Preparing straw for bedding, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1936

"Comfortable mattresses are filled with rice straw, which must first be dried in the infrequent sunny hours of Chengtu." [now Chengdu] Women work with bundles of straw, making sure they dry properly.; Ginling College shared the campus of West China Union University during the period when its home campus was occupied by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war.

填充稻秆的舒适床垫，其所用稻秆需先在成都（Chengtu，现名成都）难得的晴日中晾晒妥当。女工们持成捆稻秆作业，悉心确保稻秆充分干燥。抗日战争时期，金陵女子大学（Ginling College）校本部遭日军占领期间，曾与华西协和大学（West China Union University）共用校园校舍。