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Box 2

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Scrapbook Includes articles by Lois Ely; postcards; various identifications cards, passes, and certificates; letters; sketch of interment camp; telegrams, 1937-1949

 Item — Box: 2, Item: 1
Identifier: Series 3
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Lois Anna Ely was born in Missouri on December 29, 1888. She completed her Master of Arts from the College Missions in June 1919, writing the thesis Kwan-Yin Bodhisattva. She was a teacher and church worker for the United Christian Missionary Society in Nanking. In the early 1940s Ms. Ely moved to Shanghai where she did editorial work. While living in Shanghai was taken to the Great China University grounds to captivity and was in a Japanese Prison camp for...
Dates: 1937-1949