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Title: Casting a concrete cornice, Yenching University, Beijing, China, 1923
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
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: "Casting concrete cornice - Sage Building Peking University China" A worker stands next to a pile of bricks, under a wooden scaffolding, in front of a partially completed brick wall. Construction materials lie scattered about.
Peking University changed its name to Yenching University after 1912 when the Chinese government university was named Peking University. It was later known as Yanjing da xue.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 9 x 14.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m9765 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG11-420-5904-6315l
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9765
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG11-420-5904-6315l.jpg
Subject: Academic buildings
Construction engineering
Yanjing da xue
General views
Time Period: 1923
Place: Asia
China
Peking
Source: YDS/RG11/420/5904/6315l [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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