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Title: Baby basket, China, 1911
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
United Reformed Church
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Place your babies here. Do not throw them into the pond". Note left on basket to rescue baby girls. Mrs Bell, President of the Women's Missionary Association of the English Presbyterian Church, stands by the basket.
Album of photographs collected by Lena Johnston who accompanied Mrs Bell, President of the Women's Missionary Association of the English Presbyterian Mission, on a deputational visit to China in 1911.
Type: image
Format: Photographic print, 11.3 x 8.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m7830 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-2-12-03-26
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7830
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-2-12-03-26.jpg
Subject: Abandoned children
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Exterior views
Time Period: 1911
Place: Chaozhou
China
Source: SOAS/PCE/China Photographs/03/26 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
Presbyterian Church of England's Foreign Missions Committee
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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