Guide to the Alice M. Carpenter Papers
Open for research.
Alice Margaret Carpenter was appointed to the PCUSA's South China Mission in 1922. Following two years of language study, she served as a teacher at the Ming Sum School for the Blind from 1924-1937. She taught English in Canton at the Pooi Ying Middle School and the Turner Training School of Nursing from 1925-1937 and 1938-1941 respectively. In 1943, she was evacuated from Canton and returned to the United States where she resigned from missionary service in 1945.
Alice M. Carpenter's papers consist of correspondence, photographs and other miscellaneous items which primarily document her missionary service in China from 1922 through the early 1940s, though some later materials are also included. Her correspondence from the late 1930s is particularly rich in describing the war in China, notably the bombing of Canton, from 1937 until her evacuation in 1943.
SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1922-1943
Consists of outgoing personal correspondence to family member, arranged by year.
SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1900S-1980S
Includes both personal photographs and miscellaneous photographs that reflect her missionary service as well as life in China in general during the 1920s- early 1940s.
SERIES III: MISCELLANY, 1930S-1980S
Includes clippings and materials on the war in China and on the Ming Sum School for the Blind.
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to RG 206 | |
| SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1922-1943 | |||
| 1 | 2 | 1922-1925 | |
| 1 | 3 | 1937-1943 | |
| 1 | 4 | 1938-1939 | |
| 1 | 5 | 1942-1943 | |
| SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1900s-1980s | |||
| 1 | 6-7 | Personal | |
| 1 | 8-13 | China | |
| SERIES III: MISCELLANY, 1930s-1980s | |||
| 1 | 14 | Bombing of China, 1930s | |
| 1 | 15 | Ming Sum School for the Blind, 1930s-1940s | |
| 1 | 16 | Clippings, 1930s-1980s |