Aerial view of the California Institute of Technology in 1944
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1944
Atlas Xu
Pasadena, California
West Point World War II Map
A 1944 map showing Japanese occupation of eastern China. Kunming is at the Southwest corner of the map. The map is believed to have been included in The West Point Atlas of American Wars, vol. II, 1900-1953, edited by Colonel Vincent Esposito, published by the Department of Military Art and Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1959.
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the Department of Military Art and Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
December 1944
Atlas Xu
East Asia
A Monoplane Designed by Chieh-Chien Chang
A monoplane designed by Chieh Chien Chang and Yin Wenyou. Tsinghua University’s Grand Auditorum is in the background.
Tsinghua University
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1936
Atlas Xu
Beiping (now Beijing), China
Tsinghua University in 1930
Glass lantern slide, "Ch'ing Hua College", Tsinghua University in parkland, hand coloured glass / paper, maker unknown, China / Australia, c.1930
Hand colored glass lantern slide showing the parkland of Tsinghua University in Peking. The building on the left is the Hall of Science while the building with a dome in the background is the Hall of Tsinghua which is often referred as the landmark of Tsinghua University.
<a href="https://collection.maas.museum/object/324264" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Austrialia</a>
According to the original catalog record, this image belonged to a box of lantern slides that was given to the Australia-China Society by the Methodist Church at the time they joined the Uniting Church of Australia in 1977.
circa 1930
Atlas Xu
Beiping (now Beijing), China
Japanese Troops in Manchuria
Japanese troops in an unidentified city in northeastern China, circa September to October 1931. Notice the Chinese street signs and the Japanese national and military flags.
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C. Peter Chan
1931
Atlas Xu
An unidentified city in northeastern China
The Northeastern University of China
circa 1920s
Atlas Xu
Fengtian (now Shenyang city), China
Portrait of General Zhang Zuolin
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between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925
Atlas Xu
Xi'an County Town Center
A 1930s picture taken by a Japanese photographer shows Xi’an county’s town center (today part of Liaoyuan city, Jilin Province), which was the nearest town to Dr. Chang’s home village. Notice the bilingual billboard in the middle, which juxtaposes Japanese (right) and Chinese (left) characters for Japan’s allegedly blood-fortifying tonic “Blutose,” a subtler sign of the country’s dominance in Manchuria.
1930s
Atlas Xu
Xi'an County, Fengtian Province, Machuria (now part of Liaoyuan city, Jilin Province), China.
A 1908 Map of East Asia
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1908
Atlas Xu
Dr. Chang with the Tornado Machine in the Backdrop
The Catholic University of America
circa 1969
Atlas Xu
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC