Smedley collection
During the 1930s Agnes Smedley was a foreign correspondent in China's battlefields. Traveling with the 8th Route and New Fourth Armies she documented the Communist Revolution for the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and later the "Manchester Guardian." The following photographs were taken of Agnes Smedley during her coverage of the revolution in China.
Magistrate of Hwangchwan
Agnes Smedley with magistrate of Hwangchwan left, and Major General Uang Chang-ping vice admiral of the 7th army in N. Hupeh Province
1930s
Agnes Smedley Collection
Acc. #93-1116
China's battlefields
"For years I was on the highways and by-ways of China's battlefields. (I am the figure just behind the foremost figure.)"
1930s
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 41
Women's Committee of the 5th War Zone
"Talking with the Women's Committee of the 5th War Zone, Laohokuo."
Standing, Agnes Smedley (3rd from the right).
1930s
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 39
Chinese girl nurses
"I urge Chinese girl nurses of Hong Kong to leave HongKong and go to the front to serve their wounded countrymen."
1930s
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 42
Military group greeting
Agnes Smedley (center) and a military group greeting her with a welcome sign.
1930s
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 42
Chu Teh in Yenan guerilla base
Agnes Smedley (far right) with her friends Mao Tsetung (left) and general Chu Teh in Yenan guerilla base.
1937
Photographer: Helen Foster Snow Magnum
Acc# 93-1116
Ching-li---lisiao Kwei
"Ching-li---lisiao Kwei" - orderly, Yeh Fan Kwei, my translator, Agnes Smedley and Ann Wang" [LilyWu and Anna Wang]
1937
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 42
Photographs and text by Agnes Smedley while she was a foreign correspondent during the Communist Revolution in China
Group of war-orphans
"A group of war-orphans of the communist guerrillas who spent half of their time studying and half writing and presenting small plays and singing patriotic songs for civilians and the troops. The child in the foreground with his head down is the boy I tried to adopt as my son."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
Volume 38 MSS 122
For Sale
"For Sale, the child of Famine victims"
ca 1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 40
Chinese factory workers
"Chinese factory workers have spiritual faces--faces filled with suffering."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 39
Captured Japanese trophies
"Captured Japanese trophies in the New 4th Army Headquarters."
Agnes Smedley was given some of the trophies (to the right).
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 25
Railway men
"Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railways to prevent the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a group of 60 railway workers who banded together to form a cooperative. They use blacksmith forges and bellows to melt and weld the steel rails, then hammer them into swords for use against the enemy."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
Volume 38, MSS 122
Korean volunteers
"Korean volunteers at head table and left; Jap [Japanese] captives on right."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 38
hospital of the New 4th Army
"A hospital of the New 4th Army in an ancestral temple in North Kiangsu Province, North at Shanghai. I spent 8 months with this army in the field and helped care for their wounded."
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 40
Night welcome meeting
"Night welcome meeting. New 4th Storm Guerrilla Detachment in Central China, North HanKou"
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 38
Mass Mobilization Committee of Lihwang
"The dramatic group of the Mass Mobilization Committee of Lihwang, Anhwei, produces the 'Wang Ching-Wei-Hiranuma Pact' anti-traitor drama."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 38
Two Chinese speakers at the 8th route Army
"Two Chinese speakers at the 8th route Army"
ca 1938
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 38
Leaders of Women's National Salvation Association in Central China
"Leaders of Women's National Salvation Association in Central China - in guerrilla territory."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 38