Text transcribed from caption: #S-4540 MASS MEETING HONORS MISSIONARIES SAN FRANCISCO -- Temporarily stranded here by the shipping strike, 400 missionaries bound for the Orient crowd the stage of the Opera House during a mass-meeting held in their honor. More than 3,000 persons attended the meeting, which was addressed by Henry R. Luce, editor of Time, Life and Fortune magazines, and other outstanding in public life. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AC-NY-MES-9C-6-W)

Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)

1946

still image

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Grand Opera House (San Francisco, Calif.)
Luce, Henry R., 1898-1967.

Labor disputes--California--San Francisco.
Meetings--California--San Francisco.
Missionaries--California--San Francisco.
Missions--Asia.

California
San Francisco.
Asia.
San Francisco (Calif.)
North and Central America--United States--California--San Francisco--San Francisco

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. S-4540; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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