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Title: A Western nurse playing with a Chinese child, Shanghai, China, ca. 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: Marian Hurst, a nurse at St. Elizabeth's Refugee Hospital, is playing with a very young Chinese boy in the patients' ward. The boy was nicknamed "the Cake Eater". The photograph was taken in April 1939.
Elizabeth H. Falck was a member of the American Church Mission (ACM) in Shanghai, China (ca. 1923-1929). She left behind many writings and photographs relating to hospitals in China.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 8.4 x 5.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m14442 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-065-0004-0016
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14442
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-065-0004-0016.jpg
Subject: Medical treatment
Hospitals
Children
Refugees
General views
Time Period: 1939
Place: Asia
China
Shanghai
Source: YDS/RG008/065/0004/0016 [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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