Coloured poster with black border entitled "Ladder to Heaven", showing people climbing ladders that lead nowhere, juxtaposed with a ladder leading to heaven, backed by a large red cross. Missionary propaganda of the Religious Tract Society in Hankow. Donor said this poster was on the wall of the mission where Ms Wilson worked.
Collected by the donor's aunt, Hilda Wilson, who was a missionary, China Inland Mission, in Szechwan from the 1930s until 1947.
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