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Title
Fr. Dempsey washing clothes at Kunming, China, 1945
Creator
Cosgrove, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued
1945-11
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 Father Dempsey washing clothes in a wooden wash basin and a wash board.
Born in New York, Fr. Dempsey came to Maryknoll in 1919 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1929. The same year he was assigned to the Wuchow mission in South China and became the temporary Society Superior of the mission in 1936. During the war years he was named the superior of Chungking and was awarded an Emblem for Meritorious Civilian Service by the US Military Ordinariate in 1945. He fled to Hong Kong in 1951 and returned again to work with refugees in 1953. As late as 1972, Fr. Dempsey worked as a chaplain to young workers at the Caritas Center in Ngau Tau Kok in Hong Kong.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 8.7 x 6.3 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3799 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-004-16-0002
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3799
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-004-16-0002.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Religious communities
Exterior views
Time Period
1945-11
Place
China
Kunming
Source
MKL/China/004/16/0002 [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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