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Title: Boys reading in a library at Stanley, Hong Kong, China, 1939
Creator: Hessler, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939-11-27
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 three boys sitting on the floor in front of a shelf of books as they read one of the books held by the boy in the middle.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 8.7 x 6.6 cm.
Identifier: impa-m6360 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-020-05-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6360
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-020-05-0004.jpg
Subject: Boys
Books
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
General views
Time Period: 1939-11-27
Place: China
Hong Kong
Source: MKL/China/020/05/0004 [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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