The collection consists of Christian posters used for evangelistic work in China the 1930s and '40s. The posters present graphically simple messages about salvation and the Christian life. All, except for one, are all or in part in Chinese. Some also have Arabic texts and there is one poster in Thai. The bulk of the posters were printed by the Religious Tract Society of Hankow, but there were many by other publishers as well. The posters were collected by Albert Grant, a Canadian missionary with the China Inland Mission, who used them in his evangelistic work in Hebei Province prior to World War II, and in Yunnan in the post-war years. He gave them to Dr. Alyvn Austin to assist him in the preparation of his 1986 book, Saving China: Canadian Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1888-1959.