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Large group of people waiting for an outdoor baptism to begin, Shantou, Guangdong, China, May 1922

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Title: Large group of people waiting for an outdoor baptism to begin, Shantou, Guangdong, China, May 1922
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1922
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: "This was taken before the service when people were sitting decorously in the seats provided in proper rows. As the baptism begins they always crowd closer to see. May 1922" People are gathered and sitting on benches waiting for an outdoor baptism to begin.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 6.5 x 10.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m65483 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG149-008-0068-0002
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65483
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG149-008-0068-0002.jpg
Subject: Religious practice
Clergy
General views
Time Period: 1922
Place: Kwangtung
China
Relation: Abbie G. Sanderson Papers
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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