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Title: A catechist on the road at Zhigong, China, 1937
Creator: Smith, Fr
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: 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 a "catechist explaining picture illustrating the roads to Heaven and Hell. During a visit to a new village, Chiklung [now Zhigong]. The crowd disappeared when they saw [Fr. Smith] trying to take a picture."
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 9 x 6.5 cm.
Identifier: impa-m5927 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-017-02-0010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5927
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-017-02-0010.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Religious education
Communities
General views
Time Period: 1937
Place: Chiklung
China
Source: MKL/China/017/02/0010 [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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