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Title
Corpses in pond following Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing, China,ca.1937-1938
Creator
Forster, Ernest
Date Created and/or Issued
1937/1938
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
"A pond outside Nanking filled with the corpses of people who were killed by the Japanese troops. This is a scene typical of many of the ponds inside the city after the occupation of the city by the Japanese."
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-m5537 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0037
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5537
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0037.jpg
Subject
War victims
General views
Time Period
1937/1938
Place
Asia
China
Nanking
Source
YDS/RG008/265/0002/0037 [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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