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Title
People washing themselves in a sacred river, Vārānasi , India, ca. 1920
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1915/1925
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
"Pilgrims of India. They are trying to wash away their sins by bathing in a "sacred" river." Hundreds of people are washing themselves in a river. They are crowding in from the shore and the buildings near the shore. This photograph is from an album prepared by W. K. Norton of The Pilgrims Mission, Benares [Vārānasi].
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 8.5 x 11.6 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg030-449-0001-0044.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82690
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg030-449-0001-0044.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Religious practice
Rivers
Group portraits
Time Period
1915/1925
Place
Asia
India
Uttar Pradesh
Source
IMP/YDS/RG030/449/0001/0044 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
W. K. Norton Papers
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
image/tiff
impa-m980

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