YMCA - Reaching for Gold
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YMCA - Reaching for Gold
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Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.
Just outside the parade assembly ground, the two soap floats and Health department vans used for providing free…
Just outside the parade assembly ground, the two soap floats and Health department vans used for providing free…
Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927,
Another soap advertisement float.
Another soap advertisement float.
Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.
Two Chinese girls on the "throne of soap."
Two Chinese girls on the "throne of soap."
Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.
Advertising soap as a help to achieve cleanliness and prevent cholera. Chinese and foreign companies were extended an…
Advertising soap as a help to achieve cleanliness and prevent cholera. Chinese and foreign companies were extended an…
Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.
The stretchers in turn are followed by coffins.
The stretchers in turn are followed by coffins.
Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.
"The unclean way of living," followed by stretchers.
"The unclean way of living," followed by stretchers.
Health campaign parade
Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.
The banner squad furs the corner. The first banner says, "Joint cholera prevention work for all local inhabitants by the…
The banner squad furs the corner. The first banner says, "Joint cholera prevention work for all local inhabitants by the…
Group of vaccinated patients
Dr. Macklin, who has been a missionary doctor in nanking for 37 years, and a group who have just been vaccinated at the YMCA.
Bible study class
Government Primary School Boys' Club, Bible Class Session, from a photo album by YMCA secretary Philip Gillett. "This class is taught in Chinese by Mr. Wang Ding and myself. Note the the crude desks."
Bible study class
English Bible study class in the office of YMCA secretary Philip Gillett, of advanced students in one of his English classes. "They are a fine group of boys."
Why I Became a Christian: Notes of an Address
Article by Chinese educator, community leader, and YMCA supporter Zhang Boling (Chang Po Ling.)
Annual Report
Report by YMCA secretary C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson on Sherwood Eddy's 1914 evangelical campaign in Beijing
People attending a lecture
Crowds on their way to a lecture by Sherwood Eddy as part of the evangelical campaign organized by YMCA secretary Sherwood Eddy in Beijing in 1914.
![Illustration from "Five Years of Progress: Annual Report of the Young Men's Christian Association of China and Korea, 1907-1912"](https://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/files/square_thumbnails/6552f54efad0ce9d131e28fa27e5dad1.jpg "Illustration from "Five Years of Progress: Annual Report of the Young Men's Christian Association of China and Korea, 1907-1912"")
Photograph of a play
Play given by the Boys' Department Drama Club for Senior members in an open air theater in one of the suburbs of Nanking.
C. H. Robertson
C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson, YMCA secretary in China from 1902 to 1921, demonstrating the gyroscope.
Summer camp poster
Poster for a Christian student summer camp in Hebei province, at the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha, Western Hills, Beiping, June 30 - July 6, 1932
Ping Pong game
Ping pong table in the game room of the Hankow (Hankou) YMCA.
"The above is a picture of the game room and reading room in our Boys Department. each afternoon after school and every evening there are from forty to eighty boys in this room at one…
"The above is a picture of the game room and reading room in our Boys Department. each afternoon after school and every evening there are from forty to eighty boys in this room at one…
Basketball game
Early basketball game on the grounds of Wayland Academy. "One thousand and fifty-five invitations to see the game."
1896 Tientsin YMCA Bulletin
Article from an 1896 issue of "Tientsin YMCA Bulletin," highlighting the introduction to China of basketball, invented by the YMCA just five years earlier in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Zhang Boling and family
Chinese educator, community leader, and YMCA supporter Zhang Boling (Chang Po Ling) and his family.
The Fourth Annual Athletic Contest
Article on the 4th Annual Athletic contest from "Tientsin Young Men," October 1906.
20,000 Spectators at Tientsin Field Meet
Illustration of a Tientsin (Tianjin) YMCA Field Day from the report "Five Years of Progress, 1907-1912"
Illustration, YMCA field day
Illustration from an article describing the Shanghai YMCA field day in 1906.
A Busy Day at the Association Recreation Grounds
Illustration from Shanhai YMCA Department of Physical Education pamphlet, ca. 1913.
Twelfth annual report of Tientsin (Tianjin)
Twelfth annual report of Tientsin (Tianjin) YMCA from "Chinese Young Men," 1907, describing the great interest in sports and athletics.
C. H. Robertson, Zhang Boling and staff
YMCA secretary C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson [3rd from left], who served in China from 1903 to 1931, with Chinese educator, community leader and YMCA supporter Zhang Boling (Chang Po Ling) [3rd from right], and staff.
Wang Cheng T'ing (C. T. Wang)
Wang Cheng T'ing (C. T. Wang), first general secretary of the national Committee of the Chinese YMCA, 1915.
Chinese YMCA secretaries exercising
Chinese YMCA secretaries exercising on the roof of the Beijing YMCA.
Chinese YMCA secretaries exercising
Chinese YMCA secretaries exercising on the roof of the Beijing YMCA.
Faculty School of Physical Education. Winter and Spring Terms, 1918
School of Physical Education faculty, Shanghai, 1918
Another foe of the queue
Photo of the pole vault competition accompanying an article by YMCA physical director Max Exner in "Foreign Mail," March-April 1911:
"For some time there has been a persistent agitation in China in favor of the cutting off of the queue. The sports…
"For some time there has been a persistent agitation in China in favor of the cutting off of the queue. The sports…
Tientsin Young Men
Page from an article describing China's first National Athletic Meet, held in Nanking (Nanjing,) 1910.
First National Athletic Sports
Pamphlet from China's first national Athletic Meet, held in nanking (Nanjing) in 1910.
Photo album page
Photo album page showing scenes from the third Far Eastern Games, held in Tokyo, Japan in 1917.
Program
Souvenir bulletin from the second Far Eastern Games, organized in Shanghai, 1915, and the first international competition to be held in China.
Official Summary
Results from the second Far Eastern Games, held in Shanghai, 1919, printed in a souvenir pamphlet.
Plan showing location of athletic ground, principal hotels and points of interest in Shanghai.
Map of Shanghai showing the location of the competition grounds for the second Far Eastern Games, 1915.
Far Eastern Olympic. Souvenir
Souvenir pamphlet from the second Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in Shanghai, 1915, the first international competition to be held in China.
List of Events Open International Games
Events listing from preliminary announcement of the second Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in 1915, and the first international athletic competition to be held in China (Shanghai.)
Shot put competitor
Shot put competition from the first Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in Manila, Philippines in 1913.
Athletes at the first Far Eastern Games.
Athletes at the first Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in Manila, Philippines, 1913.
Annual Report
Page from an annual report, 1908-1919, by C. H. Robertson, including the three question "slogan" about China's participation in the Olympics. Exactly one hundred years later, these questions are all finally answered.
Preliminary Announcement
Cover of brochure announcing the Shanghai Far Eastern Games, organized in 1915 by the YMCA as the first international athletic competition to be held in China