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Object description
Album 17 contains: views of passengers on a ferryboat crossing the Yangtse River at Chungking; views of the banks of the Yangtse River at Chungking including views of sampans moored on the river; scenes at a tobacco factory in Chungking including: girl workers at work stemming tobacco, packaging and checking finished packets; scenes at a cotton mill in Chungking including: mill girls in the winding room; scenes showing Chinese coolies wearing bark capes to keep out the rain, at work bringing goods across a river by ferryboat; bamboo rafts being floated down a river near Pihu; scenes at a tea party given by General Li Mo'an to General Grimsdale, Head of the British Military Mission, when the latter visited Pihu Military Training Centre, Fukien Province; scenes on a Chinese farm during harvest including: women farmworkers threshing in fields and a farmer with his ox cart; scenes at a U.S. Airfield outside Kunming, including: the 95th Station Hospital, washing hanging out to dry, Chinese women labourers digging slit trenches on the edge of the airfield; scenes showing the Chinese countryside near Chungking; street scenes in Peipei; street scenes in Chungking; scenes at Fuh Tan University, Peipei including: students during lessons, in the library and in the laboratory, portraits of: Dr. Tshang, President of the University, Professor T. K. Chuan, Dr. Liang Tsung-tai, Professor of Foreign Language and of Mr T.W. Hu, one of the students; portraits of Lu Chien, Chinese poet and member of the People's Political Council; scenes at a Nursery School in a disused Chinese Temple showing children having a meal and in the temple grounds; scenes at the Disabled Soldiers Community, Chungking, including: soldiers playing draughts, resting on a balcony, working on the land, making umbrellas and cane chairs as part of the Occupational Therapy treatment, views of the exterior of the centre; scenes at the Chinese College of Physical Training in Peipei during a demonstration of athletics including: the audience watching the demonstration, demonstrations of sword play, wrestling and shadow boxing; portraits of Mrs Francis Pan, wife of the the Director of the China Implements Corporation; scenes showing the Chinese Government in session including: portraits of General Chang Ch'un, Governor of Sichuan Province, Ku Cheng-Kang, Chinese Minister of Social Affairs, General Ku Chen-lun, Governor of Kansu Province, Hsu Shih-ying, Chairman of the National Relief Commission of China; Chu Chia-hua, Minister of Education, Mr Chang Li-sheng, Minister of the Interior; Dr Hsieh Kwan-sen, Minister of Justice.