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Shanghai, China
February 19, 1916
My Dear Home Folks,--
Last week passed and I did not get a letter off to you. Yesterday a bunch of letters came forwarded
from Ping Ting. Yours, that is mothers, fathers and Ida�s came telling of the Xmas. I am wondering if
there was another one that has not come yet telling more. Was so glad for those letters.
Mother says she sent the garden seeds. We shall be glad for them, all of us. Please thank Mr. Lininger
for his generosity. I wonder who he is, if they have just come to Waterloo. I will not promise that all
will grow but we will make the effort. Since here we had onions to eat and how I enjoyed them. I think
I will take a few along home.
There are lots of nice things here one can buy but they are so expensive that we can not indulge farely
[sic]. It does me good tho just to see foreign goods thru the shop windows even tho I can not buy.
This week I made some interesting visits. Was to the Door of Hope, really three separate institutions.
The one is for the castaway children and such as are picked up by the public. Poor little things, some
are cast out because they are deficient, some are not wanted, others run away. They have pitiful
faces.
Another of these homes is for rescued girls from the ages from five to fourteen. They had been sold
for immoral purposes. Only the prettiest girls are wanted so we saw some very nice girls there. Several
buildings are put up by the Christian Herald.
Object Description
| Title | Anna V. Blough letter to home folks, Feb. 19, 1916 |
| Creator | Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 |
| Subject |
Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 -- Correspondence Church of the Brethren -- Missions -- China Missions, American -- China -- Shanxi Sheng Missionaries -- China -- Shanxi Sheng |
| Geographic Location | Shanghai (China) |
| Description | Visited the Door of Hope (a refuge for castaway children and girls who have been sold into prostitution). The girls work on crafts to be sold in America. Mrs. Crumpacker has been hospitalized. Anna tells her mother that time goes by rather quickly because she enjoys her work so much. |
| Publisher | Elizabethtown College |
| Repository | Originals in private collection. Digital images on file at the High Library, Special Collections. |
| Date | 1916.02.19 |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | image/tiff |
| Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center/Backstage Library Works in Bethlehem, PA. Archival image is 24 bit color tiffs directly scanned from material at 300 ppi. |
| Identifier | DVD1 1913-1915_0019-0022 |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ ; For all other uses see the Hess Archives Reproduction Policies and Fee Schedule https://www.etown.edu/library/archives/files/reproduction_fee_schedule.pdf |
| Contributing Institution | Elizabethtown College |
| Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
| Contact | Hess Archives and Special Collections: https://www.etown.edu/library/archive |
| Original Format | Correspondence |
Description
| Title | Anna V. Blough letter to home folks, Feb. 19, 1916 |
| Creator | Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 |
| Subject |
Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 -- Correspondence Church of the Brethren -- Missions -- China Missions, American -- China -- Shanxi Sheng Missionaries -- China -- Shanxi Sheng |
| Geographic Location | Shanghai (China) |
| Transcript | Shanghai, China February 19, 1916 My Dear Home Folks,-- Last week passed and I did not get a letter off to you. Yesterday a bunch of letters came forwarded from Ping Ting. Yours, that is mothers, fathers and Ida�s came telling of the Xmas. I am wondering if there was another one that has not come yet telling more. Was so glad for those letters. Mother says she sent the garden seeds. We shall be glad for them, all of us. Please thank Mr. Lininger for his generosity. I wonder who he is, if they have just come to Waterloo. I will not promise that all will grow but we will make the effort. Since here we had onions to eat and how I enjoyed them. I think I will take a few along home. There are lots of nice things here one can buy but they are so expensive that we can not indulge farely [sic]. It does me good tho just to see foreign goods thru the shop windows even tho I can not buy. This week I made some interesting visits. Was to the Door of Hope, really three separate institutions. The one is for the castaway children and such as are picked up by the public. Poor little things, some are cast out because they are deficient, some are not wanted, others run away. They have pitiful faces. Another of these homes is for rescued girls from the ages from five to fourteen. They had been sold for immoral purposes. Only the prettiest girls are wanted so we saw some very nice girls there. Several buildings are put up by the Christian Herald. |
| Publisher | Elizabethtown College |
| Repository | Originals in private collection. Digital images on file at the High Library, Special Collections. |
| Date | Feb. 19, 1916 |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | image/tiff |
| Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center/Backstage Library Works in Bethlehem, PA. Archival image is 24 bit color tiffs directly scanned from material at 300 ppi. |
| Identifier | DVD1 1913-1915_0019-0022 |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ ; For all other uses see the Hess Archives Reproduction Policies and Fee Schedule https://www.etown.edu/library/archives/files/reproduction_fee_schedule.pdf |
| Contributing Institution | Elizabethtown College |
| Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
| Contact | Hess Archives and Special Collections: https://www.etown.edu/library/archive |
| Original Format | Correspondence |
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