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Title
A Chinese graveyard at Pingnan, China, 1927
Creator
Meyer, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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 Chinese graveyard. This is near a large city
bodies were moved here from original graves to make way for expansion. The jars contain bones
in some places, where space is valuable, families take up bones of ancestors and put in jars so as to bury another."
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints 8.3 x 6.2 cm.
Identifier
impa-m5948 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-017-04-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5948
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-017-04-0004.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Death
Religious practice
Distant views
Time Period
1927
Place
China
Pingnam
Source
MKL/China/017/04/0004 [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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