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Title: Members of Nanking Safety Zone Committee, Nanjing, China,1937
Creator: Unknown
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: 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: "Western Heroes of Nanking. Left to Right - 1. Ernest Forster. 2. Prof. Mills. 3. (German.) [John Rabe] 4. Prof. Smith. 5. Mr. Rohe (German). 6. George Fitch. Paramount News Reel. Nanking China. About December 15, 1937."
These men were the leaders of the Nanking Safety Zone Committee that provided assistance to the Chinese during the Nanking Massacre and Japanese occupation of Nanjing 1937-1938.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 15.5 x 18 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5639 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0003-0098
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5639
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0003-0098.jpg
Subject: Humanitarian assistance
Rabe, John, 1882-1949
Group portraits
Time Period: 1937
Place: Asia
China
Nanking
Source: YDS/RG008/265/0003/0098 [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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