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DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64225
title: Vaqueria, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1944

description: Photograph of "vaqueria - native dance with a mixture of Spanish gallantry in it. Place is the portico of the municipal govt. surrouding the plaza. Notice that some of the Maya Indians have begun to change for modern dress."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64215
title: Vaqueria, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, March 1946

description: "For this occasion of the vaqueria the Mayas are wearing shoes. Usually  they traipsed about in bare feet like soft souled ghosts. That hair ribbon is used on Sundays and festive occasions." At the center of this photograph a young man bows to the woman standing in front of him. Behind them, women and children sit along the outer wall of a building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64238
title: Couple carrying palm fronds, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 1946

description: Photograph of an older couple carrying palm fronds on their backs. The woman wears a traditional dress with floral embroidery around the neckline and hemline. She has her hands clasped in front of her. The man wears a large woven hat, a long-sleeve shirt and pants rolled to his knees. In the background is a tall stone wall. To the right of the couple are two girls wearing white dresses. "Grandma and grandpa come in from jungle with repaids for roof. Q. Roo mission '46."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64143
title: Constructing framework of a palm thatched house in Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, March 1946

description: Photograph of men "constructing framework of a palm thatched house in Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, March 1946."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64141
title: Two Yucatecans in front of palm thatched shack, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of "two Yucatecans in front of palm thatched shack, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico." Two men sit on a stone staircase. The man on the left wears a baseball cap, white shirt, light-colored pants and sandals. he man on the right wears a woven hat, white shirt, dark pants and sandals. Both men look at something out of frame on the left.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64147
title: Captain Marcelino Chi and his grandson Pablo, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of "a close-up of Captain Chi and his grandson Pablo. Although they live in a village where the medium of communication is Spanish, they and many other Mayas have not learned that language. On the other hand others here have and speak both tongues." The grandfather sits outdoors wearing a woven hat with a dark band. His grandson stands to his right holding a flower in his right hand. A hut can be seen in the background on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64144
title: Yucatecans constructing house in Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of "Yucatecans constructing house in Quintana Roo."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64232
title: Family standing in front of the entrance to a building, Mexico, ca. 1943

description: Photograph of a family standing on a sidewalk in front of the entrance to a building. The man wears a wide-brimmed hat and has his hands clasped in front of him. The woman to his left wears a traditional dress with floral embroidery around the neckline and hemline. The girl to her left wears a floral top with patch pockets. Behind them, a group of three people sits on benches outside the building under a sign that reads "Kambul."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64168
title: Mayas in front of chicle store house, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: Photograph of "Mayas in front of chicle store house." Fifteen men pose for this group photograph on a hill in front of a building made of stick walls, a corrugated roof and a wood door.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64170
title: Maya Indians with new radio, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: Photograph of "Maya Indians with new radio." Two men sit indoors at a small, square table on which is a Zenith radio. The man on the left sits on a wood crate and has his head propped on his left hand. The man on the right sits in a folding chair and holds one of the radio dials with his right hand.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64165
title: Local dentist with a patient, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 1947

description: Photograph of a "local dentist." The dentist, a dark-haired man with a moustache, stands next to his patient who sits slightly reclined in a wood chair. He holds an instrument in his right hand. On the floor next to him is a bucket and a piece of newspaper. Behind him is a small table and a July/August 1947 calendar.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64156
title: Captain Marcelino Chi and his grandson, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: "Captain Marcelino Chi and his grandson, Pablo, pose in the pation of their home. Note rocky condition of land. The whole territory of Quintana Roo is rocky and making agriculture impossible excpet for the cultivation of corn, beans and squash." Photograph of an older man, right, and a boy, left, standing outdoors in front of a thatched roof building with stick walls.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64153
title: Don Esteban Gasca and family, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of "Don Esteban Gasca, whom Fr. McGuire mentions in his article, with his wife Teresa and son and cousin Carlos Sosa in front of the famed general store." Don Esteban leans against the store's doorframe. He wears a hat and holds a cigarette with his right hand. His wife stands behind him just inside the door. She wears a floral dress. Their son stands to the right of the door. Carlos stands next to his cousin Don Esteban.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64163
title: Man crouching in front of a lime kiln, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1948

description: Photograph of a man crouching in front of a lime kiln. He rests his left hand on the logs as he looks directly at the camera. Standing to the left is a young man who also looks at the camera. The feet, legs and hat of a third man can be seen in the lower right hand corner of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64261
title: Maya woman and children, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: Photograph of a "Maya woman and daughters who are adopting modern dress." Eight women and children pose outdoors for this group photo. Two of the women hold children. The facade of a whitewashed building with three windows and a large doorway can be seen in the background on the right side of the photo.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64157
title: Man and boy standing in the general store doorway, Laguna, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1944

