File:Men With Leopard At The Dongan Mission, China (1932) Fr. Otto Rauschenbach (RESTORED) (4179968326).jpg

Entitled: Men With Leopard At The Dongan Mission, China [1932] Fr. O Rauschenbach [RESTORED] Minor spot removal, image size doubled, tonal and contrast adjustments. minor edge restoration, a Sepia and then fake Blue - Yellow Duotone.

This image was found on the University Of Southern California Library's Internet Mission Photography Archives. The following is from their title page:

"The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean. The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development."

Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa/controller/index.htm

According to their information about this image:

"This is a photograph of a group of five men proudly displaying the leopard they shot in the mission compound at Dongan (Note: now known as Yunfu 云浮). It was the second leopard shot on the compound and it weighed 66 lbs."

Further, about the sad fate of the photographer, who was in China as a Clergyman:

"Born in Missouri, Fr. Rauschenbach entered Maryknoll in 1918 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 15, 1924. He was assigned to South China, where he spent the next twenty-one years in Maryknoll's Kongmoon Vicariate. Fr. Otto used dispensaries and radio broadcasts to interest people in Christ's message. He was also responsible for many buildings, including the compound at Nanfau and hospital at Toishan. During World War II, while the entire Kongmoon Territory was encircled by the Japanese, Fr. Otto remained with his people during their time of need. On May 14, 1945, he was killed by bandits while ministering to the Christians in the area."