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Title	Dr. Blaber and Bro. Anslem at leprosarium at Xinhui, China, 1935
Description	This is a photograph of "Brother Anslem [left] and Dr. Blaber [center] at the Sunwui [now Xinhui]." Dr. Harry Blaber, from Brooklyn, New York went to China for Maryknoll in 1935 to work with Frs. Joseph Sweeney and Francis Connors in their leprosarium in south China. After an initial five years he returned to the U.S., married and went back to China with his wife for another two years. -- Brother Bernard, known also as Anselm, was born in London, England. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1911, becoming a U.S. citizen while serving in the Army in 1918. He joined Maryknoll in 1926 and was assigned to Hong Kong in 1928. He worked variously in Hong Kong, Kongmoon, and Manchuria. After being briefly imprisoned by the Japanese he was repatriated aboard the refugee ship Gripsholm in 1942. He worked in the U.S. for the remaineder of his life.
Subject	Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Subject (aat)	general views
Subject (unesco)	Medical assistance Missionary work
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Sunwui [now Xinhui]
Geographic subject (country)	China
Coverage date	1935
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1935
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	Photographic prints 12.4 x 17.9 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m7058
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/023/05/0007
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-023-05-0007
Archival file	impa_Volume75/IMP-MKL-China-023-05-0007.tiff

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