Personal Members Papers Josephine Riss Fang Slides Finding AidBy Cara Bertram
Title: Josephine Riss Fang Slides, 1973-1986, 1988
ID: 97/1/91
Primary Creator: Fang, Josephine R.
Extent: 1.5 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Arranged by original order by slide box. Primarily arranged by trip date and locations.
Date Acquired: 11/01/2024
Subjects: Buildings, Library, China, China-Libraries, Chinese Universities, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Librarians, Manuscripts, Chinese, Photographs
The slides of Josephine Riss Fang (1922-2023), primarily from her trips to China (1973-1988) during and after the Cultural Revolution and consisting of images of academic, school, public, medical, and national libraries, book stores, manuscripts and artifacts, museums, universities and educational institutions, schools and nurseries, performances, hospitals, communes, and factories, from cities and regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Changchun, Kunming, Harbin, Lijiang, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Daqing.
Also includes slides from personal trips to China, Honduras, Japan, and Korea, pertaining to the Fang family members, cruises, sightseeing, and hot springs. Slides of the trips includes images of the Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square, Yunnan Stone Forest, Kunming Zoo (pandas), Great Hall of the People, Fragrant Hills, Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven, Mao's Residences, the Great Wall, and the Palace Museum. Other slides include International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) meetings in Copenhagen, Manila, Munich, and Vienna.
Several folder titles use older romanization styles for Chinese cities and places to reflect and match the original slides and descriptions written by Josephine Fang in the 1970s-1980s.
Josephine Riss Fang (1922-2023) was born in Saalfelden, Austria, and earned a degree in English at the University of Vienna and a PhD in English at the University of Graz in 1948. She worked as a typist and interpreter for the E “Easy” Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, then the Executive Secretary and Stenographer for the Commanding Officer of the American Military Government of Salzburg, Austria, from 1945-1947.
Fang received a fewllowship in library science in the US in 1950 and received her M.S. in Library and Information Science from Catholic University. During this time, she met her husband, Pao-Hsien Fang.
Fang taught at the Catholic University and University of Maryland, along with working at Boston College libraries. In 1969, Fang started teaching at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College until 1989. Fang published and presented extensively on library and information science topics.
Fang was active in multiple library organizations, including the American Library Association, the Chinese American Librarians Association, International Federation of Library Associations, and the Women's National Book Association.
Buildings, Library
China
China-Libraries
Chinese Universities
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
Librarians
Manuscripts, Chinese
Photographs
Repository: The American Library Association Archives
Acquisition Source: Asia Art Archive of America
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