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Title
Crowd of Chinese who had gathered to see an aviator and airplane, Haizhou, Jiangsu, China, 1914
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
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
"Part of the crowd who came to see the aviator and his machine. The soldiers were on guard - but you see how they kept the crowd off. City wall and mountains in the background. Haichow Nov, 1914." [Identification by Dr. Ruth B. Morgan.] Two Chinese guards are surrounded by a crowd of Chinese in Haichow [now Haizhou].
Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan were American medical missionaries in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces of China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards from 1905 to 1946.
Type
image
Format
photographs, 8.3 x 13.7 cm.
Identifier
impa-m68576 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG126-036-0471-0007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68576
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG126-036-0471-0007.jpg
Subject
Armed forces
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
1914
Place
Asia
China
Source
YDS/RG126/036/0471/0007 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Lorenzo and Ruth Morgan Papers
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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