CHINA- THE SOONG SISTERS] Archive of approximately forty photographs, being vintage prints but most likely early copy prints depicting the Soong Sisters and their husbands posed but also in various acts such as addressing a crowd, nursing patients, holding children, etc. Sizes vary, largest 7 x 5 inches (18 x 13 cm). Some handling creases, also present is a group of about 15 small format images of Chinese military training drills and equipment. This interesting archive contains both public and private images of of Soong Mei-Ling and her husband Chiang Kai-Shek, Soong Ai-Ling and her husband H. H. Kung, and Soong Ching-Ling. The photographs were owned by The New Yorker writer Emily Hahn who lived in China and gained access to the Soong Sisters through the poet and publisher Sinmay Zau. Hahn published a major biography of the sisters and these photographs were likely provided to her by a press agency or perhaps another insider. Sold with a first edition of Emily Hahn's The Soong Sisters, Doubleday, 1941. C
CHINA- THE SOONG SISTERS] Archive of approximately forty photographs, being vintage prints but most likely early copy prints depicting the Soong Sisters and their husbands posed but also in various acts such as addressing a crowd, nursing patients, holding children, etc. Sizes vary, largest 7 x 5 inches (18 x 13 cm). Some handling creases, also present is a group of about 15 small format images of Chinese military training drills and equipment. This interesting archive contains both public and private images of of Soong Mei-Ling and her husband Chiang Kai-Shek, Soong Ai-Ling and her husband H. H. Kung, and Soong Ching-Ling. The photographs were owned by The New Yorker writer Emily Hahn who lived in China and gained access to the Soong Sisters through the poet and publisher Sinmay Zau. Hahn published a major biography of the sisters and these photographs were likely provided to her by a press agency or perhaps another insider. Sold with a first edition of Emily Hahn's The Soong Sisters, Doubleday, 1941. C
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