Finding aid for the Hua Li papers 2002.M.10
Sara McGillivray
Special Collections
2024 April 30
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Title: Hua Li papers
Creator:
Li, Hua, 1909-2001
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.M.10
Physical Description:
91.91 Linear Feet
(66 boxes, 13 flatfiles, 6 rolls)
Date (inclusive): 1930s-1989
Date (bulk): 1948-1983
Abstract: The papers of architect Hua Li primarily consist of travel photographs and architectural drawings. The photographs document
buildings and sites in Europe
and North Africa. The architectural drawings relate to design projects developed while working for M. A. Dyer Company,
Architects & Engineers. Also included are materials from Hua Li's graduate
studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as photograph albums from his time in China.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English with some Chinese.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 2001.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in five series: Series I. Photograph albums from early years in China, 1930s-1940s; Series II.
Graduate school papers, 1948-1950, undated; Series III. Architectural projects,
1950-1979, undated; Series IV. Travel photographs, 1962-1989, undated; and Series V. Other papers, 1967-1984, undated.
Biographical Note
Hua Li was born in Macau, China, in 1909. He studied civil engineering at Tsing Hua University (now known as Tsinghua University)
in Beijing and spent time in Shanghai and Kunming. He emigrated from China
to the United States after World War II, joining his brother at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained
a Master in Architecture from MIT in 1949. Li worked for several firms in the
Boston area, including M. A. Dyer Company, Architects & Engineers, and Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott. He specialized
in designing schools and hospitals in the Boston area and in the United
States Virgin Islands.
Hua Li experimented with photography in the early 1950s, creating abstract images as well as photographing the Boston coast.
He became an avid photographer of architecture and landscape and documented his
travels extensively. From the 1960s to the 1980s, he traveled across Europe, including Eastern Europe behind the Iron
Curtain, and to North Africa, creating a large portfolio of images of archaeological
sites, buildings, and cities.
Li learned to use pastels and watercolors as a young man and continued painting and sketching throughout his life. He was
a member of the Rockport Art Association in Massachusetts. The Norris Medical
Library at the University of Southern California holds a selection of his watercolors.
Hua Li stopped traveling in 1984 after a fall from the roof of his three-story home in Arlington, Massachusetts. After he
recovered, he moved to join his brothers in Los Angeles, California, where he
continued practicing photography until he passed away in 2001.
Sources:
"Hua Li: An Architect, a Painter and a Photographer." Exhibition announcement. LMAN Gallery, 2002.
University of Southern California Norris Medical Library. "Artwork in the Library." Accessed August 2024. https://libraries.usc.edu/locations/norris-medical-library/artwork-in-the-library.
Preferred Citation
Hua Li papers, 1930s-1989, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2002.M.10.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/archives2002m10
Processing Information
The collection was partially rehoused upon receipt. In 2024, Sara McGillivray completed the rehousing, arranged the materials,
and wrote the finding aid.
Related Materials
Hua Li collection. Norris Medical Library at the University of Southern California. Includes black-and-white travel photographs,
color abstract photographs, and watercolors.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection primarily consists of Hua Li's photographic prints, slides, sketches, and architectural drawings. The bulk
of the collection consists of photographic documentation of buildings and sites from Hua Li's travels in Europe and North
Africa, as well as architectural drawings of design projects primarily from his time working for M. A. Dyer Company, Architects
& Engineers. The collection also includes photograph albums from Hua Li's early years in China, materials from his time at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and miscellaneous other papers and photographs.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architects -- Archives
Architecture -- Massachusetts -- 20th century
Architecture -- United States Virgin Islands -- 20th century
Hospitals -- Massachusetts -- Designs and plans
Hospitals -- United States Virgin Islands -- Designs and plans
Schools -- Massachusetts -- Designs and plans
Schools -- United States Virgin Islands -- Designs and plans
Travel photography -- Austria -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Belgium -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Egypt -- 20th century
Travel photography -- France -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Germany (West) -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Greece -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Hungary -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Italy -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Netherlands -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Portugal -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Romania -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Spain -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Switzerland -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Tunisia -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Turkey -- 20th century
Travel photography -- Yugoslavia -- 20th century
Architectural drawings (visual works) -- 20th century
Chromogenic color prints -- 20th century
Color negatives -- 20th century
Color slides -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Gelatin silver negatives -- 20th century
Photograph albums -- 20th century
Scrapbooks -- 20th century
Sketchbooks -- 20th century
Photographs, Original
Photograph albums from early years in China, Series I.
1930s-1940s
Physical Description: 0.44 Linear Feet(1 box)
Scope and Contents
Series I consists of albums of black-and-white photographs compiled by Hua Li, depicting places and buildings in China, including
Shanghai and Kunming. The photographs, dating from the 1930s and
1940s, were taken prior to Hua Li's emigration from China. The photographs document cityscapes as well as the construction
of specific buildings which Hua Li likely helped to design.
Processing Information
The titles of the albums were taken from text written on the front cover or first page of the albums. These were either transcribed
from English or translated from Chinese by the archivist
utilizing Google Translate.
Arrangement
Arranged in loose chronological order with undated materials at the end.
box 1, folder 1
[Untitled album],
1930s
Scope and Contents
Includes images of Shanghai, scenes at/on unidentified rivers, and unidentified people swimming.
box 1, folder 2
Chi Chow Athletic Association,
1940s
box 1, folder 3
New St. John's Church, Kunming,
1946
Scope and Contents
Also known as the Allied Memorial Chapel.
box 1, folder 4
Victory Memorial Hall of the Anti-Japanese War, Kunming,
1944-1947
box 1, folder 5
[Untitled album],
1940s
Scope and Contents
Includes images of construction of various buildings, images of Hua Li, and a postcard featuring the Grand Hotel in Taipei,
Taiwan.
Graduate school papers, Series II.
1948-1950, undated
Physical Description: 2.17 Linear Feet(4 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series II consists of materials from Hua Li's time as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
in the late 1940s, including black-and-white photographs, notebooks and
sketchbooks, scrapbooks of school projects, and a copy of his master's thesis, "A Health Center for Kiangwan, Shanghai,
China."
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
Black-and-white photographs,
circa 1948-1950
box 4, folder 3
Photograph album
Scope and Contents
Includes images from Hua Li's time at MIT and images of architectural precedent projects.
box 4, folder 1-2
Loose photographs
Scope and Contents
Images from Hua Li's time at MIT, including visits to Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Virgin Islands. Also
includes images of textures and experimental photography.
Notebooks and sketchbooks,
1948-1949
box 2, folder 1
Tsing Hua University Alumni Association of Shanghai handbook and address book,
1948
box 2, folder 3
Notebook on the history of architecture,
1949
box 2, folder 4
Sketchbook on Boston T-Wharf,
1949
Master's thesis in architecture, "A Health Center for Kiangwan, Shanghai, China,"
1949, undated
box 2, folder 5
Copy of thesis submission,
1949
box 3
Scrapbooks of school projects,
1948-1949
Scope and Contents
Includes Fall 1948: Architectural Design and Spring 1949: Architectural Design 4.762, Visual Fundamentals 4.032, and Graphic
Presentation 4.052 and 4.062.
Architectural projects, Series III.
1950-1979, undated
Physical Description: 73.51 Linear Feet(3 boxes, 13 flatfile folders, 6 rolls)
Scope and Contents
Series III consists of materials relating to architectural projects including reprographic copies of design and construction
drawings, original design drawings and sketches, and color slides and
photographs. The slides and photographs include images of drawings, buildings under construction, and finished projects.
Projects in this series include hospitals and educational buildings in
Boston, Massachusetts, and the United States Virgin Islands, as well as designs for a proposed apartment building in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Arrangement
Arranged in four groups: projects with M. A. Dyer Company, Architects and Engineers; projects with other architects; projects
with unidentified architects; and precedent projects (which Hua Li did
not work on but kept materials on for reference).
Projects with M. A. Dyer Company, Architects and Engineers,
1950-1965, undated
Flatfile 1**
Residence for Superintendent, Chronic Diseases Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,
1950
Scope and Contents
Design drawings.
