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Title	Fr. Cairns with his catechist and family at Huazhou, China, 1924
Description	This is a photograph of "Father Robert Cairns with his catechist and family in Fachow [now Huazhou]." There are two sons and a baby in the mother's arms wearing a decorative hat.; Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty-four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. During WWII he was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941.
Subject	Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Clergy Family
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Fachow [now Huazhou]
Geographic subject (country)	China
Coverage date	1924
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1924
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	Photographic prints 20.3 x 14.4 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m6100
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
Part of repository	Maryknoll Mission Archives
File	MKL/China/018/10/0006
Rights	http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/593; Maryknoll Mission Archives
Access conditions	http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/593
Repository name	Maryknoll Mission Archives
Repository address	Maryknoll Mission Archives, PO. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y 10545-0305
Repository email	archives@maryknoll.org
Filename	IMP-MKL-China-018-10-0006
Archival file	impa_Volume33/IMP-MKL-China-018-10-0006.tiff

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