Image: Plague Workers Mukden, Manchuria, 1882-ca. 1936 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS8-045)

Description: Plague Workers Mukden, Manchuria, 1882-ca. 1936 Photograph of a group of plague workers in Mukden, Manchuria. The workers are standing in front of a low wooden building, possibly Mukden Plague hospital. All are wearing cloth masks over their faces.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Scottish missionary Dugald Christie. Dugald Christie was born in Glencoe in Scotland and studied medicine under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. In 1882, along with his first wife, Elizabeth, he went to Manchuria to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He worked initially in Newchang and later moved to the capital of Mukden where he opened Manchuriaas first hospital in 1884. In 1912 he established Mukden Medical College. Dugald Christie retired in 1923 and died in Edinburgh in 1936.Photographer: Unknown Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS8-045.tif Coverage date: 1882/1936 Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Geographic subject (region): Manchuria Type: images Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1707.url Geographic subject (city or populated place): Mukden Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): China Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm. Geographic subject (continent): Asia Rights: Contact the repository for details. Part of series: Dugald Christie LS8 Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk Subject (lcsh Keyword): Plague; Medical Care Date created: before 1882/1936 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Subject (aat genre): group portraits Format (aat): lantern slides Legacy record ID: impa-m69160 Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS8/45
Title: Plague Workers Mukden, Manchuria, 1882-ca. 1936 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS8-045)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64826
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License: Public domain
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