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Title
Wedding party, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, ca. 1920
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1910/1930
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
A Chinese bride is in a white dress with flowers. She is flanked by a large group of Chinese and Western missionaries. Emily S. Hartwell stands behind the bride to the left. The Rev. George Hubbard and his wife Ellen (Nellie) Louise (Peet) stand behind Hartwell. Also present are the Chinese pastors Ling, Ding, and Li. A marching band composed of Chinese boys in uniform stand to the right.
This photo is from the papers of Emily Susan Hartwell, an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary stationed in Foochow, Fukien from 1884.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 20.9 x 28.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13675 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-094-0005-0005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13675
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-094-0005-0005.jpg
Subject
Customs and traditions
Women
Indigenous populations
Hartwell, Emily S
Group portraits
Time Period
1910/1930
Place
Asia
China
Foochow
Fukien
Source
YDS/RG008/094/0005/0005 [File]
Relation
Emily Susan Hartwell 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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