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Title
View of the altar of a church, Japan, ca. 1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 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
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
Photographic postcard of an interior view of a church in Japan. The altar of the church is in the center of the photo. Two steps lead to the platform that the altar sits on. There is a tabernacle in the center of the alter that has three candles on either side of it. There is a painting of Joseph on the right side of the altar and a painting of Mary and baby Jesus on the left. A wood torri is behind the altar.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic postcard : b&w
8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63160 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Postcards-Japan-343
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63160
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Postcards-Japan-343.jpg
Subject
Churches
Altars
Tabernacles
Torii
Interior views
Time Period
circa 1920/1940
Place
Asia
Japan
Source
MFB/Postcards/Japan/343 [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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