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Title
Buildings damaged by an earthquake, Shantou, China, 1918
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1918
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 shop, restaurant, & house. III. Earthquake at Swatow [Shantou] Feb. 13, 1918." All that is left of most of the buildings depicted here is a pile of rubble. The roofs have entirely caved in because of the earthquake. Some people stand in front of the pile and survey the damage.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 7.5 x 10 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg015-012-0151-0013.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-83251
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg015-012-0151-0013.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
1918
Place
Asia
China
Guangdong
Shantou
Source
IMP/YDS/RG015/012/0151/0013 [File]
Relation
Ellison and Lottie Hildreth 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
image/tiff
impa-m980

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