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Title: Campus in snow with bell and pagoda, Yenching University, Beijing, China, 1931
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: "The Pagoda farther to the east beyond the Bell T'ing Tzu Hill. Yenching University, Christmas 1931. Men's bell - pagoda - background showing trees and foliage. The Bell is several hundred years old." Two men and two women stand on the steps leding to the bell, which hangs under a small round canopy. Snow on the ground, trees and shrubs. Pagoda partly visible in the background.
Yenching University was later known as Yanjing da xue.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 18.7 x 31.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m9790 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG011-420-5912-6413
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9790
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG011-420-5912-6413.jpg
Subject: University campuses
Yanjing da xue
General views
Time Period: 1931
Place: Asia
China
Peiping
Source: YDS/RG011/420/5912/6413 [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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