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Title
Baptism of orphans , Loting, China, ca. 1935
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1935
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
Photograph of Fr. Lavin and Sr. Francis baptizing babies that were brought to the orphanage at Loting. "At the moongate in Loting, China. The older girls of the orphanage run by the Maryknoll Sisters brought abandoned babies off the street to be baptized and cared for. Many of the babies died very soon...Most of the girls living at the orphanage had been abandoned because they were blind."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
10.5 x 7 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m62233 [Legacy record ID]
MSA-China-05-05-01
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m62233
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MSA-China-05-05-01.jpg
Subject
Orphans
Religious behaviour
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1935
Place
Asia
China
inhabited places: Loting
Source
MSA/China/05/05/01 [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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