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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0882]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The widow of Gen. Claire L. Chennault of the famous Flying Tigers will open the Sooner Dinner Club's fall lecture series at 7 PM Thursday in the Skirvin Tower Hotel Persian Room. Mrs. Anna Chennault, historian and speaker, will lecture to the club on "The Crisis in Viet Nam." The former Anna Chan, Mrs. Chennault came from a wealthy and distinguished Chinese family. She was graduated from Ling Nan University in 1944."
Date: October 18, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0913]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the American Volunteer Group, the famed Flying Tigers in China, recently visited Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek at Kunming. Building back of them is covered with camouflage paint."
Date: June 5, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0094.0367]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "U.S. Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block samples the freshly-made donuts with Sung Ziwen, minister of Light Industry, during a tour Sunday of Peiking's Yili Bakery."
Date: 1981
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0010]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Defenders of the Burma road battled Wednesday in gales of approaching monsoons to hold open the door to China. At left American-made airplane wing rides the road, center."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0017]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Canton Christian College is in the center of Canton, the Chinese sore spot, where anti-foreign demonstrations and outbursts have assumed serious proportions."
Date: June 24, 1925
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0018]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Over 2000 Cantonese and Russians were reported killed in Canton, China, Dec. 11 1927, during the suppression of the Communist uprisings by the military forces of China."
Date: January 12, 1928
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0035]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the subterranean printing plant of TA Kung Pao, one of China's most famed newspapers, which is continuing publication despite repeated bombardments by the Japanese."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0041]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Americans and British at Foochow, China, suffered severely during the anti-foreign riots Jan. 16th, with women being beaten and dragged thru the streets."
Date: January 18, 1927
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0042]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Americans and British at Foochow, China, suffered severely during the anti-foreign riots Jan., 16th, and even women were dragged thru the streets by the raiders."
Date: January 18, 1927
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0047]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pending the arrival of British warships, British volunteers went on duty in foreign concession in Hankow, China, scene of bitter anti-foreign rioting, while their women and children fled to more neutral zones."
Date: January 15, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0052]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Chinese and Eastern Railway station at Harbin, Manchuria. This city is in a vital position with regard to the trouble now brewing between China and Russia. The city is under martial law and the streets are crowded with soldiers."
Date: July 19, 1929
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0077]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ancient rice paddies extend to the water front of Tien Lake contrasting with the Kunming, China, Serological Institute's new home(right)."
Date: January 31, 1944
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0078]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Kunming, China, Bank Building (above) is one of the newest and largest structures in the war busy boomtown capital of Yunnan province."
Date: January 31, 1944
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0081]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "British and American gunboats at Nanking on March 24th, laid down a barrage to protect a small band of foreigners who took refuge from riotous Cantonese soldiers on standard Oil Hill, Nanking."
Date: March 24, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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