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Title	Fr. Constantine F. Burns in Yunfu, China, 1947.
Description	This is a photograph of Fr. Constantine F. Burns "vaccinating a local schoolboy with the next two customers wondering does it hurt." He is set up in a room that acts as a small infirmary.; Born in Ohio, Fr. Burns came to Maryknoll in 1919 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 15, 1924. He was assigned to Kongmoon, China the same year. In 1931, he was made Procurator of the China mission based in Hong Kong. In 1950, due to political unrest, he transferred to Kyoto in the Japanese mission. He spent his later years in mission in Hokkaido, Japan.
Subject	Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Subject (aat)	general views
Subject (unesco)	Clergy Missionary work
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Yunfu
Geographic subject (country)	China
Coverage date	1947-06
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1947-06
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	Photographic prints, 9.6 x 6.9 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m3670
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/004/07/0005
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-004-07-0005
Archival file	impa_Volume7/IMP-MKL-China-004-07-0005.tiff

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