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Description
Wong My, a student in the Chinese Sunday School at South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, poses for a portrait.
The Second Parish Presbyterian Church opened a Chinese Sunday School in the 1880s and Portland's First Baptist Church held a similar school from 1902 into the 1950s.
About This Item
- Title: Wong My, Augusta, ca. 1890
- Creator: Ayer
- Creation Date: circa 1890
- Subject Date: circa 1890
- Location: Augusta, Kennebec County, ME
- Media: Photograph
- Dimensions: 16 cm x 11 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2112; Box 1 Vol. 2
- Collection: Wilma E. Perkins Barbour Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Chinese Americans--Maine--Augusta
- Chinese--United States--Maine--Augusta
- Church work with immigrants
- Churches--Maine--Augusta
- Immigrants--United States--Maine--Augusta
- My, Wong--Portrait photographs
- Religious education--Maine--Augusta
- South Parish Congregatioal Church (Augusta, Me.)
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