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Quakers -- China

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

William W. Cadbury and Catharine J. Cadbury collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1192
Abstract

The principal creators in the collection are Quakers William Warder Cadbury (1877-1959) and Catharine Jones Cadbury (1884-1970) who spent most of their lives in China. William Warder Cadbury came to China as a medical missionary in 1909.

Dates: 1893-1967

William Warder Cadbury papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1160
Abstract

The papers of William Warder Cadbury, who was a Quaker medical missionary in China during the first half of the 20th century.

Dates: 1877-1959

Friends' Opportunity in the Orient

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-036
Abstract

Friends Opportunity in the Orient was an unofficial Hicksite organization which sponsored a Quaker teacher in Canton, China, in the 1920s. The collection contains primarily correspondence with Margaret Hallowell Riggs, who was sponsored to teach at Canton Christian College and Canton Hospital.

Dates: 1923-1924

J. Lindley Spicer scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-013
Abstract

J. Lindley Spicer's scrapbook is largely comprised of photos and printed images of Quakers, meeting houses, meetings for worship, and Quaker missions in Mexico, Africa, Palestine, and China. The volume also includes a number of clipped newspaper articles on various Quaker leaders. Inside the scrapbook is an index of photos and clippings.

Dates: Undated.

Vol. 2 Lingnan University photograph album, 1912

 Item — Volume 2
Scope and Content note

This volume includes photos from Lingnan University students, doctors, the hospital floor plan, and Hong Kong, with captions in Chinese.

Dates: 1912

Anna Mary Woodward scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-016
Abstract

Anna Mary Woodward's scrapbook includes clippings related to Quaker history and Quaker meeting houses, clippings from The Friend, post cards of meeting houses, a Quaker calendar for 1911, clippings about Quaker ministers, materials of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the reunion of two historic societies, and information about Friends' missions in Japan, China, and Ramallah.

Dates: 1896-1923