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Title: Committee for religious work among refugees, Nanjing, China,1938
Creator: Forster, Ernest
Date Created and/or Issued: 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: "Committee which organized the first religious work among the refugee women and girls at Ginling College. Front row: Miss ?, Miss Rachel Wong, Miss Minnie Vautrin, Mrs. S.F. Tsen, Miss Chi
Rear row: Rev. C.T. Chiang (ACM), Catechist Fan (ACM), Rev. John Magee (ACM)
Dean Tong (ACM), Mr. Francis Ch'en (Ginling), Mr. Li (Ginling), Rev. Paul Tong (ACM)"
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-m5533 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0027
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5533
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-265-0002-0027.jpg
Subject: Refugees
Group portraits
Time Period: 1938
Place: Asia
China
Nanking
Source: YDS/RG008/265/0002/0027 [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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