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Title
Mosque protected by small fort, Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu, China, 1936
Creator
Pickens, Claude L
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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
In bandit-ridden areas the mosque must protect itself. This is one outside the South Gate of Yu Wang, Ningsia, not only had this small fort but also local Moslem militia to protect it. During the summer and fall of 1936 the Communist held the city
one wonders what happened to the mosque.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 8 x 11.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2994 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0002-0026
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2994
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0002-0026.jpg
Subject
Moslems
Mosques
General views
Time Period
1936
Place
China
Ningsia
Source
YDS/RG008/333/0002/0026 [File]
Relation
Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Papers; 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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