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Title: Monks in ceremonial robes, China, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
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: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: Serie IIIa ̶ Cina ̶ 16. Bonzi in abiti da cerimonie.” Two monks are shown wearing ornate ceremonial robes as they walk along a busy street. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: L’Istituto delle Missioni Estere di Milano, promuove la propagazione della Fede e della Civiltà in sette vaste Missioni dell’ India e della Cina ̶ Sede generale: Milano ̶ Via Monte Rosa 71.” There is no handwriting on the back.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier: IMP-YDS-RG101-041-0000-0064.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81329
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-041-0000-0064.jpg
Subject: Buddhism
Customs and traditions
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Asia
China
Source: IMP/YDS/RG101/041/0000/0064 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
image/tiff

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