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Title
Armed man stands guard outside a marriage ceremony, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1946
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
"Armed guard stands by while prayer leader and high priest perform marriage ceremony, Quintana Roo." In this photograph a man holding a gun over his right shoulder leans against a whitewashed wall inside a thatched roof hut. Foliage adorns the doorway into the room where the ceremony is taking place. A man wearing a white shirt can be seen kneeling just inside the doorway.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
9 x 6 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64416 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Mexico-Scenes-007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64416
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Mexico-Scenes-007.jpg
Subject
Marriage
Buildings
General views
Time Period
circa 1946
Place
North and Central America
Quintana Roo
nation: Mexico
Source
MFB/Mexico/Scenes/007 [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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