Source: Lucy J. Webb Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #363 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Miss Lucy J. Webb, arrived in Shanghai, China, in August of 1922. She worked as a Methodist missionary from 1922 to 1943 and from 1946 to 1951. Her memoir describes the labor done by the many missionaries in Shanghai during [...]
Source: William E. and Marion B. Stewart Papers (Manuscript Collection #707) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: U.S. Navy officer William E. Stewart and his wife Marion visited China and the Philippines in the late 1930s. While there they took many photographs and bought other photographs which they collected into two albums–one for each country. This [...]
Source: Ola V. Lea Papers, (East Carolina Manuscript Collection #351) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Miss Ola Lea, was a native of Virginia and a Baptist missionary to China and Taiwan for thirty-seven years. In 1925 she accepted her assignment of teaching in China until the outbreak of World War II. These are photographs of [...]
Source: James N. Joyner Papers (#429), East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James Noah Joyner was born in 1888. He attended the University of North Carolina, and was later employed by the British-American Tobacco Company (B.A.T.) in China from 1912 to 1935. He worked and traveled the whole time he was in [...]
Source: James N. Joyner Papers (Manuscript Collection #429) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James N. Joyner (1888-1972), attended the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1910. He was employed by the British-American Tobacco Company (B.A.T.) in China from 1912 to 1935, returned to North Carolina to manage the family farm at LaGrange, and died at the [...]
Source: Guide to the George Leland Dyer Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #340 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The Chinese New Year is one of that country’s most important holidays. It begins on the first day of the first lunar month, in late January or early February. In 1903, Commander George Leland Dyer, a U.S. [...]
Source: James N. Joyner Papers, 1923-1954, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #429 Staff Person: Maury York Description: James Noah Joyner (1888-1972), the son of James Yadkin and Effie (Rouse) Joyner, worked for the British-American Tobacco Company in China from 1912 until 1935. Managing sales of cigarettes made by B.A.T., he traveled extensively and lived in [...]
Source: Quentin Gregory Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #200 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This is a photograph of Enfa Zhou, leader of a gang of Manchurian guerilla outlaws, prior to his execution by the Chinese Government, on 8 March 1907 [according to the Chinese lunar calendar]. The captions printed in Chinese characters on the [...]
Source: Beijing Review, Hoover DS 701 P42 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: The Hoover collection receives a number of current periodicals that were especially of interest to Dr. Peele who established the collection. Beijing Review is a popular publication from mainland China that is similar in nature to Soviet Life a Russian magazine that was [...]