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Title: A child who collects cigarette tins at Gaozhou, China, 1936
Creator: Fitzgerald, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936-12
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 a "little Miss who stops at the Mission on her way home from school to ask for cigarette tins. The tins are highly prized and are used for 'putting in things.' I can never find out what things are put into the tins though. Just trinkets."
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 13.4 x 8.3 cm.
Identifier: impa-m6134 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-019-02-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6134
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-019-02-0006.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Poverty
Children
Portraits
Time Period: 1936-12
Place: China
Kochow
Source: MKL/China/019/02/0006 [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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