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Title
Fr. Downs and Fr. Lim in Meixien, China, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
This is a photograph of Fr. Downs [left] and Fr. Lim [right] standing in front of the seminary.
Born in Pennsylvania, Fr. Downs came to Maryknoll in 1920 after being ordained in the Erie Diocese in 1916. He took a perpetual oath to Maryknoll in 1930. He was assigned to Kaying in 1925 and became Society Superior there in 1930. In 1939 he was assigned to teach the Hakka dialect in Hong Kong. He spent many years in Hong Kong and the South China region before returning to the United States in 1969.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 6.3 x 8.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3847 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-005-04-0009
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3847
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-005-04-0009.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Religious buildings
Exterior views
Time Period
1929
Place
China
Meixien
Source
MKL/China/005/04/0009 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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