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Title
Guest room of Chinese Church, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca.1939
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1930/1940
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
"The Moon Doorway to the Guestroom of the Chinese Church, where the church services in English are held for the many refugee alumni of Christian colleges and schools from all over China, now in Chengtu. One of the 100-year-old crepe myrtle trees can be seen in the court, for which poor Chinese Christians once paid 79 taels extra, when a Chinese inn became this church many years ago." [now Chengdu] A courtyard with a myrtle tree in the center. Behind it is a round entrance.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 5.4 x 5.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m9749 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG011-416-0000-5245
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9749
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG011-416-0000-5245.jpg
Subject
University campuses
West China Union University
Exterior views
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Asia
China
Szechwan
Source
YDS/RG011/416/0000/5245 [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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