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Government burning of opium, Pootung, China, ca.1921

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Title: Government burning of opium, Pootung, China, ca.1921
Creator: Barbour, Margaret Hart
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1921
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: "When the opium agreement with England came to an end, 10,000,000 of stock was still left in Shanghai. Public opinion compelled the Chinese government to buy it and it was publicly burned for two days. Pootung, Opposite Shanghai" Two large chimneys have smoke pouring out of them.
Margaret Hart Barbour, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary in Shanghai from 1916 to 1923.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 13.9 x 8.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m4841 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-020-0003-0042
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4841
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-020-0003-0042.jpg
Subject: Narcotic drugs
General views
Time Period: circa 1921
Place: Asia
China
Source: YDS/RG008/020/0003/0042 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Margaret Hart Barbour Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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