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Title
Classroom decorated for Christmas, Boone School, Wuchang, China, 1897
Creator
Abbott, Edward
Date Created and/or Issued
1897
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
"Boone School, Williams Hall, General Study Hall, Christmas 1897" School room with evergreen Christmas decorations strung from ceiling and "Merry Christmas" written on blackboard.
Boone School was founded in 1871 as a memorial to William Jones Boone, first Bishop of the American Church Mission (Episcopal) in China. It was incorporated as a university, under laws of the District of Columbia, 1909. In 1922, Boone joined with Wesley College and Griffith John College to form Central China College, also known as Huachung College.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9.5 x 11.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2407 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-248-0001-0007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2407
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-248-0001-0007.jpg
Subject
Higher education institutions
Hua-chung ta hsüeh, Wuchang, China
Interior views
Time Period
1897
Place
China
Wuchang
Source
YDS/RG008/248/0001/0007 [File]
Relation
Edward Abbott 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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