Second poster reading “The Communist Party is New Imperialism’s Hunting Dog.”Issued by ROC (Republic of China) government. Blue and yellow with pictures of Japanese Zeros.

1916 Poster discussing the importance of the role of Chinese workers in defeating imperialism. Four panels in vivid color.

Series of similar ROC anti-Communist anti-imperialism posters in blue and green.

Four-panel poster—bottom left lampoons the government of Wu Mowei “overthrowing imperialism’s tricks” by giving England, America, and Japan concessions, top left shows Indian Sepoys commanded by a British officer firing on Chinese crowd, top right shows CCP holding back people who want to fight imperialism and warlordism, and bottom right shows ROC soldiers fighting off soldiers from Wu Mowei’s army. 1927

Red colored poster discussing economic hardships, poster satirizing General Zhang Zuolin?, and assorted posters

Poster for Christian colony for people with leprosy, Hay Ling Chau - isle of happy healing

Assorted ROC posters

Poster depicting Chinese Nationalists versus Communists. [1940s]

Poster depicting Japanese invasion of China. [1930s]

Poster given to CJC by the Dunbar Community thanking her for her hospitality, friendship, and dedication to promoting good human relations, presented at the seventh annual picnic of the Dunbar Home and School Association and the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. 1969 6/21