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This flyer shows either Chinese or Japanese text, with pencil translations next to some of the characters, alongside five images. The images show Japanese soldiers and marines in various situations that include:
1. Soldiers pose and salute with what…

Sr. M. John and Sr. Mary Annunciata, one of them showing an open book to a woman beside her, are teaching Doctrine to some elderly women--both insiders of the Women's Compound and outsiders to the compound.

Sr. Virginia holds a small, bundled up newborn infant in her hands. A building looms over them in the background.

Writing on the back of the photo says: "This is one of the little babies picked up in the street. It's about a week or ten days old…

Four Chinese Sisters stand together as Novices, wearing the Spanish Community veil. From left to right is Sr. M. Annunciata, Sr. M. Peter, Sr. M. John, and Sr. M. Cecilia.

A group of young, orphaned Chinese girls hold dolls just given to them from Sr. Leontine.

Two Sisters supervise the compound's children as they eat from their bowls of rice with chopsticks.

Writing on the back of the photo says: "Here are some of my darlings! Would you like to sit down and enjoy the rice & chopsticks with them? You…

The front entrance to the Sisters' convent in their Kienow mission.

People, including clergy members, inspect the aftermath of damaged buildings hit by bombs from an air strike.

A Sister and others working in the Holy Rosary Dispensary, also known as the Bao Chiao Tau Dispensary.

A newspaper article about the second group of Dominican Sisters (Sr. Rose Agnes), native Chinese Sisters (Srs. Mary John and Annunciata), and Chinese girls (Lucy Fang and Rose Chen) that escaped the Dominican mission in Kienow, China due to the…