Japanese prison camp drawing
Dublin Core
Title
Japanese prison camp drawing
Subject
Missions -- China
Missionaries, American
Concentration camps -- China
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
China -- History -- 1937-1945
Shanghai (China) -- History
Missionaries, American
Concentration camps -- China
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
China -- History -- 1937-1945
Shanghai (China) -- History
Description
A detailed hand-colored ink sketch of the Japanese prison compound where Lois Anna Ely was imprisoned for 8 months. This sketch comprises 2 pages in one of Ely's scrapbooks.
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 8 months. 1,050 prisoners from Great Britain, United States, and Holland were held in the internment camp, a plot of 12 acres known as the Chapei Civil Assembly Center. Ms. Ely lost 25 pounds while in captivity at the camp. The ordeal finally concluded in 1943, when the hostages were brought home on the SS Gripsholm, as part of a Swedish prisoner exchange. Ms. Ely died in 1972 at 83 years old.
The bulk of the Lois Ely collection contains scrapbooks that document her time in the Japanese internment camp. Included are numerous letters from loved ones, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral materials, such as menus from the ship while she was headed home, postcards of sites visited, cloth samples, and identification cards. One of the scrapbooks features a detailed hand colored ink sketch of the compound where she was imprisoned.
Source: American Missionaries in China finding aid - https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1489q3sk/dsc/#Series3
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 8 months. 1,050 prisoners from Great Britain, United States, and Holland were held in the internment camp, a plot of 12 acres known as the Chapei Civil Assembly Center. Ms. Ely lost 25 pounds while in captivity at the camp. The ordeal finally concluded in 1943, when the hostages were brought home on the SS Gripsholm, as part of a Swedish prisoner exchange. Ms. Ely died in 1972 at 83 years old.
The bulk of the Lois Ely collection contains scrapbooks that document her time in the Japanese internment camp. Included are numerous letters from loved ones, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral materials, such as menus from the ship while she was headed home, postcards of sites visited, cloth samples, and identification cards. One of the scrapbooks features a detailed hand colored ink sketch of the compound where she was imprisoned.
Source: American Missionaries in China finding aid - https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1489q3sk/dsc/#Series3
Creator
Lois Anna Ely
Source
"Scrapbook, includes articles by Lois Ely; postcards; various identifications cards, passes, and certificates; letters; sketch of interment camp; telegrams 1937-1949." American Missionaries and Educators in China Collection (H.1971.1), Box 2, pages 41-42, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California
Date
1943
Contributor
Lisa Crane
Rights
Materials used in connection with the course may be subject to copyright protection.
Relation
Guide to the American Missionaries and Educators in China Collection: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1489q3sk/
Format
1 physical resource (2 pages): illustrations
Language
English
Type
Drawings
Manuscript maps
Pictorial maps
Manuscript maps
Pictorial maps
Identifier
Special Collections collection number: H.1971.1
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Drawing
Scrapbook pages
Scrapbook pages
Citation
Lois Anna Ely, “Japanese prison camp drawing,” The Claremont Colleges Library Special Collections Online Repository, accessed April 27, 2024, https://tcclsc.omeka.net/items/show/75.