Graduation ceremony, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca. 1943

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Title: Graduation ceremony, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, ca. 1943
Published / Created: 1940-1950
Publication Place: Szechwan, China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Joint graduation of University of Nanking, West China Union University, Cheeloo University, and Ginling College. Speakers on the stage, with a backdrop of plants against a white-painted brick wall; more plants along the edge of the stage. Graduates are partly visible in front. Speakers, from left: a man in Chinese dress; a Western man in a suit; a woman in Chinese dress; a Western man in clerical vestments; a Chinese man in a suit; another man in Chinese dress. They are speaking or singing from papers held in the hands.
Extent: 15.7 x 24.5 cm.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Collection / Other Creator: United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Collection Date: 1882-1977
Container / Volume: Box 418 | Folder 5886

Access: Public
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