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Title: The Gate of Heaven Leper Asylum at Jiangmen, China
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: Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description: This is a photograph of "Main Street at the Gate of Heaven Leper Asylum. Took coffin boards from cemetery to erect houses."
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 5.8 x 8.5 cm.
Identifier: impa-m7047 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-023-04-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7047
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-023-04-0004.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Leprosy
Human settlements
General views
Place: China
Kongmoon
Source: MKL/China/023/04/0004 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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