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Collection Overview

Title: Arlene E. Luchsinger Papers, 1983

ID: 97/1/84

Primary Creator: Luchsinger, Arlene E. (1937-2019)

Extent: 0.9 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Original order - Alphabetical by topic/format

Date Acquired: 11/19/2021

Subjects: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Chapters (ACRL), China, China-Libraries, Photographs, University Libraries

Languages: English, Chinese

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The papers of Arlene E. Luchsinger relating to the ACRL's Greater New York Metropolitan Chapter's China Library Conference Trip (July 1-24, 1983), including itinerary and trip information, diary with details of the trip and Chinese library visits, typewritten notes from the diary, personal correspondence, postcards, slides of tourist activities and Chinese libraries, a scrapbook of mementos, and souvenirs. Also contains a CV and biographical information on Luchsinger.

Sildes of the trip include images of Hong Kong; Beijing Zoo and pandas; the Summer Palace; US Embassy; Red Square; Forbidden City; Great Wall; Temple of Heaven; Beijing observatory; Beijing; Arlene E. Luchsinger; terra cotta figures; Chinese citizens and children; Yangzi River; Chang Jiang bridge; banquets; Shanghai station; West Lake; Six Harmonies Pagoda; tea plantation; Yellow Dragon (Huanglong) Cave; Lingyin Temple and Monastery; Madam Chiang-Kai Shek's home; Jade Spring Pagoda; Ming Tomb; bonsai exhibit; Hangzhou Botanical Garden; Yu Yuan Garden; Huangpu River; Shanghai; Children's Palace; street scenes and markets; Li Jiang River; Guilin; Beijing University Library; National Library of China; Nanjing University Library; and Shanghai Library.

Several items and descriptions use older romanization styles for Chinese cities and places to reflect and match the original slides and descriptions written by Arlene Luchsinger in the 1980s.

Biographical Note

Arlene Edith Luchsinger was born on May 7, 1937, in Elkhart, Kansas. Luchsinger received a B.A. in botany at the University of Kansas (1958), a M.S. in botany at Kansas State University (1963), and a masters of arts in library science from the University of Michigan (1965). She taught science in Ohio before working in libraries at the University of the South, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia, where she became Assistant Director for Branch Libraries, and Head, Science Library. Luchsinger was a member of the American Library Association and its divisions the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Library Administration Management Association, and was a part of the Georgia Library Association. She relocated to Terre Haute, Indiana, where she lived until her death on January 23, 2019.

Subject/Index Terms

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Chapters (ACRL)
China
China-Libraries
Photographs
University Libraries

Administrative Information

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Acquisition Source: Caroline Gilson

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URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/9701084a.pdf

PDF finding aid for Arlene E. Luchsinger Papers (97/1/84)

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Biographical Information],
[Series 2: Trip to China - Papers],
[Series 3: Trip to China - Slides],
[Series 4: Oversized Materials],
[All]

Series 1: Biographical Information

Box 1

Folder 1: Biographical Information – Arlene Edith Luchsinger: CV and Who’s Who of American Women entry

Series 2: Trip to China - Papers

Box 1

Folder 2: Correspondence, July 1983: Personal correspondence sent during the trip.
Folder 3: Diary – China Trip, July 1983: Includes daily notes of the trip, items purchased, slide inventory, and notes on library visits.
Folder 4: Diary Transcript: Typewritten notes from handwritten diary of the trip.
Folder 5: Itinerary and Trip Information, 1983: Tour program, trip flyer, flight listing, billing for trip, participant list.
Folder 6: Postcards: Two packages of postcards, preprinted slides, sent personal postcards.

Series 3: Trip to China - Slides

Box 1

Folder 7: Slides of China Trip, Numbered, 1-145, 1983

Contains slides of Hong Kong; Peking (Beijing) Zoo and pandas; Peking Summer Palace; US Embassy; Red Square; Forbidden City; and the Great Wall.

