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Title
Chinese orphans at Luoding, China, 1947
Creator
Gilleran, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued
1947-10
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
This is a photograph of "Chinese orphans at our Loting [now Luoding] mission. Thousands of babies have been baptized here and many of them die in a few days because they are abandoned when dying."
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 13.4 x 8.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-m4393 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-007-11-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4393
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-007-11-0006.jpg
Subject
Abandoned children
Missionary work
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Group portraits
Time Period
1947-10
Place
China
Luoding
Source
MKL/China/007/11/0006 [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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