Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien papers, 1910s-2018, bulk 1932-1999

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Series II: Kia Chi Tsien


Sub-Series II.1: Forms, Affidavit, Certificate


Passports and Entry Permits



Box 3 Folder 12 Republic of China Passport, circa 1940s

Kia Chi Tsien's passport used to leave China in 1944


Box 3 Folder 13 International Certificate of Vaccination, 1967-1977


Box 3 Folder 14 People's Republic of China Passport, 1976


Box 3 Folder 15 Permit to Reenter the United States, Immigration and Naturalization Service (2), 1979, 1980


Box 3 Folder 16 United States Passports (2), 1981, 1986



Box 4 Folder 1 Certificate of Preventive Inoculation, 1944 April


Box 4 Folder 2 Consulado General de Mexico, 1947 October 31



Box 29 Folder 18 Visa Application, France, 1952 April 7



Box 4 Folder 3 Employment Permission Notice, US, 1953 March 31


Box 4 Folder 4 Affidavit, United Nations Affiliate, 1958, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1974


Box 4 Folder 5 Application Form for Chinese Passport Endorsement, Consulate General of the Republic of China, 1965 April


Box 4 Folder 6 British Consulate General, Visa issurance Notice, 1965 July 16


Box 4 Folder 7 Laissez-Passer, Consulate General de France a New York, 1967, 1970, 1972


Box 4 Folder 8 Declaration of Identity for Visa Purposes, British Consulate-General, 1970


Box 4 Folder 9 Certificate of Marriage, Consulate General of the Republic of China, Photocopy, 1973 January


Box 4 Folder 10 Passport Application forms, People's Republic of China, 1978 May


Box 4 Folder 11 United Nations Travel Authorization, 1978 May


Box 4 Folder 12 Salvoconducto, Spain, 1979 May


Box 4 Folder 13 Application to File Petition for Naturalization, 1979 February


Box 4 Folder 14 Immigrant Visa Peititon, United States, undated


Box 4 Folder 15 Certificate of Naturalization, United States, 1981 May 13


Box 4 Folder 16 Congratulatory Letter from Hugh L. Carey, Governor, 1982 January 22


Sub-Series II.2: Career & Personal Files


Box 4 Folder 17 Business Cards & IDs, 1950s-1980s


Box 4 Folder 18 Photographs, Portraits, High school & University Graduations, 1935-1938

南模中学


Box 4 Folder 19 Photograph, Graduation, Chiao Tung University, circa 1939

Jiaotong University/交通大學


Transcript of Record/畢業成績證明書, Chiao Tung University, Nanyang College



Box 29 Folder 19 1939 June



Box 4 Folder 20 1943


Graduation Certificate/畢業證明書, Chiao Tung University


Box 4 Folder 21 1939


Box 4 Folder 22 1941 July


Box 4 Folder 23 1943 November


Employment through World War II


Box 4 Folder 24 Military Services Employment Letter/軍內政部戰時衛生人員聯合訓練所委令, 1940 March


Box 4 Folder 25 Kwei Yang National Medical School Employment Letter/國立貴陽醫學院, 1940 March


Box 4 Folder 26 Chiao Tung Univeersity, Kwei Yang, Employment Letter/國立交通大學貴州分校, 1942 April

Hired as Association Professor of Physics


Box 4 Folder 27 The Great China University Employment Letter/大夏大學, 1942 July


Box 4 Folder 28 Military Services Employment Letter/軍內政部戰時衛生人員訓練所訓令, 1942 September


Box 4 Folder 29 Employment Letters & Graduate Certificate, Photocopies, 1939-1943

大夏大學,國立貴陽醫學院,軍内政部戰時衛生人員訓練所,交通大學(畢業)



Box 29 Folder 30 Atomic Energy, Radiological Sciences Positions in Chinese Governmental Entities, 1939-1944

中英科學合作館,行政院原子能委員會,中華民國紅十字會總會救護總隊部,軍政部戰時衛生人員訓練所,交通部川桂公路運輸局



Box 4 Folder 30 Bank Draft Issued by Ta Kung Pao/大公报, undated


University of Cambridge


Box 4 Folder 31 Letter from Sino-British Cultural Association, 1944 March 28


Box 4 Folder 32 Certificate, Kia Chi Tsien as Honorary Associate of the British Council Cultural Scientific Office, 1944 April 17


Box 4 Folder 33 Admission Letter, University of Cambridge, 1944 October 25


Box 4 Folder 34 Resident Members of the University, University of Cambridge, 1944


Box 4 Folder 35 Miscellaneous Ephemera, University of Cambridge, 1943-1944


Box 4 Folder 36 Quantum Mechanics Notes, 1944 October


Box 4 Folder 37 Letters from the British Council, 1944-1945

Scholarship to Cambridge


Box 4 Folder 38 Departmental Transfer Approval Letter, Univeristy of Cambridge, 1945 May 31

From Faculty of Mathematics to Faculty of Physics and Chemistry


Box 4 Folder 39 Certificate, Kia Chi Tsien as Research Student in King's College, University of Cambridge, 1945 October 20


Box 4 Folder 40 Notes and Letters on Kia Chi Tsien's Matriculation Status, University of Cambridge, 1944-1945


Career in Visual Education


Box 4 Folder 41 Letters with Mary Beattie Brady, Harmon Foundation, 1946 February


