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Title
Rev. Lloyd Glass with children at Boystown at Guilin, China,1947
Creator
McCabe, Fr. Edwin
Date Created and/or Issued
1947-08-08
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 "Fr. Glass at Chuansien [now Chuanxian] with youngsters of Boystown that he ran for orphans after World War II." They stand atop a tank that is in a field. There is a village in the background.
Rev. Glass was born in Cresco, IA. . He entered Maryknoll in 1931 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1935 and assigned to Wuchow South China. He spent most of his time in Kweilin (Guilin). During WWII he served as a chaplain with General Chennault's Flying Tigers. After home leave in 1944 he returned to Kweilin, becoming pastor of Chuenchow in 1946. He conducted a 'boys' town' for war orphans, homes for abandoned infants, and a rice bank for farmers. In 1951 he was placed under house arrest by the Communists and returned home later that year. In 1955 he was assigned to Taiwan, working chiefly among the native Taiwanese people. He returned to the U.S. in 1962.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.1 x 12.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3756 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-004-11-0009
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3756
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-004-11-0009.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
1947-08-08
Place
China
Kweilin
Source
MKL/China/004/11/0009 [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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