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Title: Ferocious lion sculpture, Beijing, China, 1927
Creator: Manly, Wilson Edward
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: "Peiking 1927. Child is Patty Canright." A large savage looking Chinese lion sculpture is shown in front of buildings at Peiping [Beijing]. A small child sits at the top of the ornate pedestal in front of the lion.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 12 x 7 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-yds-rg082-005-0065-0040.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82835
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg082-005-0065-0040.jpg
Subject: Sculpture
Children
General views
Time Period: 1927
Place: Asia
China
Source: IMP/YDS/RG082/005/0065/0040 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Manly Family Papers
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
image/tiff
impa-m980

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