Box 4 Folder 42 Training Certificate, Bell and Howell Company, 1947 July


Box 4 Folder 43 Personal Statement to UNESCO, undated


Box 4 Folder 44 Fax, Appointment as Technical Expert, Second UNESCO Conference, 1947 October 28


Box 4 Folder 45 Receipt, Stock from 人人企業, 1948 January


Box 4 Folder 46 Alien Registration Card, Employment Authorization, United States, 1953


Box 4 Folder 47 Proof of Employment, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, 1956 November 2


Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital


Box 4 Folder 48 Proof of Employment, 1957 October 15


Box 4 Folder 49 Letters of Reappointment and Resignation, 1961-1976



Box 29 Folder 31 Clipping, China News, Kia Chi Tsien at National Tsinghua Atomic Research Institute, Hsinchu, 1958 June 30


Box 29 Folder 32 Clippings, 中央日報, Kia Chi Tsien at National Tsinghua Atomic Research Institute, Hsinchu, 1958 June



Box 4 Folder 50 Clipping, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, 1963

Features photo of Kia Chi Tsien


Physics Associations


Box 4 Folder 51 Honorary Mention Certificate, The Radiological Society of North America, 1954, 1965, 1971



Box 29 Folder 33 Correspondences, International Atomic Energy Agency, 1957-1967



Box 34 Folder 1 Clipping, Wiener Illustrierte, Kia Chi Tsien at International Atomic Energy Agency, 1960 February 20



Box 4 Folder 52 Membership Certificate, The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1960 December 4


Box 4 Folder 53 10th International Congress of Radiology, Montreal, 1962 August



Box 29 Folder 34 Membership Certificate, VIII Congreso Interamericano de Radiologia, 1964



Box 4 Folder 54 Membership Certificate, American Radium Society, 1966 April 14


Box 4 Folder 55 Application to Department of Radiology, Downstate Medical Center, NY, 1970 April


Publications


Box 4 Folder 56 Collected Articles of Kia Chi Tsien, Bounded, 1955-1973


Box 4 Folder 57 Medical Information and Computers, 1972 December

Nancy Olson and Kia Chi Tsien, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York



Box 5 Folder 1 Clippings, Kia Chi Tsien in Radiology, 1967, 1984


Box 5 Folder 2 Certificate of Marriage and Status, Consulate General of the Republic of China, Photocopy, 1973


Box 5 Folder 3 Letter from Chinese Medical Association, Shanghai Branch/中华医学会上海分会, 1980 November 27


Photography Exhibition Fliers and Invitations


Box 5 Folder 4 Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, 1990

Exhibitions: Nudes: Experiment in Seeing (1990), Mainly Eggs (1990)


Box 5 Folder 5 United Nations Staff Recreation Council, Camera Club, 1990-1992

Exhibitions: Images de Fenetres (1990), Mainly Eggs (1991), Moments in Life (1992)


Box 5 Folder 6 Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York, 1991 April

Exhibition: Images From Around the World (1991)


Box 5 Folder 7 Kia Chi Tsien Photo Exhibition Annoucements and Invitations, Bounded, 1990-1993


Box 5 Folder 8 Photograph, Kia Chi Tsien, Lily Tsien Sze, Juliana Young Koo, 1991


Box 5 Folder 9 Photograph, Kia Chi Tsien and Granddaughter Nicole Yuan, at the Funeral of Hui-lan Oei Koo, 1992



Box 29 Folder 35 Letter from the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, 1993 February 22



Box 5 Folder 10 Kia Chi Tsien's Recipes, Clippings, undated


Box 5 Folder 11 Fortunetelling/Divination Notes, undated


Sub-Series II.3: Obituaries and Articles about Kia Chi Tsien


Box 5 Folder 12 Certificate of Death, 1993 June 16


Obituaries


Box 5 Folder 13 世界日報, 1993 June 16


Box 5 Folder 14 New York Times, 1993 June 17, 20


Box 5 Folder 15 聯合日報, 1993 June 18-19


Box 5 Folder 16 天津日報, 1993 July 5


Box 5 Folder 17 上海交大报, 1993 September 20


Box 5 Folder 18 Invitation to Memorial, 1993 June


Eurologies and Remarks


Box 5 Folder 19 Dr. Ding, 1993


Box 5 Folder 20 The Rev. Kurt Hart, 1993


Box 5 Folder 21 Michael Tsien, 1993


Box 5 Folder 22 Fu-Chiang Wong/汪復強, 1993 October 28


Box 5 Folder 23 Robert Yuan, 1993


Box 5 Folder 24 Biography of Kia Chi Tsien, Written by Patricia Koo Tsien, 1993

Includes an updated CV


Sub-Series II.4: Tsien Family History Research


Box 5 Folder 25 Design of Tsien Family Seal, undated


Box 5 Folder 26 Kia Chi Tsien Grandfather's Writings, Photocopy, undated



Box 29 Folder 36 Tsien Family Tree, Reference Materials, undated



Box 5 Folder 27 Family Member Biographies, Written by Jiacheng Qian/钱家成, 2016 August


Box 5 Folder 28 Biographies of Tsien Family Members, Chinese, undated


Box 5 Folder 29 Tsien Family Lineage in Jiashan/嘉善錢氏, Reference Materials, undated



Box 34 Folder 2 錢氏家乘, Photocopy, undated