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Title
Village barber, China, ca.1921
Creator
Barbour, Margaret Hart
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1921
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 village barber. They often do their shaving in the street." The barber is shaving the head of a child while another boy looks on.
Margaret Hart Barbour, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary in Shanghai at St. John's University from 1916 to 1923.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12.7 x 17.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m4788 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-020-0001-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4788
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-020-0001-0006.jpg
Subject
Customs and traditions
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1921
Place
Asia
China
Source
YDS/RG008/020/0001/0006 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Margaret Hart Barbour Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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