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Title
Frs. Downs as he reads quietly in Sanheba, China, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938-01-01
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. William J. Downs taken in Sanhopa [now Sanheba]. He is sitting on a chair on a porch quietly reading.
Born in Pennsylvania, Fr. Downs came to Maryknoll in 1920 after being ordained in the Erie Diocese in 1916. He took a perpetual oath to Maryknoll in 1930. He was assigned to Kaying in 1925 and became Society Superior there in 1930. In 1939 he was assigned to teach the Hakka dialect in Hong Kong. He spent many years in Hong Kong and the South China region before returning to the United States in 1969.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10 x 7.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3852 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-005-05-0003
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3852
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-005-05-0003.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Leisure time activities
Portraits
Time Period
1938-01-01
Place
China
Sanheba
Source
MKL/China/005/05/0003 [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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