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Title
Holy Thursday in Changpu, Meixien, China, 1937
Creator
Welch, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
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
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
A photograph of eight women kneeling before an alter with veils over their heads as they pray at the Repository on Holy Thursday. The women's backs are facing away from the photographer, they are dressed in white. There are candles lit at the altar and a white veil over the tabernacle.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 11.5 x 8.3 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3466 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-003-08-0005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3466
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-003-08-0005.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Religious behaviour
Religious practice
Interior views
Time Period
1937
Place
China
Meixien
Source
MKL/China/003/08/0005 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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