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Title
Courtyard of an orphanage, Kyoto, Japan, December 1937
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1937-12
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
Photographic postcard of the courtyard outside the orphanage run by the "Religieuses de I Enfant Jesus." There is a group of children standing in the courtyard. The entrance to the orphanage is on the right side of the photo at the top of four steps. There is a nun standing on the platform on the right side of the photo.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic postcard : b&w
8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63654 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Postcards-Japan-463
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63654
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Postcards-Japan-463.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Orphanages
Nuns
Groups of people
General views
Time Period
1937-12
Place
Asia
Japan
inhabited places: Kyoto
Source
MFB/Postcards/Japan/463 [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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