Peter H.L. and Edith Chang papers, 1930s-2001

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Series IX: Photographs/系列九: 照片



Box 35 Folder 03 Photo Album, 18 page -36 photographs



Box 38 Folder 01 Photo Album, [n.p.] July 1950-1958, 48 page of photos


Box 38 Folder 02 Photos, [n.d.], Three separate photos in individual covers and three loose photos in plastic cover



Box 42 Envelope with 4 photos of Peter H. L. Chang and Edith Chang


Box 42 Envelope with three mounted and one loose photo of Peter H. L. Chang and wife


Box 42 Envelope with folder containing 7 photos of Peter H. L. Chang and wife


Box 42 Photo Album with 20 pages of pictures of Peter and Edith Chang and others


Box 42 Folder 1 Two photos of Edith Chang-one is black and white and possibly wedding picture


Box 42 Folder 2 One black and white photo possibly at summer palace with backing


Box 42 Box containing Photo Album with 40 pages of photos of the Changs



Box 43 One unidentified rolled up place photo (possibly Shenyang) with writing


Box 43 One Box with Photo Album with 19 pages of pictures of traditional photos of family and one inserted picture of Peter H. L. Chang[?] as youth in military uniform


Box 43 One large separate photo of Edith Chang



Box 44 One Envelope with 8 Christmas Photos in small paper Photo album, Los Angeles: December 24, 1988


Box 44 One Envelope with 62 loose family photos, North, Hollywood, California: March 11, 1988


Box 44 One Envelope with seven Family Photos


Box 44 Folder 1 One framed Photo with cover of Mr.. and Mrs.. Chun, [n. p. : April, 1966]

[Chang addressed to H. L. Chang and Edith Chang]


Box 44 Folder 1 One small photographic reproduction of Huang Shan, [n. p. : April, 1993]

[landscape]


Box 44 Folder 2 One small envelope with 6 photos at Columbia-3 at Butler Library. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York: October, 1996


Box 44 One Envelope with 42 loose photos, [v.p.] including Dalien, Chima: May-November , 1995


Box 44 Five separate attached photos-three of the family and two of buildings in pre-1949 China., Shenyang [?], [ n. d.]


Box 44 Two mounted photos of Peter H. L. Chang-one attached to the back of the other



Box 45 Photo Album With 25 pages of Photos Commemorating L. Chang's 90th. Birthday


Box 45 Photo Album with 53 pages of Photos and Calligraphy Celebrating Peter H. L. Chang's 90th. Birthday


Box 45 Photo album with 54 pages of photos and calligraphy Celebrating Peter H. L. Chang's 90th. Birthday-almost all in China and some of historic interest



Box 46 1975



Box 47 1970-1985



Box 48 1975



Box 49 1976



Box 50 1997



Box 51 1978-1979



Box 52 1984-1985



Box 53 1986



Box 54 1980



Box 55 1987



Box 56 1983



Box 57 1982



Box 58 1981



Box 59 1963-1969



Box 60 1988



Box 61 1989



Box 62 1994



Box 63 1991



Box 64 1992-1993



Box 65 1996-1998



Box 66 1995



Box 67 1994



Box 68 1978-1979, 1982-1984, 1989, 1978-1979, 1982-1984, 1989



Box 69 At Northwest University and Hometown



Box 70 1992



Box 71 Albums (6):, 1969-1970



Box 72 Albums (11): 1990s and undated, 1990s, undated



Box 73 1930s-1950s



Box 74 Albums (8):, 1971



Box 75 Albums (10):, 1940s-1965



Box 76 Albums (6):, 1940s-1965



Box 77 Albums (7):, 1969-1970



Box 78 Albums (4):, 1971-1972



Box 79 Albums (8):, 1966-1967



Box 80 Albums (6):, 1973-1974



Box 81 Albums (1):, 1997



Box 82 Negatives: 1964-1965, 1973-1974, undated, 1964-1965, 1973-1974, undated



Box 83 Negatives:, 1976-1980



Box 84 Negatives:, 1981-1990



Box 85 Slides: 1943-1949, 1962-1968, 1943-1949, 1962-1968



Box 86 Slides: 1941-1942, 1961-1968, 1941-1942, 1961-1968



Box 87 Slides:, 1961-1966



Box 90 1960s-1990s, undated, 1960s-1990s, undated



Box 93 Albums (4):, 1967-1968



Box 94 1990



Mapcase 14-L-1 Two separate mounted photos of Chang, Peter H. L. and Edith Chang [n.p., n.d.]


Mapcase 14-L-1 Two separate of H. L. Chang and of H. L. Chang and Edith Chang together in Hawaii. [n. p. : 1992]



Box 44 Elder Family Photographs of Peter H.L. Chang and Edith Chang, 1918-1970, 13 photographs

Gift of the James C. Edler and Tania Elder Family and the Reginald Mitchell and Jean Elder Mitchell Family, 2023.

The following are the captions on each photograph:

Photo taken in Taipei, Taiwan (Then known as Formosa), 1970. Lto R- Edith Chang (Vi di Chao), wife of the Young Marshal Chang Hsiao Liang; Tania Elder, wife of Jim Elder; and the Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang, then know by his Christian name, Peter Chang. At the time this photo was taken, the Young Marshal was under "House Arrest" confined to his home except in the company of a Nationalist Chinese military officer by orders of Chiang Kai Shek dating back to the Sian Incident in December, 1936. Chang's house arrest finally ended in 1991 after the death of both Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Kai Shek's son.

