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Title: Pole climbing at Play Day, Yenching University, Beijing, China, 1938
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: Play day, May 1938. Different colleges trying to climb the pole to get the flag. After half an hour no one had succeeded in reaching it.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 18.5 x 13.75 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2068 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG011-419-5900-6253
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2068
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG011-419-5900-6253.jpg
Subject: Higher education institutions
Sport
Yanjing da xue
Group portraits
Time Period: 1938
Place: China
Peiping
Source: YDS/RG011/419/5900/6253 [File]
Relation: Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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