Hospitals in the United States Virgin Islands,
1951, undated
Project Information
Projects for the United States Department of the Interior, Division of Territories. Associate Architects and Engineers: Hayden,
Harding & Buchanan. Includes Saint Thomas Hospital, Saint
Thomas; Christiansted Hospital, Saint Croix; Frederiksted Hospital, Saint Croix; and Saint John Hospital, Saint John.
Flatfile 2**
Construction drawings,
1951
Silver Lake School, Lynn, Massachusetts,
1951, undated
Project Information
Contract number: 260. Site Consultant and Landscape Architect: Porter W. Dorr. Consulting Engineers: Cleverdon, Varney & Pike.
Construction drawings,
1951
box 2, folder 6
Black-and-white photographs and reduced-scale copies of drawings,
undated
box 13
Color slides,
1951, undated
Charlotte Amalie High School, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands,
1952, undated
Project Information
Project for the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Territories. Consulting Engineers: Hayden, Harding & Buchanan.
Flatfile 4**, Flatfile 5**
Construction drawings,
1952
box 2, folder 6
Reduced-scale copy of drawing,
undated
Rindge Field School, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1955-1966, undated
Project Information
Contract number: 277. Structural Engineers: Thomas Murphy Company. Consulting Engineers: J.M. McCusker Associates. Sanitary
Engineer: C. L. Thompson. Also labeled Ellis Sleeper Wyman School
and M. E. Fitzgerald School. Project included Cambridge Public Library Branch.
Construction drawings,
1955
Flatfile 6**, Flatfile 7**
Flatfile 8**
Structural and mechanical
box 2, folder 6
Reduced-scale copies of drawings,
undated
box 13
Color slides,
1964-1966, undated
Brookwater Elementary School, Framingham, Massachusetts,
1956-1958, undated
Project Information
Contract number: 283. Structural Engineers: Thomas Murphy Company. Consulting Engineers: J. M. McCusker Associates. Also labeled
"Brook Water."
Construction drawings,
1956
roll 4**, roll 5**
Architectural and structural
roll 6**
Plumbing, mechanical, and electrical
box 13
Color slides,
1958, undated
Dedham High School, Dedham, Massachusetts,
1958-1959, undated
box 2, folder 6
Reduced-scale copies of drawings,
undated
box 13
Color slides and color photographs,
1958-1959
box 13
South Common Elementary School, Lowell, Massachusetts,
1958-1966
Project Information
Also possibly known as Edith Nourse Rogers School.
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
box 13
Belvidere School, Lowell, Massachusetts,
1959-1966
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
box 13
Assembly Hall, Skating Rink, and General Purposes Building for Boston College, Massachusetts,
1959-1960
Scope and Contents
Color slides. Also known as the Roberts Center and McHugh Forum.
box 13
Juniper Hill Elementary School, Framingham, Massachusetts,
1959-1965
Scope and Contents
Reduced-scale copies of drawings and color slides.
box 13
Natural Resources Building (Holdsworth Hall), University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
1959-1966
Scope and Contents
Black-and-white photographs, color photographs, and color slides.
Donnelly Field School (and Cambridge Public Library Branch), Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1960-1966, undated
box 2, folder 6
Reduced-scale copies of drawings,
undated
box 14, folder 1
Hemenway Elementary School, Framingham, Massachusetts,
1961-1965
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
box 14, folder 1
Addition to Roosevelt School, Framingham, Massachusetts,
circa 1960s
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
box 14, folder 1
Sudbury Junior High at Pratts Mill, Sudbury, Massachusetts,
1962-1966
Scope and Contents
Reduced-scale copies of drawings and color slides.
box 14, folder 1
Kilby Street Parking Garage, Boston, Massachusetts,
1963, undated
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
Flatfile 10**
Proposed apartment building, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1965
Scope and Contents
Design drawings.
