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Title
Chinese Sisters taking vows, Jiangmen, China, ca. 1947
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1947
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
Photograph of the Kongmoon Novitiate. The indoor scene in the chapel shows three Sisters taking vows while kneeling in prayer. Maryknoll Sisters, dressed in white habits, look on from a pew on the side. The floor is tile and the windows are leaded glass.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
18.5 x 15 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63078 [Legacy record ID]
MSA-China-06-01-11
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63078
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MSA-China-06-01-11.jpg
Subject
Religious behaviour
Nuns
General views
Time Period
circa 1947
Place
Asia
Canton
China
inhabited places: Jiangmen
Source
MSA/China/06/01/11 [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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