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Choir at Christmas service, Fukien Christian University, Shaowu, Fujian, China, 1939

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Title: Choir at Christmas service, Fukien Christian University, Shaowu, Fujian, China, 1939
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: "Shaowu campus" "Christmas Choir Service, Fukien Christian University, 1939. Led by an alumnus of the institution, Mr. Jen Chi Hui. Two renditions were given of this year's program, one for the town, one for our own community. The traditional candle-light service was maintained" The vested choir on stage, with Christmas tree at left, cloth hangings behind and above, and greenery covering the front of the stage.
Fukien Christian University had a refugee campus at Shaowu during the Sino-Japanese war.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 7.2 x 10.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m10021 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG011-395-0001-0158
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10021
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG011-395-0001-0158.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Religious practice
Fujian xie he da xue
Group portraits
Time Period: 1939
Place: Asia
China
Fukien
Source: YDS/RG011/395/0001/0158 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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