Elsie Lee Soong with bundles of medical supplies, Shanghai
Collection
Identifier
Ro-n1043
Copyright
© 2012 Mei-Fei Elrick and Tess Johnston
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ro-n1043. Photograph taken outside the Canidrome. Elsie Lee Soong was born in Oregon, USA. This photograph was published in an unidentified newspaper (probably a Shanghai daily) with the caption: “Here is a bit of feminine charm thrown in with medical supplies and bundles of bandages for the wounded. Mrs. Elsie Lee Soong, in riding togs, is shown shortly before she left with two truck loads of supplies for Soochow late Friday afternoon. Mme. H.H. Kung’s organization contributed three fourths of the consignment and the Shanghai Emergency Relief Society and the Chinese Women’s Club contributed the balance.” Source: the newspaper clipping is in a scrap book about the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, in the Randall Gould Papers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The scrap book is in Box 9 of this collection. See also an article in 'The Argus' (17 February 1938): http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11149506. See Ro-n0045, Ro-n1044, Ro-n1045, Ro-s099.
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Location
Estimated Date
1937
Photographer
Material
Negative
Media
Black and white photograph
