Francis E. Stafford (born February 3, 1884 – 1938) moved to Shanghai in 1909 where he worked for Commercial Press for six years. Stafford is best known for his photography of the Chinese Revolution (1911), also known as the Xinhai Revolution, in which the last dynasty was overthrown. He also took hundreds of important images of Chinese social life during the period from 1909 to 1915. Background Francis Eugene (Frank) Stafford spent his early years in Boulder, Colorado, where his father served as City Clerk. At age 17, in 1901 Francis moved to Oakland, California where he obtained a job at the Pacific Press Publishing Association. He was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Jessen in November 1905. Their son, Clarence Stafford was born in October 1906 in Mountain View, California. While working he became an expert in photoengraving and learned photography. This helped him find a job in Shanghai, under a year's contract with the Commercial Press, to install a photoengraving plant, and teach their workman to run it, where he moved with his family in 1909. Frank Stafford was among the first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to acquire a knowledge of the Shanghai dialect. In 1911 he became director of the Kiangsu Church Mission. Miss Frances Stafford their daughter was born in 1912. In 1915, due to health problems, he returned to the United States, living in Honolulu, HI most of his remaining life. Francis Stafford died on February 1, 1938, and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA. Shanghai photographer and lithographer Stafford was commissioned by Commercial Press of Shanghai to take pictures for the books being published at that time, as many of his photos appear in books published at that time by Commercial Press. One of these books was a textbook titled Geography of China and was published in 1911, which contained about 25 of his photos. Another book, titled China's Revolution: 1911-1912 by Edwin Dingle, contains many of Stafford's photographs of soldiers fighting on both sides of the famous 1911 Wuchange Uprising in the Wuhan area of China. A Commercial Press handbook states the Francis Stafford brought color printing technology to China. Hawaii – lithographer The Stafford family arrived in Hawaii in June 1915. Frank worked for the Paradise of the Pacific (monthly magazine) in Honolulu from 1917 thru 1922 as a photo engraver. He would transform pictures into beautiful full-color pages. Paradise