A Heroine of China Missions: Grace Lilla (Howe) Roberts: Selected Photos
These photos were among many inserted into the master copy of "A Heroine of China Missions: Grace Lilla (Howe) Roberts," some on unnumbered pages.The closest page numbers are given in the captions. Chinese names are as rendered in JHR's original captions.
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Grace Lilla Howe in 1875-1876 (page 4)
The young James Hudson Roberts (page 5)
Union Congregational Church, Marlboro, Mass. (page 7)
The Tung-Chou Pagoda, City Wall and Moat (Page 39)
Ruined Watch Tower on the road between Peking and Kalgan (Page 53)
Main Street, Upper City, Kalgan, near the Custom House (Page 57)
The Roberts Home in Kalgan, 1882-1900 (Page 86)
Grace at home, 1882/1894 (Page 93)
View of Mountains from Caves at Upper End of Glen Gulick, with the Great Wall in the distance (Page 108)
Bell and Belfry in Kalgan, donated in 1885 by the Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, Conn., and destroyed by the Boxers in 1900 (Page 121)
James Hudson Roberts in 1888 (Page 121)
Part of the rough road between Peking and Kalgan (Page 126)
A mountain three miles north-west of Kalgan seen in going to Mongolia (Page 152)
Grace Lilla (Howe) Roberts (Page 208)
Flower Pot Kiln, Kalgan (Page 214)
Chapel and Helpers' Rooms at Kalgan, 1902-1906 (Page 223)
Interior of temporary home at Kalgan, 1903 (Page 226)
Mongol Women with head ornaments and Tents, Mongolia, 1904 (Page 227)
Christian Chapel at Azure Hill (Ch'ing K'o Ta) (Page 235)
Grace Lilla Roberts in 1906 homeward bound on the Japanese steamer America Maru commanded by Capt. Philip Going (Page 241)
T'ou-T'ai Temple in Mongolia, 30 miles north of Kalgan (Page 258)
Grace Lilla and James Hudson Roberts ca. 1917 (Page 273)
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