description: Photograph of "two loungers in the doorway of the general store at the mahogany camp, Laguna, Q. Roo. The mosquitos are like flying fortresses." A man, right, and a boy, left, lean against the doorframe of a thatched roof building with stick walls. A single lightbulb hangs from a post that extends outwards from the upper left corner of the doorframe.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64281
title: Maya woman and her two daughters, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of a Maya woman and her two daughters standing outdoors. All three wear traditional dresses and shawls. The mother and youngest daughter carry baskets. The older daughter carries a cloth-wrapped parcel. "Typical mayan faces and dress. Quintana Roo mission."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64172
title: Mayan father with his children, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: Photograph of a"Mayan father with his children." In this group portrait a man sits outdoors on a wood chair. He has his left arm around the shoulders of his youngest son who stands to his left. His middle and oldest sons stand to his right. The man's right arm is around the shoulders of the middle son. In the background behind them is a stone wall and foliage. All but the middle son look directly at the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64180
title: Mayas prepare corn bread, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: "Mayas prepare corn bread to be offered to the cross in the petition for rain." Photograph of five men sitting in a semi-circle around a large bowl of dough. Their hands are covered with dough. On the floor between them and the camera are six buckets filled with dough. Above them is the building's thatched roof.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64176
title: Barber cutting a young man's hair, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1943

description: Photograph of a barber cutting a young man's hair. The barber, wearing a long-sleeve shirt and striped pants, stands outdoors behind a young man who sits in a chair wearing a white drape over his shirt. A third man stands with his hands in his pockets near the man having his hair cut. There are buildings in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64160
title: Group portrait of Father Robert Lee, MM, and Mexican men, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1948

description: Photograph of Fr. Robert Lee, MM, and seven Mexican men standing outdoors near a "lime kiln before burning." Standing on the ground in front of the kiln are three smiling men and Fr. Lee, right. Four men stand on top of the kiln. The man on the right holds an ax. The two men on the left carry machetes in their belts.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64269
title: Group portrait of women and children, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of "two Maya lassies and one in typical dress of the interior of Mexico and one of out little choir girls in modern dress - two school boys from Merida, Yucatan, and the ever present hungry dog." The group poses in front of entrance to a whitewashed building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64407
title: Silhouetted cross in Taxco, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of a silhouetted cross in Taxco. The cross is on the left side of the image. Behind it can be seen a sky filled with clouds and a bit of the nearby mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64405
title: Mount Orizaba, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of "Mt. Orizaba, halfway between Verzcruz and Mexico City." The snow-capped Mt. Orizaba is in the background. In the midground are buildings and farmland. In the foreground on the right side of the image is a large wood cross on a stone pedestal. Smaller wood crosses lay on the pedestal at the base of the large cross.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64264
title: Doctor's wife holding an infant, Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, March 1946

description: Photograph of the "wife of the doctor of Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, March 1946. She is from Mexico City." The woman sits in a wood chair holding a swaddled baby with her right arm. She entertains the child with the rattle she holds above her head with her left hand.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64185
title: Announcing ballgame and bazaar for church of Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, December 1946

description: Photograph of two boys wearing sandwich boards "announcing ballgame and bazaar for church of Carrillo Puerto, Dec 1946." Their backs face the camera as they walk near a white building.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64278
title: Portrait of two mothers, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: Photograph of two mothers standing outdoors in front of a large bush. The woman on the left wears a floral print dress. She holds a little girl who is crying. The woman on the right has her right hand on her hip and holds a little boy. The boy holds a woven fan with his left hand.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64284
title: Portrait of an Aztec mother and daughter, Tamazunchale, Mexico, ca. 1946

description: Photograph of an Aztec mother and daughter sitting outdoors. The mother wears a printed top and beaded necklace. Part of her dark hair is braided. She balances a large clay pot on her head. With downcast eyes her daughter leans against her mother's right side.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64287
title: Portrait of a Cora Indian mother and children, Tepic, Mexico, May 1943

description: Photograph of a "Cora Indian mother and children. From Fr. Martin, Tepic mission, May 1943."  The mother sits with her two children who both look at the camera. Her eyes are downcast and she wears beaded necklaces.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64402
title: Aerial view of Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1944

