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Title: Doctors performing an operation at St. Luke's in Shanghai, China, ca.1925
Creator: unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1930
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: Doctors and their supporting staff perform an operation on a patient in the operating room at St. Luke's Hospital in Shanghai. A tray full of surgical implements is resting on the patient's legs. Artificial lighting is present. Two buckets lay on the floor at the foot of the patient's bed.
This photo is from the papers of Elizabeth H. Falck, a member of the American Church Mission (ACM) in Shanghai, China (ca. 1923-1929).
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 6.0 x 5.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m14461 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-065-0004-0035
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14461
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-065-0004-0035.jpg
Subject: Medical treatment
Hospitals
General views
Time Period: 1920/1930
Place: Asia
China
Shanghai
Source: YDS/RG008/065/0004/0035 [File]
Relation: 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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