Item 1: Slides 1-3, 1983: Hong Kong from hotel entrance - double decker bus
Item 2: Slides 4-5, 1983: Looking toward Hong Kong Island
Item 3: Slides 6-7, 1983: Looking toward Hong Kong Island junk
Item 4: Slides 8-9, 1983: Housing in Hong Kong
Item 5: Slides 10-18, 1983: Peking Zoo and Pandas
Item 6: Slide 19, 1983: Peking Summer Palace Entrance - 45 minutes from Peking
Item 7: Slide 20, 1983: Peking Summer Palace Entrance - lion protecting entrance
Item 8: Slides 21-22, 1983: Pathway between palaces
Item 9: Slide 23, 1983: Summer palace old woman & pipe - watch stage
Item 10: Slides 24-25, 1983: Summer palace boy and balloon
Item 11: Slide 26, 1983: Summer palace woman & child
Item 12: Slide 27, 1983: Summer palace - covered walkway
Item 13: Slides 28-32, 1983: Summer palace - covered walkway with child
Item 14: Slides 33-36, 1983: Stone boat
Item 15: Slide 37, 1983: Water lilies near stone boat
Item 16: Slides 38-39, 1983: Boat ride at Summer Palace
Item 17: Slides 40-42, 1983: On the boat
Item 18: Slides 43-47, 1983: Looking toward Summer Palace grounds
Item 19: Slide 48, 1983: Summer Palace bridge between islands
Item 20: Slide 49, 1983: Summer Palace boat ride
Item 21: Slide 50, 1983: Summer Palace boat ride boys swimming
Item 22: Slides 51-53, 1983: Subway
Item 23: Slides 54-56, 1983: U.S. Embassy soldier
Item 24: Slide 57, 1983: Korean girls at Red Square
Item 25: Slide 58, 1983: Center of Red Square Monument to Peoples Heroes
Item 26: Slide 59, 1983: Monument to Peoples Heroes
Item 27: Slide 60, 1983: Monument to Peoples Heroes obelisk
Item 28: Slide 61, 1983: Base of obelisk - Bas relief showing events of revolution
Item 29: Slide 62, 1983: Base of obelisk - Bas relief of China soldier
Item 30: Slides 63-64, 1983: Monument to Revolution
Item 31: Slide 65, 1983: Taking down the flags Keep off the grass
Item 32: Slide 66, 1983: Flags down looking across square to Gates
Item 33: Slides 67-69, 1983: Old man & kite
Item 34: Slides 70-71, 1983: Boy climbing stairs of Red Square
Item 35: Slides 72-73, 1983: Red Square looking toward Tiananmen Gate
Item 36: Slide 74, 1983: Tiananmen Gate - Entrance to Forbidden City
Item 37: Slides 75-76, 1983: Forbidden City - 5 Marble Bridge
Item 38: Slides 77-78, 1983: Gates of Supreme Harmony
Item 39: Slide 79, 1983: Bronze Lion and Arlene E. Luchsinger
Item 40: Slide 80, 1983: Map Forbidden City inside the gate to Supreme Harmony
Item 41: Slide 81, 1983: Courtyard looking toward Hall of Supreme Harmony from gate of --
Item 42: Slide 82, 1983: Walking toward Hall of Supreme Harmony
Item 43: Slide 83, 1983: At top of steps of Hall looking back to gate of Supreme Harmony
Item 44: Slide 84, 1983: Bronze tortoise on one side of stairs, Hall of Harmony
Item 45: Slide 85, 1983: Boys studying map next to bas relief
Item 46: Slides 86-87, 1983: Bas Relief
Item 47: Slides 88-89, 1983: Hall of Perfect Harmony
Item 48: Slide 90, 1983: Courtyard Forbidden City - building unknown
Item 49: Slides 91-93, 1983: 9 Dragon screen
Item 50: Slide 94, 1983: Forbidden City
Item 51: Slide 95, 1983: Exit gate looking back - gate of Devine Paradise
Item 52: Slide 96, 1983: Outside going to bus
Item 53: Slide 97, 1983: Ming Tomb Great wall Traffic on way to Ming Tomb stopped for big wig
Item 54: Slides 98-99, 1983: Big wig car
Item 55: Slide 100, 1983: Walked home & truck of brick
Item 56: Slides 101-106, 1983: Avenue of Animals
Item 57: Slides 107-111, 1983: Row of human statues
Item 58: Slide 112, 1983: Portico after human statues road on either side
Item 59: Slide 113, 1983: Tour group
Item 60: Slide 114, 1983: Map of Ming Tomb
Item 61: Slide 115, 1983: Vessel in tombs to be filled with oil for eternal flame
Item 62: Slide 116, 1983: Repair of tomb
Item 63: Slides 117-118, 1983: Men carrying concrete beam
Item 64: Slide 119, 1983: Photo session
Item 65: Slide 120, 1983: Terrain on way to Great Wall
Item 66: Slide 121, 1983: Sign in front of café at Great Wall
Item 67: Slide 122, 1983: Meal before climb of Great Wall note t-shirts
Item 68: Slide 123, 1983: Meal before climb of wall note t-shirts 123a Entrance to wall area
Item 69: Slides 124-128, 1983: Great Wall
Item 70: Slide 129, 1983: Great Wall - hard climb
Item 71: Slides 130-131, 1983: Great Wall in distance
Item 72: Slide 132, 1983: Look out post
Item 73: Slides 133-36, 1983: Arlene E. Luchsinger
Item 74: Slide 137, 1983: Great Wall. Wall - difficult
Item 75: Slide 138, 1983: Great Wall - easy
Item 76: Slides 139-142, 1983: Great Wall distant
Item 77: Slides 143-144, 1983: Great Wall graffiti
Item 78: Slide 145, 1983: Camel at Great Wall

