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Title
Starving child, Shaoxing, China, ca.1937-1942
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1937/1942
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
"One of the least. Starving child during WWII Shaoshing [now Shaoxing] orphanage - the child survived." An emaciated child is holding an empty bowl and chopsticks.
From the collection of the Hartwell family, American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12 x 7 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m69533 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG004-016-0053-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m69533
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG004-016-0053-0006.jpg
Subject
Abandoned children
Hunger
Portraits
Time Period
1937/1942
Place
Asia
China
Source
YDS/RG004/016/0053/0006 [File]
Relation
Hartwell Family 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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