description: Photograph of "Carrillo Puerto from the air. The tunnel-like affair, a little to the left of center in the oblong, is the old structure raised by the Mayas to be a church, but now is used as a movie house. The white spot next to it (on the left) is the chapel of five benches - the present house of worship. The Maryknoll house is the square affair in the upper right hand corner of the oblong with the jungle as its backyard."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m64291
title: Maya family, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

description: Photograph of a "Maya family of Quintana Roo." In this group portrait, four women and eight children pose outdoors in front of an partially constructed hut. The women and girls wear traditional dresses with floral embroidery around the necklines and hemlines. The boys wear dark pants and light colored shirts. Behind the unfinished hut is a completed hut with a thatched roof and stick walls.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3692
title: Rev. Mark A. Churchill, MM,  with a boy at Luoding, China, 1931.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Churchill with a boy who is holding a wicker suitcase on his shoulder. Fr. Ahern holds a book and an umbrella.; Born in Iowa, Fr. Churchill entered Maryknoll in 1920 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1927. During his time in China, he wrote many letters describing life on the Chinese mission. He was expelled from the country by the Communists and returned to the United States in 1952. He spent the time in the US teaching and managing the seminaries run by Maryknoll.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3735
title: Fr. Escalante at the Chinese mission in Fushun, China, 1938.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Escalante at the Chinese mission at Sha Ha Ka'aw [Sandy River Mouth.] Two Chinese girls kneel before him and a young man stands next to him.; Fr. Alonso M. Escalante was born in Merida, Mexico, educated in Catholic Schools in Mexico and the United States. He entered Maryknoll Preparatory Seminary in 1920 and was ordained a Priest on February 1, 1931. His missionary labors took him to Fushun, Manchuria, China and later to the Pando, Bolivia. In 1943 he was named by the Holy See as Vicar Apostolic of the Pando and Titular Bishop of Sora. He was consecrated a Bishop in Mexico City on May 9, 1943. In 1948, at the request of the Mexican Hierarchy, he was assigned to assist in the organizing of a Foreign Mission Seminary and Society for Mexico. He was the Mexican National Director of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, a member of the Commission and Post-Conciliar Commission on the Missions, and President of the Mexican Episcopal Commission on the Missions. He was in Hong Kong in 1967 to secure mission territory for his Mexican Priests, when he caught typhoid fever and died on June 21, 1967.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3683
title: Fr. Robert  J. Cairns, MM,  at  Shangchuan, China, 1938.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Robert J. Cairns, MM, at the Sancian Island church. He stands on the altar which is highly decorated for Easter.; 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.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3736
title: Frs. Cotta and Lebbe in Tianjin, China, 1926.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Anthony J. Cotta [left] and Fr. Lebbe [right] sitting on a stone bench, smoking a pipe and talking. Both wear traditional Chinese clothing.; Rev. Cotta was born in Cairo, Egypt.  He studied in Beirut at St. Joseph's University and at the Vincentian College of Antoura, returning to Cairo to study with the Christian Brothers.  After working a few years for the Egyptian government he entered the Vincentian Fathers seminary in Paris and was ordained in 1898.  It was here he formed a lifelong friendship with noted China missioner Fr. Vincent Lebbe.  Fr. Cotta was assigned to Madagascar, returning to France in 1905 and was assigned to China in 1906, joining Fr. Lebbe in Peking and Tientsin.  In 1919 he returned to France.  In 1922 he was assigned to the Vincentian seminary in Germantown, PA.  During a leave of absence teaching Chinese at Maryknoll, he decided to join, taking Perpetual Oath to Maryknoll in 1930.  He remained at Maryknoll for the rest of his life.  Fr. Cotta wrote extensively on the defense of native clergy, and some of his arguments were incorporated into Pope Benedict XV's missionary encyclical "Maximum Illud."
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3691
title: Fr. Maurice Ahern and Soule altar boys group at Soule, China, 1929.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Ahern with the Siao Loc [now Soule] altar boys society.; Born in Illinois, Fr. Ahern graduated from DePaul University and entered Maryknoll in 1923. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1928 and was assigned to Kaying in South China. He worked among the youth in Kaying City. Illness made it necessary to transfer to Honolulu and Los Angeles. In 1948 he was re-assigned to the orient as assistant to the Procurator in Stanley, Hong Kong. He remained there for the next twelve years. Many missioners remember his kindness, especially for providing an opportunity to view American films overseas. He worked with young people and helped a number of refugees finding employment and educational opportunities. He was instrumental in aiding refugees to migrate to Borneo and Indonesia where they were able to find jobs and provide for their families.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3695
title: Rev. George A. Flick, MM,  playing a game with orphan boys at Chaoyangzhen, Manzhoukuo, China, 1939.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Flick "engaging his orphan boys in a game of 'King of the Hill', a few seconds later he was dethroned." One boy stands apart from the group as he looks straight into the camera.; Rev. Flick was born in Oswego, NY. After studying for two years at St. Michael's College in Toronto, he entered The Venard, Maryknoll's Apostolic College in 1929, and was ordained at Maryknoll, New York in 1935.  He was assigned that year to Fushun.  In 1942 he was repatriated aboard the refugee ship Gripsholm.  After a 3-year furlough working in the St. Augustine, FL diocese, he worked in Maryknoll's Bedford minor seminary.  In 1947 he returned to Manchuria.  When the Fushun mission had to be abandoned he was assigned to Kweilin (Guilin).  In 1950 he returned to the U.S.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3658
title: Practicing chants at Meixien, China, 1928.

