Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mr. and Mrs. Kiang stand on the train platform, Mrs. Kiang holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand while Deson and Mrs. Sze stand on the steps of the train above them. Photograph appears with the article, "Wife of Nanking's Envoy To America Visits City," Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct 1935: A12. Deson graduated from Cambridge University in 1933. He, along with his mother, wife of the Chinese Ambassador Alfred Sze, are passing through Los Angeles on their way to San Francisco to eventually board the S.S. President Pierce for China. Handwritten on negative: Yi-Seng S Kiang Mme Alfred Sze Deson Sze Mme Kiang Text from negative sleeve: 2518 - Mme Alfred Sze Deson Sze (son) Yi-Seng S. Kiang Mme Kiang Wife of Chinese ambassador at Washington 10/16/35 [stamped:] Oct 23 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Homeward bound, Deson Sze, son of the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, and his mother, Mme. Alfred Sze, above, passed through Los Angeles. They were greeted by Yi-seng S. Kiang, Vice-Consul here, and Mrs. Kiang.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8983 ark:/21198/zz002dgzm5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles Sons--Chinese--California--Los Angeles Bouquets Consuls--Chinese--California--Los Angeles Foreign visitors--Chinese--California Travel--California--Los Angeles Spouses--California--Los Angeles Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles Alumni--California--Los Angeles Mothers--California--Los Angeles Kiang, Yi-seng, b. 1908 Kiang, Chang Sze, Deson C Tang, Yu-hua "Alice
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