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Title
War damage, Nanjing, China,1938
Creator
Forster, Ernest
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
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
"War damage in the southern section of Nanking where most of the fighting in connection with the fall of the city took place. Picture taken March 17, 1938."
Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m5595 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0049
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5595
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0049.jpg
Subject
Occupied territories
General views
Time Period
1938
Place
Asia
China
Nanking
Source
YDS/RG008/265/0002/0049 [File]
Relation
Ernest and Clarissa Forster Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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