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Title: Boats delivering supplies to famine victims, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 1912
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
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: "Five boats on grand canal taken from the sixth boat which are carrying 1500 bu of rice and $3000.00 to the faminites -- Travelling under sail only. Feb. 1912 -- D. S. D." Several boats sailing on the water.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 8.3 x 10.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m10183 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG022-013-0148-0010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10183
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG022-013-0148-0010.jpg
Subject: Inland water transport
Hunger
General views
Time Period: 1912
Place: Asia
China
Szechwan
Source: YDS/RG022/013/0148/0010 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
impa-m980

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