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Title
Drilling an artesian well for Sianfu Hospital, Xianfu, Shaanxi, China, ca. 1885
Creator
unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1870/1900
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
Chinese laborers are boring an artesian well at the Sianfu [Xianfu] Hospital. The well that they are drilling is only a few feet away from the hospital building.
The Rev. Dean Goddard was an ABFMS missionary in Ningpo, Che-chiang, China from 1870-1903.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 10.4 x 8.0 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14404 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-081-0001-0041
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14404
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-081-0001-0041.jpg
Subject
Water supply
Hospitals
General views
Time Period
1870/1900
Place
Asia
China
Shaanxi
Xianfu
Source
YDS/RG008/081/0001/0041 [File]
Relation
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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