Photo taken in the Young Marshal's in-town office, Mukden, Manchuria, June, 1929. Bottom row, far right, the Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang; bottom row center, Jim Elder; top row second from left Will Rogers, film and Broadway actor and commentator and an admirer of the Young Marshal as a humanitarian leader whose most important goal was the betterment of the Chinese people. Others in the photo are members of Chang's civilian government in Manchuria (finance, economy, rail transportation) that lasted until the Japanese Kwantung Army invasion of Mukden in September, 1931.

Photo taken in Taipei, Taiwan, (Then known as Formosa), 1964, at the time of the Young Marshal's wedding. L to R - Minister presiding; Edith Chang, wife of the Young Marshal Chang Hsiao Liang; Young Marshal then known as Peter Chang after his conversion to Christianity. At the time this photo was taken, the Young Marshal was under "House Arrest" confined to his home except in the company of a Chinese Nationalist military officer by orders of Chiang Kai Shek dating back to the Sian Incident in December, 1936. Chang's house arrest finally ended in 1991 after the death of both Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Kai Shek's son.

Photo of Bobby Chang, son of the Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang, and Edith. Photo taken in California, where Bobby grew up from childhood and was raised by Monte and Mildred Cochran in La Jolla. Monte was the Young Marshal's banker with National City Bank in New York and close friend of Jim Elder and the Young Marshal.

Photo upper left taken in La Jolla, California, c.1957. L to R - Monte Cochran, the Young Marshal's banker with National City Bank in New York; Bobby Chang, son of the Young Marshal and Edith; Jim Elder; Raymond Chang, son of the Young Marshal and his first wife, Yu Feng Tze. At the Young Marshal's direction, Jim Elder managed Chang Hsiao Liang's finances at National City Bank through Monte Cochran, a senior officer of NCB and served as the Marshal's personal liaison with his family ever since his house arrest by Chiang Kai Shek dating back to the Sian Incident in 1936. In accordance with Chang Hsiao Liang's wishes, Jim was instrumental in ensuring that finances from the Marshal's account at NCB were being provided to the Marshal's first wife, Yu Feng Te, and the Marshal's children, all of whom were living in California. Other three photos taken at the same location and time with the same four persons.

Photo taken in the Young Marshal's in-town office, Mukden, Manchuria, November, 1928, following the assassination of the Young Marshal's father, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, in June, 1928. Bottom row left, the Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang, seated next to his senior general, Gordon Chu; Standing on the far right is Jim Elder, childhood close friend and lifetime confident and advisor to the Young Marshal; Standing on the far left is Chang's Air Force Commander in charge of the Young Marshal's squadrons of WW-1 vintage French Breguet-19 bi-wing fighters at the East Pagoda Aerodrome near Mukden. Others in the photo are officials in Chang's civilian government in Manchuria that lasted until the invasion of Mukden by the Japanese Kwantung Army in September, 1931.

Photo taken in Taipei, Taiwan (Then known as Formosa), 1964, at the time of the Young Marshal's wedding. L to R - The Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang (then known as Peter Chang after his conversion to Christianity); Edith Chang (Vi di Chao), wife of the Young Marshal. At the time this photo was taken, the Young Marshal was under "House Arrest" confined to his home except in the company of a military officer by orders of Chiang Kai Shek dating back to the Sian Incident in December, 1936. Chang's house arrest finally ended in 1991 after the death of both Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Kai Shek's son.

Photo taken in Taipei, Taiwan (Then known as Formosa), 1976, given to Tania Elder as a gift in memory of the deep and lasting loyal friendship between the Elder family and the Chang family . L to R - Edith Chang (Vi di Chao), wife of the Young Marshal; The Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang, ( then known as Peter Chang after his conversion to Christianity ). At the time this photo was taken, the Young Marshal was under "House Arrest" confined to his home except in the company of a military officer by orders of Chiang Kai Shek dating back to the San Incident in December, 1936. Chang's house arrest finally ended in 1991 after the death of both Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Kai Shek's son.

Photo taken in Taipei, Taiwan (Then known as Formosa) at the Young Marshal's wedding celebrating with wedding cake. L to R - Young Marshal Chang Hsiao Liang (then know by his Christian name, Peter Chang); Tania (Mrs. James C. Elder); Edith Chang (Vi di Chao), wife of the Young Marshal; and Jim Elder. At the time this photo was taken, the Young Marshal was under "House Arrest" confined to his home except in the company of a military officer by orders of Chiang Kai Shek dating back to the Sian Incident in December, 1936. Chang's house arrest finally ended in 1991 after the death of both Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Kai Shek's son.

Photo taken at the Hwangkutun village, Mukden, Manchuria, rail terminal of the Peking-Mukden Line, 1912. L to R - Jim Elder, age 9, Young Marshal, Chang Liang (Han Chen, his courtesy name), age 11; and Hugh Elder, Jim Elder's father. Hugh was the Manager of the Tientsin- Hwangkutun segment of the PML and became the confident and advisor to the Young Marshal's father, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria and the most influential and powerful warlord in all of China between 1916 and 1928. The PM terminated in Hwangkutun since the remaining three miles of track into Mukden was owned and operated by the Japanese as the South Manchurian Railway under their Concession conglomerate, Mantetsu.

Photo of Young Marshal, Chang Hsiao Liang, age 17 at Mukden Military Academy, Mukden, Manchuria, 1918.

Invitation from Chang Hsiao Liang to the Elder family sent via the British Club (also known as the Mukden Club) to the Young Marshal's supper dance at his Peiling estate, Mukden, on October 10, 1930, in honor of National Day, 19th Year of the Republic. "Madame Chiang Hsiao Liang" refers to Yu Feng Tze, the Young Marshal's wife, since he couldn't marry Edith until Yu Feng Te finally gave him permission to do so in 1976.

Photograph of Jim Edler and the Young Marshal.