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Scenes from period when roads in Nanjing were rebuilt prior to state funeral of Sun Yat-sen; 20,000-40,000 houses in the path of new roads were destroyed or desconstructed by their owners; Sun Yat-sen funeral procession, May 1928; construction of new gate to city, 1931; fire near mission compound; construction on new building for women's work, 1932

"Christmas service at Church of the Triumphant Way, Hsiakwan, Nanking" and festivities following; Chinese clergy and their families; "Sports Day at Tao Sheng School, 1930";"Annual Easter Service at Church Cemetery near Nanking, 1929"; "Neighborhood children play in mission grounds... 1928 and 1929"; "Morning chapel, Tao Sheng School... Bishop Graves' visit for confirmation, 1931"

Scenes of refugees on Ginling College campus, including Minnie Vautrin and Ernest Forster.

"Kusatsu, the Famous Hot Sulphur Springs of Japan..."; Church, dispensary, home of missionary Miss Cornwall-Legh, leper village and leprosy patients, children playing, "church band" that plays music in streets with deacon preaching to non-Christians

Scenes at University of Nanking in 1928 following takeover of Nankjing by Chinese Nationalist troops; destruction of faculty residences; Miss Moffett, Treasurer of Presbyterian Mission in Nanking who was wounded by soldiers; Presbyterian and Quaker Mission buildings damaged by soldiers, St. Paul's Church occupied by Kuomingtang as their political headquarters

Students on University of Nanking campus; group with Red Cross armbands; groups of children walking downn street, with older woman missionary "Deaconess Henderson" (probably Maud Truxton Henderson)

Consecration of Bishop Ding, Assistant Bishop of Fujian (Fukien), in Shanghai, November 1927, showing theological students and professors and Episcopal missionaries; General Synod of 1928, scenes at St. John's University

Kindergarten and church in Maebashi, Japan; Japanese individuals and missionaries; street scenes

"Easter Services at St. John's University, Shanghai in 1927 when all missionaries had been withdrawn from the interior by foreign Consuls"; "Clergy and others coming from meeting in interest of evangelistic work, November, 1927"; "Conference on Educational Work, St. John's University, November 1927"

Flood in Nanjing, September 1931; scenes in Hsiakwan district; "Graduation exercises for Short Term School for teaching women...Nanking, May 1931"; Construction at St. Paul's Church, Nanking; "Scenes in Yangchow, 1928..."; "Funeral of Commissioner of Posts, Hsiakwan, July, 1930..." (elaborate funeral procession);"Chapei, the part of Shanghai destroyed in fighting between Chinese and Japanese, February 1932" (destruction of city, Japanese soldiers)