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Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6126
Abstract
The collection consists of approximately 550 photographs, primarily black and white, of Rosalie Arzooni, immediate family, and friends. Arzooni's family left Latvia before the Holocaust, settled in Shanghai, and ultimately emigrated to Israel. The bulk of the photographs depict Rosalie and the family in Israel, with a few images taken during their sojourn in China. These include a number of images of Rosalie (born February 14, 1940) as a child, when she attended the Shanghai Jewish school...
Dates:
1930s-1960s
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6159
Abstract
Notebook pages listing each of the Chinese paper gods, in both Chinese and English transliteration, with information about each god and notes by Miss Boyington on her research into each god. Some listings contain mutliple pages of information, others contain only the name of the god.
Dates:
circa 1940
Collection
Identifier: 5099
Abstract
This collection contains the production and research files associated with the California Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda’s television program Communism: myth vs reality (1962).
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6088
Abstract
The Arthur de Carvalho photographs consist of images of sculpture, temples, landscapes, and people, taken in China and India, by Dr. de Carvalho.
Dates:
circa 1930s
Collection
Identifier: 6241
Abstract
A collection of videos and a scrapbook relating to Katherine Sui Fun Cheung (1904-2003), the first Chinese woman to obtain an international flying license. The scrapbook was created by Cheung and her daughter Dorothy Leschenko and consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, copies of certificates and articles, and programs from air shows and other events documenting the life of Katherine Sui Fun Cheung. Cheung immigrated to the United States from China in 1921. After studying music at...
Dates:
1932 - 2016
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3376
Scope and Contents
The collection of Chinese posters consists of approximately 43 posters, including a few duplicates, advertising both Chinese and Western products. Many of the posters date from the 1920s and were printed in China by the Shanghai Commercial Press (Shanghai shang wu yin shu guan or 上海商务印书馆). The collection also includes 12 calendars featuring art by various Chinese artists, including Zheng Mantuo. One of the calendars is signed by Zheng Mantuo. The commercial posters advertise various...
Dates:
1915 - 1930; Majority of material found within 1920s
Collection
Identifier: 3334
Abstract
A collection of 32 public health posters on COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) published in China during 2020. The posters appear to be government-issued propaganda, advocating for unity and shared responsibility and featuring images of heroic labor figures, families, and medical workers coming together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The posters do not identify a specific issuing agency. Some of the posters reference Wuhan, China. Almost all of the text on the posters is in Chinese....
Dates:
2020
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058425159]
Identifier: 3362
Abstract
This collection consists of Chinese art prints and calendars from 1971-1973.
Dates:
1971 - 1973
Collection
Identifier: 3016
Abstract
This collection consists of files, photographs and audio recordings relating to the research and teaching career of military historian Alvin Coox (1924-1999), particularly pertaining to the 1939 Battle of Nomonhan between Japan and the Soviet Union.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1990s
Collection
Identifier: 3316
Abstract
This collection chiefly contains travel diaries and correspondence reflecting the trips of American hydraulic engineering professor James W. Daily (1913-1991) and his wife, Sarah A. Daily (1915-2009), to the People's Republic of China in 1974 and 1979, as well as a visit by Sarah in 1994. Also included are letters from Carr Chia-Chang Liang, a Caltech student in the late 1930s, that chronicle his trip back to and conditions in wartime China in the early 1940s.
Dates:
1940 - 1994