Miscellaneous projects,
undated
box 2, folder 6
Reduced-scale copies of drawings
Scope and Contents
Includes Julia F. Callahan Elementary School, Lynn, Massachusetts; Ingalls Elementary School, Lynn, Massachusetts; Columbia
Point, Dorchester District, Boston, Massachusetts; Sudbury
Public Library, Sudbury, Massachusetts; and Christiansted Consolidated School, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands.
box 14, folder 2
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Includes Acute Treatment Center, Worcester, Massachusetts; Chronic Disease Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Raytheon Radio
Tube Factory; and Health Center for Beverly,
Massachusetts.
Projects with other architects,
1950-1979
Concord Dairy Incorporated, Concord, New Hampshire,
1950
Project Information
Broker and Annis, Architects & Engineers.
box 2, folder 6
Black-and-white photograph of drawing
Student Center, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts,
1965
Project Information
Architects & Engineers: Clifford Broker Associates, Incorporated. Associate Architects: Kenneth F. Parry and Associates, Incorporated.
Project number: 6115. Housing and Home Finance
Agency (HHFA) project number: CH-MASS-91 (DS).
Flatfile 11**, Flatfile 12**
Flatfile 13**
Detail drawing for Scottish Rite Museum and Library, Lexington, Massachusetts,
1972
Project Information
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Architects. Job number: 1665.
box 2, folder 7
Memoranda and job lists from Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Architects,
1973-1979
Projects with unidentified architects,
1958-1966, undated
box 14, folder 2
Color slides of various buildings
Scope and Contents
Includes Tenean Beach Building, 1960-1961; Bay View [apartments?], 1960-1963; Greenlodge Elementary School, Dedham, 1961-1965;
Hemenway Hall, Framingham Teacher's College, 1961-1966;
Wellesley T. Hall, 1961; Jamaica Plain [school?], 1964; Winch Park, Framingham, 1964-1965; John F. Kennedy Middle
School, Northhampton, 1966; Beethoven Elementary School, Boston, 1965;
Medford Police Station, 1966; Revere Hospital, 1966; and other unidentified schools, 1958.
Precedent projects,
1963, undated
box 14, folder 3
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Le Corbusier,
1963
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
box 14, folder 3
John J. Shaugnessy School, Lowell, Massachusetts, by Hugh Stubbins,
undated
Scope and Contents
Color slides.
Travel photographs, Series IV.
1962-1989, undated
Physical Description: 17.32 Linear Feet(61 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series IV consists of Hua Li's photography from his travels spanning from 1962 to 1983. Formats include black-and-white negatives,
photographic prints, and color slides. Travel journals for some of
his trips are also included. Images are from trips to Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, the Federal
Republic of Germany (in 1973), Austria, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Yugoslavia
(in 1978), Romania, Hungary, Belgium and the Netherlands. Also included in one travel album is a portrait of Hua Li
taken in 1989.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year of trip, with miscellaneous materials at the end. The black-and-white photographs are arranged
according to Hua Li's organizational system, which was numbered and
included the names of locations depicted in the images; misspellings and/or errors in these location names have been
corrected. The color slides were also kept in Hua Li's order, which was grouped
by trip; some trips include images from locations not in the titular country. Selected inscriptions from the mounts
are transcribed with errors; corrections are in square brackets.
box 15, box 16, box 17, box 18
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Salerno, Paestum, Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvio [Mount Vesuvius], Napoli [Naples], Roma [Rome], Tivoli, Bolsena,
Siena, San Gimignano, Firenze [Florence], Bologna, Milano
[Milan], on the air to & return, with the McNulties & self, from Roma to Ravello, Ravello from Lepiscopio, Minori
e Maggiori, Amalfi, Positano, Sorrento, Capri, Messina, Taormina,
Mount Etna, Catania, Siracusa [Syracuse], Avolo [Avola], Noto, Modica, Ragusa, Vittoria, Gela, Palma di Montechiaro,
Marina di Palma Agrigento, Porto Empedocle, Siculiana, Ribera, Sciacca,
Selinunte, Marsala, Trapani, Erica [Erice], Segesta, Alcamo, Partinico, Monreale, Palermo, Mount Pellegrino, Solanto,
Termini, Cefalù, S. Agata [Sant'Agata di Militello], Capo d'Orlando,
Tyndaris [Tindari], Messina.
