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Title
Missionary G.B.Farthing on horseback, Shanxi, China, ca.1890-1899
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1890/1899
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
"Mr.Farthing" George Bryant Farthing is shown in Chinese-style clothing seated on a small horse in front of a mission building. Chinese characters on the building appear to be a Biblical quotation.
British Baptist missionary G.B.Farthing and his family were martyred in Shansi during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 21 x 15.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2537 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-325-0001-0086
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2537
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-325-0001-0086.jpg
Subject
Baptist Missionary Society
Clergy
Farthing, George Bryant
Portraits
Time Period
1890/1899
Place
China
Shansi
Source
YDS/RG008/325/0001/0086 [File]
Relation
Alfred Jones Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers
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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