Title: [Tingfu Tsiang photograph collection]
Authors: Tsiang, Tingfu F. 1895-1965; Rosenthal, Leo, 1884-1969,
Year: 1948
Subjects: Tsiang, Tingfu F.; United Nations; Diplomats Taiwan.; Taiwan Foreign relations.; United States Foreign relations Taiwan.
Abstract: News and publicity photographs provide a visual record of Tingfu Tsiang’s diplomatic service for the Republic of China from his appointment to the United Nations until his death in 1965. Images show Tsiang and his wife with world leaders, diplomats, politicians, military officers, and prominent businessmen from the United States and other nations, including President Lyndon Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Henry Cabot Lodge, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Barry Goldwater, J. William Fulbright, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Dewey, Dag Hammarskjold, Abba Eban of Israel, Prince Aly Khan of Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia's Prince Faisal. The photographs document UN sessions, meetings, presentations, awards ceremonies, dinner parties, and receptions, including many held at the Twin Oaks estate in Washington, D.C., the residence of Republic of China ambassadors to the U.S. Of special note are photographs of Tsiang appearing on the television news show Meet the Press; signing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; hosting receptions at Twin Oaks to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China; and meeting with President John F. Kennedy in the White House, Sept. 11, 1963, during a state visit by General Chiang Ching-Kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Included are many photographs by UN photographer Leo Rosenthal, who worked as a court reporter for various newspapers and secretly photographed trials in Weimar Berlin before he fled Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in 1933.