box 19, box 20, box 21, box 22
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Athens, Sounion [Soúnio Cape], Tripoli, Sparta, Mistra [Mystras], Mycenae, Argos, Tiryns, Nauplia [Nauplion],
Epidauros [Epidaurus], Corinhos [Corinth], Monastery of
Daphni, Eleusis, Tripoli to Olympia (Langadia), Messini, Kalamata, Pylos (Navarino), Delphi [Delphoi], Aigion, Galaxidion,
Patras, Rhion, Olympia, Livadia to Lamia, Arakhova, Hosio Luckas
[Hosios Loukas], Larissa, Katarini [Katerinē], Saloniki [Thessalonikē], Meteora, Trikala, Lamia, Karditsa, Kalabaka,
Thermopylae, Khalkis [Chalcis], Volos to Lamia, Kavala, Philippi,
Amphipolis, Delos, Hydra, Septsai [Spetses], Mykonos, Amphiareion, Lake of Marathon, Aigina, Knossos, Crete, Poros,
from the airplane, Hagia Triada, Phaestos [Phaistos], Heracleion
[Ērakleion].
Italy and Switzerland,
1966
box 23, box 24, box 25, box 26
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Sutri, Viterbo, Orvieto, Dano, Arezzo, Siena, Volterra, San Gimignano, Prato, Pistoia, Lucca, Lerici,
La Spezia, Pisa, Portovenere, Riomaggiore, Manarola, Santa
Margherita, Portofino, San Fruttuoso, Genova [Genoa], Alessandria, Asti, Torino [Turin], Aosta, Cogne, Novara, Arona,
Stresa, Pallanza, Verbania, Brissago, Locarno, Lugano, Como, Torno,
Bellagio, Lecco, Bergamo, Brescia, Lago di Garda [Lake Garda], Sirmione, Verona, Peschiera [del Garda], Vicenza, Treviso,
Venezia [Venice], Padova [Padua], Ferrara, Rimini, Pesaro,
Ravenna, San Marino, Urbino, Fano, Ancona, Iesi [Jesi], Gubbio, Perugia, Spello, Spoleto, Assisi, Roma [Rome], Aosta
& the valley.
box 61
Black-and-white negatives
box 5, folder 1
Black-and-white photographs
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Montserrat and Barcelona.
box 27, box 28
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Madrid, Toledo, Maqueda, Oropesa, Trujillo, Córdoba, Carmona, Sevilla [Seville], Cáceres, Villafranca
de los Barros, Mérida, Granada, Ronda, Málaga, Loja, Cádiz,
Tarifa, Gibraltar, Sagunto, Alicante, Benidorm, Lorca, Murcia, Almería, Sorbas, Castell de Ferro, El Pozuelo, Barcelona,
Tarragona, Almenara, Peñíscola, Gerona, Mataró, Tibidabo,
Montserrat, Lérida, Catatayud [Calatayud], Medinaceli, Segovia, Zaragoza.
box 61
Black-and-white negatives
box 29, box 30
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Lisboa [Lisbon], Sesimbra [Sezimbra], Palmela, Setúbal, Alcacer do Sol [Alcácer do Sal], Gradola [Grândola],
Santiago do Cacém, Sines, Aljezur, Lagos, Sagres, Cabo de
S. Vincente [Cape Saint Vincent], Albufeira, Sevilla [Seville], Italica, Serpa, Beja, Évora, Montemor-o-Novo, Arraiolos,
Estremoz, Elvas, Campo Maior, Marvão, Castelo de Vide, Alpalhão,
Nisa [Niza], Castelo Branco, Belver, Abrantes, Silves, Loulé, Tavira, Coimbra, Louza [Lousã], Torre, Belmonte, Celorico,
Viseu, Castro Darie [Castro Daire], Lamego, Vila Real, Amarante,
Grumace, Valença, Vila do Conde, Oporto [Porto], Aveiro, Bucaco [Bussaco], Batalha, Nazaré, Acobaca [Alcobaça], Montemor-o-Velho,
Figueira da Foz, Leiria, Obidos, Peniche, Ericeira, Mafra,
Sintra, Cabo Raso, Cascais, people.
