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Title: Group posing at Nanking Safety Zone Committee headquarters, Nanjing, China,1937
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: "At the headquarters of the Nanking Safety Zone Committee. Left to right: Mr. Zial (Russian Tartar)
Mr. Hatz (Austrian)
Mr. Rabe (German, Chairman of the Safety Zone Committee)
Rev. John Magee (American Church Mission)
Mr. Cola Podshivaloff (White Russian) December 13, 1937.
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-m5503 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0009
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5503
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0009.jpg
Subject: Rabe, John, 1882-1949
War
Group portraits
Time Period: 1937
Place: Asia
China
Nanking
Source: YDS/RG008/265/0002/0009 [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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