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Title
Father William Mulcahy at Rongxian, China, 1935
Creator
Lavin, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued
1935-12-13
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. Mulcahy standing with a group of Christians from the town. Father has a light colored shirt on and he stands with an older woman and children of various ages.
Rev. Mulcahy was born in Framingham, MA. He entered The Venard, Maryknoll's Apostolic College, in 1920, and was ordained in 1929. He was assigned that year to Wuchow. In 1947 he was appointed Maryknoll's procurator in Shanghai. He returned to Wuchow in 1948. In 1951 he became procurator in Hong Kong and was in charge of refugee work there, and later served as local superior. In 1961 he was assigned to Transfiguration Parish in Chinatown, NYC and in 1967 became the curate of the Chinese parish in Chicago.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.9 x 6.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3952 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-005-13-0003
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3952
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-005-13-0003.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Missionary work
Group portraits
Time Period
1935-12-13
Place
China
Rongxian
Source
MKL/China/005/13/0003 [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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