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Title
Altar in a chapel, Hokkaido, Japan, ca. 1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920/1940
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 altar of a chapel in Hokkaido, Japan. Two steps lead to the platform where the altar sits. A vase of flowers is unter the altar. A tabernacle is on top of the altar with three candels on either side. There is a statue on both sides of the tabernacle as well as one on top of it. Two columns extend from the floor to the ceiling on the sides of the altar.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic postcard : b&w
8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63370 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Postcards-Japan-394
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63370
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Postcards-Japan-394.jpg
Subject
Religious buildings
Chapels
Altars
Tabernacles
General views
Time Period
circa 1920/1940
Place
Asia
Japan
inhabited places: Hokkaido
Source
MFB/Postcards/Japan/394 [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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