box 61
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 5, folder 3
9: León, Grajal de Campos, Palencia to Ampudia
box 5, folder 4
10: Ampudia, Monte Alegre, Villalba de los Alcores, Simancas, Torrelobatón, Castillo de la Mota, Coca
box 5, folder 5
16: Olite, Toledo, Past Soria & Soria, Calatayud
box 5, folder 6
18: Turégano, Segovia (Suragosse)
box 5, folder 7
19: Segovia, Toledo, Guadamur
box 5, folder 8
20: Guadamur, Almonacid, Cuenca
box 5, folder 9
21: Cuenca, Ciudad Encantada
box 31, box 32
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Madrid, El Escorial [San Lorenzo del Escorial], Avila, Barco de Avila, Plasencia, Beja, Candelario,
Miranda, La Alberca, Salamanca, Zamora, Benavente, La Bañeza,
Astorga, Astorga to Orense, Ciudad-Rodrigo, Vigo, Cangas, La Coruña, Lugo to Oviedo, Galicia, León to Palencia, Gijón
to León, Ampudia, Montalegre, Media del Campo [Medina del Campo],
Coca, Santander, Castro Urdiales, Bilbao (Plancia), San Sebastián, Zarauz, Zumaya [Zumaia], Deva, Ondárroa, Durango,
Vitoria, Quenca [Cuenca].
box 62
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 6, folder 5-6
70-3 Paris, Dieppe, Fécamp
box 6, folder 7
70-4 Étretat, Rouen, Les Andelys
box 6, folder 8
70-5 Andelys, Evreux, Caen, Falaise, Bayeux, Cherbourg
box 6, folder 9
70-10 Le Val-André, Paimpol, Lannion, Morlaix, Landerneau, Brest, Daoulas, Sizun, Le Faou, Camaret-sur-Mer, Alignements de
Lagatjar, Pointe de Pen-Hir
box 6, folder 10
70-11 Pointe de Pen Hir, Quimper, Concarneau, Pontivy, Josselin
box 6, folder 11
70-12 Josselin, Carnac, Vannes, Guérande, La Baule, Nantes
box 6, folder 12
70-13 Nantes, Châteaubriant, Laval, Le Mans
box 6, folder 13
70-14 Le Mans, Angers, Brissac, Montreuil-Bellay, Thouars
box 7, folder 1
70-16 Azay-le-Rideau, Loches, Chenonceaux, Amboise, Blois
box 7, folder 2
70-17 Blois, Chaumont, Le Moulin, Cheverny, Chambord, Talcy, Orléans
box 7, folder 3
70-18 Orléans, Sully-sur-Loire, Châteaudun, Chartres
box 33, box 34
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Paris, Reims, Laon, Amiens, Abbeville, Dieppe, Fécamp, Étretat, Le Havre, Rouen, Les Andelys, Vernon,
Evreux, Lisieux, Caen, Bayeux, Utah Beach, Barfleur, Cherbourg,
Urville, Port Racine, Coutances, Granville, Genêts, Mt. Saint Michel [Mont-Saint-Michel], Vougeres [Fougères?], Vitré,
Rennes, Combourg, Cancale, St. Malo [Saint-Malo], Dinan, Dinard, Cap
Fréhel, Erquy, St. Brieve [Saint-Brieuc?], Pampol [Paimpol], Tréguier, Morlaix, Landivisiau, Brest, Concarneau, Pontivy,
Carnac, Vannes, Guérande, Nantes, Châteaubriant, Laval, Le Mans,
Durtal, Angers, Serrant, Loire, Brissac, Montreuil-Bellay, Thouari [Thouars], Saumur, Chino [Chinon], Ussé, Langeas
[Langeais], Tours, Luynes, Azay-le-Rideau, Loches, Chenonceaux, Amboise,
Blois, Chaumont, Fougeres-s-Birvre [Fougères-sur-Bièvre], Le Moulin, Cheverny, Chambord, Talcy, Sully-sur-Loire, Châteaudun,
Chartres, Paris, Orly, the master in France [images of Hua Li],
seconds.
