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Thomas Scovel was born in Jining, China in 1939. He worked as a professor of linguistics, publishing numerous books and articles on the subject. The collection consists of three photo albums from the 1979 trip that Scovel and his family took to China. Photographs document the classes that Scovel and his wife, Janene, taught in the country as well as some of the people that the family met during the trip.

The Thomas Scovel photo albums consist of three photograph albums from Scovel, documenting his 1979 trip to China. Photographs are of Thomas and his wife, Janene, as they taught children the English language at the Tientsin Foreign Languages Institute. Other photographs show the places that the family visited, like Scovel’s childhood home, as well as the events they attended, and the family’s daily routines. Some of the photographs are accompanied by description of the events from Scovel.