Folder 8: Slides of China Trip, Numbered, 146-356, 1983

Contains slides of Temple of Heaven; Peking observatory; Peking; Arlene E. Luchsinger; terra cotta figures; Chinese citizens and children; Yangzi River; Chang Jiang bridge; banquets; Shanghai station; West Lake; Six Harmonies Pagoda; and a tea plantation.

Item 1: Slide 146, 1983: Coke after climb
Item 2: Slide 147, 1983: Temple of Heaven - Hall of abstinence
Item 3: Slides 148-150, 1983: Temple of Heaven Hall of Prayer for good harvest
Item 4: Slide 151, 1983: Temple of Heaven temple of the Gods
Item 5: Slides 152-153, 1983: Temple of Heaven temple of the Gods Listening Walls
Item 6: Slide 154, 1983: Temple of Heaven Round Altar
Item 7: Slides 155-156, 1983: Temple of Heaven Round Altar surrounding wall
Item 8: Slides 157-159, 1983: Temple of Heaven ancient trees
Item 9: Slide 160, 1983: Temple of Heaven Flower bed
Item 10: Slides 161-163, 1983: Temple of Heaven old observatory instruments
Item 11: Slides 164-165, 1983: Painted windows inside observatory
Item 12: Slides 166-170, 1983: Street scenes of Peking from observatory
Item 13: Slide 171, 1983: Peking Carts from Observatory
Item 14: Slide 172, 1983: Carts from Observatory lemons etc.
Item 15: Slides 173-177, 1983: Carts from Observatory
Item 16: Slide 178, 1983: Hotel in Peking Hua Da
Item 17: Slides 179-180, 1983: Hotel in Peking Buses
Item 18: Slide 181, 1983: Driver dusting buses
Item 19: Slide 182, 1983: Woman walking 6:00 AM
Item 20: Slides 183-186, 1983: Scenes outside hotel gate
Item 21: Slides 187-188, 1983: Outside gate
Item 22: Slide 189, 1983: Lotus flower
Item 23: Slide 190, 1983: Went to lunch here
Item 24: Slide 191, 1983: Excavation for bomb shelter
Item 25: Slides 192-194, 1983: Billboards
Item 26: Slides 195-196, 1983: Children buggy
Item 27: Slides 197-198, 1983: Children Forbidden City boy with stick
Item 28: Slides 199-200, 1983: Brick walls
Item 29: Slides 201-202, 1983: Ice cream man
Item 30: Slide 203, 1983: Watermelon
Item 31: Slides 204-211, 1983: Peking street scenes & people
Item 32: Slide 212, 1983: Peking bus
Item 33: Slide 213, 1983: Mary Ruth Bateman on silk spread
Item 34: Slide 214, 1983: View from our 8th floor window - veg garden
Item 35: Slide 215, 1983: View from our 8th floor window
Item 36: Slide 216, 1983: View from our 8th floor window - other building
Item 37: Slide 217, 1983: Small goose pagoda from hotel
Item 38: Slide 218, 1983: Bird in cage
Item 39: Slide 219, 1983: Porch boxes walled apt
Item 40: Slide 220, 1983: street scene - looking back at apt.
Item 41: Slides 221-222, 1983: Billboard - intersection
Item 42: Slides 223-224, 1983: City gate renovated
Item 43: Slide 225, 1983: Cart of fresh dressed pork
Item 44: Slides 226-228, 1983: Terra Cotta figures - funeral vault 200BC
Item 45: Slides 229-231, 1983: Terra Cotta figures - Sir Richard Attenborough Prod Dir of Gandhi
