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Title: Farewell tea for John Rabe, Chairman of Safety Zone Committee, Nanjing, China,1938
Creator: Forster, Ernest
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: "Farewell tea given in honor of Mr. Rabe, Chairman of the Safety Zone Committee, by members of the staff, upon the occasion of his departure for German. February 21, 1938. In the pictures can be seen Mr. Magee, Mr. Sperling (German), Dr. Rosen (German Embassy staff)
Mr. Rabe, Mr. Paul Scharffenberg (German Embassy staff who died in Nanking on June 19, 1938)."
Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 6.8 x 11.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5504 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5504
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0010.jpg
Subject: Occupied territories
Rabe, John, 1882-1949
Group portraits
Time Period: 1937
Place: Asia
China
Nanking
Source: YDS/RG008/265/0002/0010 [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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