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Title
Fr. Robert J. Cairns, MM, at Shangchuan, China, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
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. R.J. Cairns at Sancian [now Shangchuan]. On a hill behind him is a chapel. There is much vegetation in the area.
Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty-four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. During WWII he was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 8.2 x 6.1 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3672 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-004-07-0007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3672
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-004-07-0007.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Missionary work
General views
Time Period
1928
Place
Sancian
Source
MKL/China/004/07/0007 [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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