Item 46: Slide 232, 1983: Terre Cotta colors
Item 47: Slide 233, 1983: Peasants selling ornaments and clothing - red
Item 48: Slide 234, 1983: Peasants selling ornaments and clothing - red vests
Item 49: Slide 235, 1983: Peasants selling ornaments and clothing
Item 50: Slide 236, 1983: Peasants selling ornaments and clothing boy selling ornament 1 dollar
Item 51: Slides 237-240, 1983: Peasants selling ornaments and clothing Sam buying vest
Item 52: Slides 241-243, 1983: Big goose pagoda
Item 53: Slides 244-246, 1983: Buddhas in big goose pagoda
Item 54: Slides 247-248, 1983: Museum figures
Item 55: Slides 249-253, 1983: Children
Item 56: Slide 254, 1983: Nanjing (Nanking) Sycamore trees
Item 57: Slide 255, 1983: Sycamore trees
Item 58: Slide 256, 1983: Lady who followed me - interested in my camera
Item 59: Slides 257-258, 1983: Boat ride on Yangzi River - gang plank flooded
Item 60: Slide 259, 1983: Yangzi River boat ride - flood gang plank
Item 61: Slides 260-263, 1983: Yangzi River Scenes on our boat
Item 62: Slides 264-267, 1983: Yangzi River Boats on Yangzi
Item 63: Slides 268-270, 1983: Yangzi River Pollution
Item 64: Slide 271, 1983: Yangzi River Flooding
Item 65: Slide 272, 1983: Filling sandbags
Item 66: Slides 273-282, 1983: Chang Jiang bridge
Item 67: Slides 283-284, 1983: Yangzi River bridge
Item 68: Slides 285-286, 1983: Rice fields from bridge
Item 69: Slides 287-288, 1983: Nanking Banquet
Item 70: Slide 289, 1983: Banquet fish
Item 71: Slides 290-292, 1983: Banquet toasting
Item 72: Slide 293, 1983: Banquet - after toasting!
Item 73: Slides 294-295, 1983: Hotel at Night
Item 74: Slide 296, 1983: Drum at drum tower
Item 75: Slide 297, 1983: Brass at drum tower
Item 76: Slide 298, 1983: Turtle at museum
Item 77: Slide 299, 1983: Flower at train station and 299a Inside Train
Item 78: Slide 300, 1983: Scene from train between Nanking & Shanghai
Item 79: Slide 301, 1983: Scene from train - rice
Item 80: Slides 302-303, 1983: Scene from train - flooding
Item 81: Slides 304-306, 1983: Shanghai station
Item 82: Slides 307-308, 1983: Shanghai station - lady painters
Item 83: Slides 309-310, 1983: Shanghai station - cleaning train
Item 84: Slides 311-320, 1983: Scenes from train - Shanghai - Hangchow
Item 85: Slide 321, 1983: Hangchow - West Lake West Lake Boat Ride
Item 86: Slide 322, 1983: West Lake Boat Ride
Item 87: Slide 323, 1983: Water lilies
Item 88: Slides 324-326, 1983: Lotus
Item 89: Slide 327, 1983: On island in West Lake
Item 90: Slides 328-332, 1983: Goldfish - carp at West Lake
Item 91: Slides 333-335, 1983: Six harmonies pagoda
Item 92: Slide 336, 1983: Six harmonies spring
Item 93: Slides 337-338, 1983: Child after being photographed
Item 94: Slides 339-350, 1983: Tea plantation
Item 95: Slide 351, 1983: Tea plantation children Hangchow Tea plantation children
Item 96: Slides 352-356, 1983: Tea plantation children

