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Title: Maryknoll Sisters Convent in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, 1923
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
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: View of the front of the Maryknoll Sisters Convent in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Building is a two story structure built out of concrete with a front balcony over the entrance. Shutters appear on several windows. The foundation is cut stone. There is a deep entablature on the flat roofline. Writing appears on the front of the image.
Maryknoll, The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, was founded in 1911 by Revs. James Anthony Walsh and Thomas Frederick Price to be the main mission outreach of the Roman Catholic Church of the United States. The first group of missioners departed in 1918 for China. Today Maryknoll Priests, Brothers and Sisters are missioned in over 30 countries around the world.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 12.5 x 7.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2213 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-001-03-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2213
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-001-03-0006.jpg
Subject: Architecture
Housing
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Exterior views
Time Period: 1923
Place: China
Hong Kong
Source: MKL/China/001/03/0006 [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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