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Title
Fr. Downs stands amidst wreckage at Shantou, China, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938-10
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 Fr. Downs "standing on the ground floor of the house next door to him after a bombing. The occupant of this house had sent his family away and he remained at home only at night."
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, 13.6 x 9.1 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3856 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-005-05-0007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3856
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-005-05-0007.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
War
General views
Time Period
1938-10
Place
China
Swatow
Source
MKL/China/005/05/0007 [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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