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Children at the Yonabaru Orphanage Bow their Heads in Prayer, Yonabaru, Japan, 1953

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Title: Children at the Yonabaru Orphanage Bow their Heads in Prayer, Yonabaru, Japan, 1953
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
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Special Collections and Archives, Brown Library, Abilene Christian University, Box 29208, Abilene, TX 79699-9208; 325-674-2348
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Description: "Orphan's Home Opening
Children of the Yonabaru Orphanage bow their heads in prayer during the dedication ceremonies of their new home November 21 at Yonabaru village, overlooking beautiful Buckner Bay on Okinawa. The dedication officially opened the island's second orphan's home." The Yonabaru Orphanage was started by missionaries from the United Methodist Church in Post-War Okinawa.
Type: image
Format: photographic print, 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: IMPA-ACU-BH-1-15-001.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-89938
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMPA-ACU-BH-1-15-001.jpg
Subject: Abandoned children
Religious practices
Group portraits
Time Period: 1953
Place: Asia
Japan
Okinawa
Yonabaru
Source: ACU/BH/1/15/001 [File]
Relation: Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
Bob Hunter Collection, Center for Restoration Studies
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 1899-1969

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