Friday, July 30, 2021

Poy Gum Lee (Li Jinpei) in Shanghai Directories

The Shanghai Directory 1929
page 175: Li-jin-pei-cheng-jui-shih
29 Szechuen Road Tel 14849

Lee, Poy G., Registered Architect
Architects and Engineers
Chang, K. P., architect
Ling, J. K., civil engineer
King, Y. Y., civil engineer
Chen, Gee K., secretary
Li, T. K., clerk of works





















page 460: Szechuen Road—E
29 Sheng Building—
Poy G. Lee






















The Shanghai Directory 1930
page 175: Li-king-pai-chi-tso-sze
29 Szechuen Road Tel 14849
P.O. Box 1467 Tel Add: Genyue

Lee, Poy G.
Architects and Engineers

Lee, Poy G., Registered Architect, architect
Wong, T.P., business manager
Chang, K.P., architect
Ling, J.K., civil engineer, engineer
Chen, S.Y., secretary
Chong, Y.C., draughtsman
Kew, S., draughtsman
Wong, Z.C., draughtsman
Chen, B.F., draughtsman
Loo, Y.T., draughtsman
Lee, Y.T, draughtsman
Zee, C.W., superintendent
Chuck, M.Y., superintendent
Tsuy, W.F., superintendent
Sung, S.U., clerk of works
Lee, T.K., clerk of works





















page 475: Szechuen Road—C
29 Sheng Building—
G. Lee Pay [sic]





















page 524: Lee, Poy G. & Mrs—88 Fong Loh Lee






















The Shanghai Directory 1931
page 182: Li-king-pai-chi-tso-sze
29 Szechuen Road Tel 14849
P.O. Box 1467 Tel Add: Genyue

Lee, Poy G., Registered Architect
Architects and Engineers

Lee, Poy G., Registered Architect, architect
Wong, T. P., business manager
Chang, K. P., architect
Lee, Y. O., M. Arch., architect
Ling, J.K., Civil Engineer, engineer
Chen, S.Y., secretary
Sung, S. U., draughtsman
Zee, C. T., draughtsman
Wong, Z. C., draughtsman
Chen, B. F., draughtsman
Lee, Y. T, draughtsman
Zee, C. W., superintendent
Chuck, M. Y., superintendent
Tsuy, W. F., superintendent
Loo, Y. T., clerk of works
Lee, T. K., clerk of works
Jen, C. W., clerk of works





















page 506: Szechuen Road—C
29 Szechuen Building—
G. Lee Poy





















page 562: Lee, Poy G. & Mrs—Y 1052 C North Szechuen Road






















The Shanghai Directory 1941
page 192: Lee, Poy G.
Architects and Engineers
353 Kiangse-rd
Tel 14849
TA 1237
PO Box 1467

Lee, Poy G., Registered Architect, M.S.C.A.
Chu, Basun, Civil Engineer
Chen, B. F., draughtsman
Chow, Y. N., draughtsman
Lam, S. N., draughtsman
Jen, Y. C., clerk-of-works
Hsiang, F. H., clerk-of-works





















page 405: Shanghai Who’s Who
Lee, Poy G.—Poy G. Lee





















page 510: Kiangse Road
353 
Poy G. Lee





















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Friday, July 23, 2021

Poy Gum Lee (Li Jinpei) and the Sun Yat-sen Memorials

The Bombay Chronicle
(India)
December 3, 1931
Poy G. Lee mentioned three times for his work in Canton.

China
Edited by Harley Farnsworth MacNair
University of California Press, 1946
page 363: Chapter XXIII
Architecture by Henry Killam Murphy
page 369: Poy G. Lee and the memorial in Canton

Literature and the Arts in Twentieth Century China
Adolphe Clarence Scott
Doubleday, 1963
page xiii: Poy G. Lee (1900– ) Architect and assistant to Lu Yen-chih
page 114: Poy G. Lee’s roles mentioned for the memorials at Nanking and Canton.


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Friday, June 11, 2021

Comics: James Wong, Korean War Prisoner

Warfront #12, November 1952
“Chinese All-American”
artwork attributed to Manny Stallman
 


























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Friday, June 4, 2021

Photography: May Wong, World War II Woman at Work

Elmira Star Gazette (New York), 
August 10, 1943






















Jackson Advocate (Mississippi), 
August 14, 1943






















Sunday Star (Washington, DC), 
August 22, 1943


















September 10, 1943

































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Friday, May 28, 2021

Photography: World War II Women at Work


















Lora Chan, Sarah Hardiway and Dorothy Ross meet Dr. Mary 
McLeod Bethune, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Chicago 
Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, and Mrs. Mary Stuart Anderson. 
Photograph appeared in the Chicago Defender, April 1943, 
and the Evansville Argus, April 9, 1943. 

Further Reading
National First Ladies’ Library, Eleanor Roosevelt
National WWII Museum, Mary McLeod Bethune 


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Friday, May 21, 2021

Comics: Mei Ling, Girl Commando

#23, October 1942
Girl Commandoes debut



























#24, December 1942
Glorious History of Korea

#25, February 1943
Mei Ling absent

#26, April 1943
Attack on the Nazis in Norway

#27, July 1943
The Battle for Burma

#28, September 1943
The Guerillas of Czechoslovakia

#29, November 1943
Bomber in the Straw

#30, January 1944
The Men Who Wear Veils

#31, March 1944
The Maharajah’s Major-Domo

#32, May 1944
Treachery in Tibet

#33, July 1944
The Devil’s Sister

#34, September 1944
The Greeks Say: Fight!

#35, November 1944
The Strange Fate of Madam Intrigue

#36, March 1945
Murder for Matadors

#37, May 1945
“Murder and the Masquerade of Mei Ling”





























#39, September 1945
A Cannibal’s Mix-Up!

#40, November 1945
Forgotten Land

#41, January 1946
Treachery at the Top of the World

#42, March 1946
“Chins Up, China”
The Girl Commandoes last appearance










 

















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Friday, May 7, 2021

Yun Gee at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, May 1968







 















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