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Title: Refugees at headquarters of Nanking Safety Zone Committee, Nanjing, China,1938
Creator: Forster, Ernest
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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: "Refugees gathered at the headquarters of the Nanking Safety Zone Committee to receive the first cash relief issued by the Committee to enable them to return to their homes and begin life over. February 1938. The rock garden conceals a strong concrete air-raid shelter." Second view, with large Red Cross flag on ground in garden area.
Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5532 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0022
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5532
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0022.jpg
Subject: Refugees
General views
Time Period: 1938
Place: Asia
China
Nanking
Source: YDS/RG008/265/0002/0022 [File]
Relation: Ernest and Clarissa Forster Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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