First and only edition. Oblong 8vo. Original printed wrappers with a tipped-in photographic plate on recto and verso. Some light creasing and marginal water-staining. 18pp. Shanghai, The Methodist Publishing House, n.d. [but ca, 1900.
The original Soochow University was founded by Methodist missionaries in Suzhou in 1900 as a merger of three existing institutions: the Buffington Institute and the Kung Hang School and the Anglo-Chinese College in Shanghai. In 1901, the university registered in the state of Tennessee in the United States under the name Central University in China. The first president was David Lawrence Anderson. The album shows the main buildings on the campus as well as classrooms and living quarters. Unrecorded.
