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Title: The deserted village at Dongzhen, China, 1937
Creator: McGinn, Fr. Joe
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937-10
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 the deserted village of Dongzhen as seen through a double arched entrance way made of brick. In side the entrance are rows of connected shelters with no inhabitants. Two ducks in the shadows are the only sign of life here.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 20.4 x 13.3 cm.
Identifier: impa-m4113 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-006-10-0001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4113
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-006-10-0001.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Urban areas
Housing
General views
Time Period: 1937-10
Place: China
Dongzhen
Source: MKL/China/006/10/0001 [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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