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Title: Colporteur calling at house to sell Bibles, China. ca. 1910-1920
Creator: Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910/1920
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: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: Hunan colporteurs visiting a house." China circa 1910 - 1920. Photograph by Dr Wilson
Colporteurs were travelling booksellers, especially those employed by religious societies.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 10 x 14.4 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2622 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CIM-PHOTO-02-139
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2622
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CIM-PHOTO-02-139.jpg
Subject: China Inland Mission
Group portraits
Time Period: 1910/1920
Place: China
Source: SOAS/CIM/PHOTO/2/139 Box 18 [File]
Relation: China Inland Mission / Overseas Missionary Fellowship
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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