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Reverend Merrill Brininstool, after a perilous return from a 6-year mission in China, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Reverend Merrill Brininstool, after a perilous return from a 6-year mission in China, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 10, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to the article, "Missionary Cites Perils: Minister Takes Furlough. Family Leaves Hurriedly as 30,000 Communists Advance on Mission," Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 1935: 8.
Reverend Merrill Brininstool, wearing a traditional silk or satin jacket and cap, seen here standing next to a map of China. He holds a rolled scroll and appears to point toward an area in Chwanpien, Tibet, which borders Szechwan Provence (where his mission was located). Hanging on the background wall are numerous Native American and Southwest items.
Written on negative: Merrill Brinnistool [sic] - 8/10/35
Text from negative sleeve: 1752. Merrill Brinnistool [sic]. Minister. 8/10/35. [Stamped:] Aug 27 1935.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10138
ark:/21198/zz002ddx10
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Missionaries--American--California--Los Angeles
Brininstool, Merrill O., 1904-1975
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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