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Male doll with wood body, dressed in native Chinese costume, silver and black silk brocade garment, trimmed with gold, with a mandarin collar. This doll came from the Loretto Sisters in China.

Sewing box, black wood, lacquered cover with scene of Chinese countryside and a man pulling a rickshaw. Interior is lined in blue fabric; the inside cover has an inset mirror and is painted with another country scene with a mountain in the…

Carved white ivory elephant, from China, on painted black wood base. This belonged to Mother Olivette Norton. During her tenure as Superior General, the Sisters of Loretto opened a second mission in China, in 1933, in Shanghai.

Brown leather suitcase with darker brown line decoration, leather handle, and metal clasps and key; interior lined with blue fabric. It was carried to and from China 1923-1933. Sisters of Loretto were in Shanghai and Hanyang, China, first arriving in…

Pair of stockings, brown wool, worn in China as protection from cold, etc.

Gray habit (a), 2 capes, one pair of sleeves (b), one white day cap (c) of Sr. Doloretta Marie O’Connor, who wore these when she was missioned in China.

Three fabric bags for shipping things from China to the Motherhouse.a) Addressed from "SMP" in Hanyang to the Mother General at Loretto Motherhouse.b) Addressed to "Mother M. Francisca" at the Loretto Motherhouse, August 1937.c) Addressed to the…

“Catalogue for St. Columban’s Embroidery School,” HanYang, Hupeh, China. The first mission of Loretto in China was in the interior city of HanYang where the Sisters took over an embroidery school established by the Columban Missionary Society.

Silk embroidery on black background depicting Fraulein, the Sisters’ dog in China. A photograph framed with the piece is inscribed: “Fraulein 1929, the sisters’ dog at HanYang, aged 5 months. A later photo of him served as a model for the…

Silk embroidery of a fall landscape scene of a creek in a forest. Made in China with a needle and silk thread by girls of the school, around 1930.