Abstract

Albert Weimer Bash of Port Townsend, Washington, was involved in the development of a scheme to extend U.S. railway lines across the Pacific Ocean and on through mainland China between 1895 and 1912 and was associated with the American China Development Company and the China Investment and Construction Company. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, maps, clippings, publications and papers.

Abstract Largely comprised of newspaper clippings from English-language newspapers from the People's Republic of China, 1987-1990, which focus on political and economic questions and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Also includes general books and pamphlets on Chinese education, culture, politics, economics, and business, maps, and similar material collected by an American couple living and teaching for four years in China. The most important materials are several fragmented posters with large...

Abstract

Stella Lilly (1890-1986) was an English teacher at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington, from 1921 until her retirement in 1959. The Stella Lilly papers contain periodicals, maps and pamphlets collected by Lilly during a 1937 trip to the 7th World Education Conference in Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract Frank Williston was a specialist in Far Eastern affairs, particularly Japan and China, who taught at the College of Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) before World War II. This collection contains materials on the political, historical and economic conditions in China, Japan, Manchuria, Malaya, Burma, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. It also contains correspondence pertaining to the Nanking Theological Seminary during the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937. The...