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Title: View of City, China, ca. 1905-1914
Creator: Somerville, Charles
Contributor: Photo Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy, Tientsin, China
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905/1914
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: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
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Description: Black and white lantern slide showing an aerial view of rooftops in a Chinese city, possibly Hankow (Hankou), where Charles Somerville worked in the London Missionary Society hospital. A river (the Yangtze - or Changjiang) can be seen in the background of the image. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
Format: lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSWC47-LS1-50.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78429
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSWC47-LS1-50.jpg
Subject: Aerial photographs
Cities and towns--China
Aerial photography
Urban environment
Aerial views
Time Period: 1905/1914
Place: Asia
China
Hubei
Wuhan
cities
Source: CSWC47/LS1/50 [File]
Relation: Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection; Charles Somerville (CSWC47-LS1)
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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