description: This is a photograph of the "Plain Chant at the Seminary Cantors for Sunday." One person is playing a small piano with three younger men singing out of books. There is a map on the wall as well as pictures.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3659
title: Seminarians at the Maryknoll Seminary at Meixien, China, 1928.

description: This is a photograph of young seminarians at the Maryknoll Seminary at Kaying [now Meixien]. The boys are posing on the stairs to the dormitory.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3689
title: Fr. Maurice Ahern with children in Meixien, China, 1929.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Ahern with children from the Kaying [now Meixien] District.; Born in Illinois, Fr. Ahern graduated from DePaul University and entered Maryknoll in 1923. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1928 and was assigned to Kaying in South China. He worked among the youth in Kaying City. Illness made it necessary to transfer to Honolulu and Los Angeles. In 1948 he was re-assigned to the orient as assistant to the Procurator in Stanley, Hong Kong. He remained there for the next twelve years. Many missioners remember his kindness, especially for providing an opportunity to view American films overseas. He worked with young people and helped a number of refugees finding employment and educational opportunities. He was instrumental in aiding refugees to migrate to Borneo and Indonesia where they were able to find jobs and provide for their families.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3741
title: Frs. McDermott and Connors at Kowloon Procure., China, 1928.

description: This is a photograph of Frs. McDermott [left] and Connors [right] at the Kowloon Procure.; Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Connors was ordained to the priesthood in 1927 and was then assigned to Kongmoon, South China. After language study he was sent to assist in the Kochow Mission. While working there he visited the leprosarium at Sheklung. He was immediately attracted to the work which he was later to devote his life. He taught English at the Kochow Sacred Heart School and then assisted at Yeungkong. In 1933 he was assigned to the apostolate for lepers, a large colony of whom led a precarious existence in a cemetery outside Sunwui. He spent eleven years in China, five of them with victims of Hansen's disease.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3688
title: Fr. Maurice Ahern with a  wedding party in Soule, China, 1931.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Ahern with a newly wed couple in Siaoloc [now Soule]. Fr. Ahern stands in the doorway behind the couple who are dressed in traditional wedding clothing. There is an older woman next to the bride.; Born in Illinois, Fr. Ahern graduated from DePaul University and entered Maryknoll in 1923. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1928 and was assigned to Kaying in South China. He worked among the youth in Kaying City. Illness made it necessary to transfer to Honolulu and Los Angeles. In 1948 he was re-assigned to the orient as assistant to the Procurator in Stanley, Hong Kong. He remained there for the next twelve years. Many missioners remember his kindness, especially for providing an opportunity to view American films overseas. He worked with young people and helped a number of refugees finding employment and educational opportunities. He was instrumental in aiding refugees to migrate to Borneo and Indonesia where they were able to find jobs and provide for their families.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m3690
title: Fr. Maurice Ahern with children by a river at Meixien, China, ca.1929.

description: This is a photograph of Fr. Ahern with children by the river at Kaying [now Meixien] District. They are standing under a bridge with an arched shape.; Born in Illinois, Fr. Ahern graduated from DePaul University and entered Maryknoll in 1923. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1928 and was assigned to Kaying in South China. He worked among the youth in Kaying City. Illness made it necessary to transfer to Honolulu and Los Angeles. In 1948 he was re-assigned to the orient as assistant to the Procurator in Stanley, Hong Kong. He remained there for the next twelve years. Many missioners remember his kindness, especially for providing an opportunity to view American films overseas. He worked with young people and helped a number of refugees finding employment and educational opportunities. He was instrumental in aiding refugees to migrate to Borneo and Indonesia where they were able to find jobs and provide for their families.