Folder 9: Slides of China Trip, Numbered, 357-508, 1983

Includes slides of tea plantation; Yellow Dragon (Huanglong) Cave; Lingyin Temple and Monastery; Madam Chiang-Kai Shek’s home; Jade Spring Pagoda; Ming Tomb; bonsai exhibit; Hangzhou (Hangchow) Botanical Garden; Yu Yuan Garden; Huangpu River; Shanghai; Children’s Palace; street scenes and markets; and Li Jiang River.

Item 1: Slide 357, 1983: Tea plantation children
Item 2: Slide 358, 1983: Morning exercises - Tai Ji Quan
Item 3: Slide 359, 1983: Yellow dragon cave
Item 4: Slide 360, 1983: Yellow dragon pandas
Item 5: Slides 361-362, 1983: Lingyin temple & monastery
Item 6: Slide 363, 1983: Eastern King of governing
Item 7: Slide 364, 1983: Southern King of governing
Item 8: Slide 365, 1983: Western King of governing
Item 9: Slide 366, 1983: Northern King of governing
Item 10: Slide 367, 1983: Wei Tou - Chief protector of Buddhism
Item 11: Slide 368, 1983: Great Buddha Hall
Item 12: Slide 369, 1983: Sakyamuni founder of Buddhism 25 ft high Biggest in China
Item 13: Slide 370, 1983: Disciples of Buddha
Item 14: Slide 371, 1983: Goddess of Mercy
Item 15: Slide 372, 1983: Peak flying from afar 300 stone figures of Buddha
Item 16: Slides 373-376, 1983: Peak flying from afar 10-14 centuries
Item 17: Slides 377-381, 1983: Laughing Buddha
Item 18: Slide 382, 1983: Stram at Lingyin temple
Item 19: Slides 383-386, 1983: Young pioneers at Lingyin temple
Item 20: Slides 387-389, 1983: Hangchow Sun Yat Sen's tomb
Item 21: Slides 390-391, 1983: Madam Chang-Kai Shek’s home - gardening
Item 22: Slide 392, 1983: Madam Chang-Kai Shek’s home - sycamore trees
Item 23: Slide 393, 1983: stone turtle
Item 24: Slides 394-396, 1983: Jade spring pagoda
Item 25: Slides 397-406, 1983: Ming Tomb - Avenue of Animals
Item 26: Slides 407-409, 1983: Camels of Ming Tombs
Item 27: Slides 410-414, 1983: Fish catching on West Lake - commotion
Item 28: Slides 415-418, 1983: Bonsai Exhibit
Item 29: Slides 419-424, 1983: Hangchow Botanical Garden
Item 30: Slide 425, 1983: Street scene Bikes & rickshaw good
Item 31: Slides 426-427, 1983: Grand camel
Item 32: Slides 428-429, 1983: Free market
Item 33: Slides 430-431, 1983: Street scene
Item 34: Slide 432, 1983: Ducks in depot - rice
Item 35: Slide 433, 1983: Shanghai The bund/hund
Item 36: Slide 434, 1983: Turtle race
Item 37: Slides 435-436, 1983: Yu Yuan garden (dragon)
Item 38: Slides 437-443, 1983: Boat ride down Huangpu River to mouth of Yangzi
Item 39: Slides 444-445, 1983: Boat ride down Huangpu River to mouth of Yangzi pollution
Item 40: Slides 446-448, 1983: Shanghai skyline
Item 41: Slides 449-450, 1983: Children’s Palace
Item 42: Slide 451, 1983: Street scenes crowding
Item 43: Slide 452, 1983: Street scenes crowding laundry
Item 44: Slide 453, 1983: Street scenes crowding
Item 45: Slide 454, 1983: Street scenes sailor
Item 46: Slides 455-457, 1983: Street scene bicycles
Item 47: Slide 458, 1983: Street scenes laundry
Item 48: Slide 459, 1983: Street scene card players
Item 49: Slide 460, 1983: Street scene cabinet maker
Item 50: Slide 461, 1983: Street scene bike shop
Item 51: Slides 462-465, 1983: Vegetable market
Item 52: Slides 466-467, 1983: Bamboo scaffolding
Item 53: Slide 468, 1983: Shanghai
Item 54: Slides 469-473, 1983: View from 17 floor of Park Hotel
Item 55: Slides 474-475, 1983: Shanghai commune vegetable
Item 56: Slides 476-477, 1983: Shanghai commune children
Item 57: Slides 478-480, 1983: Shanghai commune plants flowers
Item 58: Slides 481-483, 1983: Shanghai industrial exhibition
Item 59: Slide 484, 1983: Shanghai industrial exhibition from roof
Item 60: Slides 485-486, 1983: Boat trip down Li Jiang River
Item 61: Slides 487-495, 1983: Boat trip down Li Jiang River, mountain view
Item 62: Slide 496, 1983: Boat trip down Li Jiang River, boats on river
Item 63: Slide 497, 1983: Boat trip down Li Jiang River, boats on river, ours
Item 64: Slides 498-504, 1983: Boat trip down Li Jiang River, boats on river
Item 65: Slides 505-508, 1983: Boat trip down Li Jiang River, riverbanks

Folder 10: Slides of China Trip, Unnumbered, 1983

Includes slides of Guilin; children; unidentified library; food; lion and panda trash cans.

Folder 11: Slides – Chinese Libraries, 1983

Peking University Library; National Library of China; Nanjing University Library; Shanghai Library

Series 4: Oversized Materials

Box 2

Folder 1: Scrapbook, 1983: Includes itinerary, baggage tags, travel and tourist brochures, National Library of China pamphlet, maps, Great Wall of China certificate, and postcards.
Folder 2: Artifacts, 1983: Includes handmade embroidered animals and handkerchief purchased on trip.

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