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Title
Salvaging from destroyed building, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 1939
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
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
"Chengtu: Searching in ruins of burned over area after Japanese bombing of June 11, 1939. Small piece of rock garden supporting board on which is pasted direction for the forwarding of mail. Picture taken second day after." [now Chengdu] A building razed by bombs. Several people are sorting through the rubble, baskets at their sides.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9.9 x 7.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m10069 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG011-416-0000-5371
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10069
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG011-416-0000-5371.jpg
Subject
War devastated countries
General views
Time Period
1939
Place
Asia
China
Szechuan
Source
YDS/RG011/416/0000/5371 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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