Photograph of "Alley," friend of Ida Pruitt [manuscript], n.d.

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Photograph of "Alley," friend of Ida Pruitt [manuscript], n.d.

Black and white photo showing a friend of Ida Pruitt, of the Rockefeller Foundation in China. The friend pictured, Rewi Alley, organized the first communes in China.

1 photo. : gelatin silver; 17 x 12cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7935485

University of Virginia. Library

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Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987

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Pruitt, Ida

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Writer, educator, and social worker Ida Pruitt was born in China on December 2, 1888, the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries Cicero Washington and Anna Seward Pruitt. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung province. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909), received a B.S. from Columbia University Teachers' College (1910) and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia. Pruitt returned to China as teacher and principal of ...