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Title: Bodies of victims of Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing, China,1937
Creator: Forster, Ernest
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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: "Persons executed by the Japanese soldiers in various parts of the grounds of Ku Ling Temple, Nanking, after the fall of the city, December 12, 1937."
Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5497 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5497
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0001.jpg
Subject: War victims
General views
Time Period: 1937
Place: Asia
China
Nanking
Source: YDS/RG008/265/0002/0001 [File]
Relation: Ernest and Clarissa Forster Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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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