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Title: Fr. Burke with a child at Yangjiang, China, 1931
Creator: Dempsey, A.F
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description: This is a photograph of Fr. Burke posing with a young child in front of a tree. The child wears a hat and carries a purse.
Born in Ireland, Fr. Burke came to this country in 1914. He entered Maryknoll in 1920. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 27, 1929 and that same year was assigned to Kongmoon China. In 1940 he was assigned to work among the Chinese in Cleveland, Ohio until 1943. He then went to Chicago where he again ministered to the Chinese.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 10.2 x 7.6 cm.
Identifier: impa-m4597 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-008-10-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4597
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-008-10-0006.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Children
Portraits
Time Period: 1931
Place: China
Yangjiang
Source: MKL/China/008/10/0006 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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