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Title
Stone ancestral shrine standing amid trees, China, ca.1917-1923
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1940
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
“Family shrine erected in honor of ancestors. Visited often – respected, cared for.”
From the lantern slide show of Rolland and Lottie Welch, who served under the United Evangelical Mission / Evangelical church in Hunan, China, from 1917 to 1923.
Type
image
Format
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m66725 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG224-OV1-0000-0081
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m66725
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG224-OV1-0000-0081.jpg
Subject
Customs and traditions
Religious practices
General views
Time Period
1917/1923
Place
Asia
China
Source
YDS/RG224/OV1/0000/0081 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Rolland and Lottie Welch Papers
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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