box 62
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 7, folder 5
71-3 Blois, Cour-Cheverny, Saint-Aignan, Loches, Chinon
box 7, folder 7
71-9 Perpignan, Collioure, Gruissan (Narbonne), Carcassonne
box 7, folder 9
71-17 Col de l'Asclier, Pont d'Hérault, Le Vigan, Ganges
box 7, folder 10
71-18 Montpellier, Carnon Plage, Le Grau du Roi, Aigues-Mortes, Saintes-Maries
box 7, folder 11
71-19 Camargue, Arles, Nîmes, Pont du Gard, Avignon
box 7, folder 12
71-20 Avignon, Les Antiques, Les Baux-de-Provence, Tarascon
box 7, folder 13
71-24 Salon-de-Provence, Orange, Vaison-la-Romaine
box 35, box 36, box 37
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Versailles, Rambouillet, Chartres, Châteaudun, Vendôme, Beaugency, Menars, Blois, Cheverny, St. Aignan
[Saint-Aignan], Montrésor, Loches, Chinon, Loudun, Poitiers,
Parthenay, Niort, La Rochelle, Talmont, Royan, Saintes, Blaye, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Biarritz, Orthez, Pau, Lourdes,
Arrens, Tarbes, Col d'Aspin, Arreau, Col de Peyresourde, Toulouse,
Carcassonne, Perpignan, Collioure, Narbonne, Gruissan, Béziers, Agde, Sète, Pezanas [Pézenas], Lodève, Millau, La
Roque St. Marguerite [La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite], Gorges de la Jonte,
Gorges du Tarn, La Malène, Peyreleau, Rocher de Capluc, Corniche des Cévennes, St. Jean-du-Gard [Saint-Jean-du-Gard],
Col de l'Asclier, Le Vigan, Stes Maries de Mer [Saintes-Maries],
Arles, Nîmes, Le Grau du Roi, Aigues-Mortes, Pont du Gard, Avignon, Tarascon, Les Antiques, Les Baux [Les Baux-de-Provence],
Marseille, Cassis, Toulon, Le Lavandou, Gassin, St. Tropez
[Saint-Tropez], Fréjus, St. Raphael [Saint-Raphaël], Cannes, Nice, Vence, Aix-en-Provence, Salon-de-Provence, Orange,
Vaison-la-Romaine, Vienne, Lyon, Paris, St. Germain [Saint-Germain],
the master in France [images of Hua Li].
box 62
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 8, folder 3
72-15 Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun, Nevers, La Charité-sur-Loire
box 8, folder 4
72-16 La Charité-sur-Loire, Clamecy, Auxerre, Avallon, Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Châtillon-sur-Seine
box 8, folder 5
72-18 Verdun, Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg
box 8, folder 6
72-20: Obernai, Koenigsbourg, Riquewihr
box 8, folder 7
72-23: Grand Ballon, Ronchamp, Besançon
box 8, folder 8
72-24: Besançon, Ornans, Pontarlier
box 37, box 38
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Annecy, Chambéry, Grenoble, Sassenage, Gorges de la Bourne, Château de Crussol, Valence, Crest, Grignan,
Gorges d'Ardeche [Ardèche Gorges], Vogüé, Aubenas, Le Puy, La
Charité [La Charité-sur-Loire], Auxerre, Avallon, Firminy, L'Arbresle, Vienne, Lyon, Bourg [Bourges?], Mâcon, Cluny,
Tournus, Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Nevers, Flavigny, Chaumont, Neufchâteau,
Vaucouleurs, Verdun, Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, Ht. Koenigsbourg [Haut-Koenigsbourg?], Ribeauvillé, Riquewihr, Sélestat,
Obernai, Kaysersberg, Colmar, Grand Ballon, Mulhouse, Besançon,
Ornans, Gorges Doubs [Gorges du Doubs], Ronchamp, myself [images of Hua Li].
box 62
Black-and-white negatives
box 39
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Zurich, Schaffausen [Schaffhausen], Stein-am-Rhein, Constance, St. Gallen, Schwyz, Brunnen, Andermatt,
Lucerne, Pilatus, Brienzwiler, Brienz, Grindelwald,
Jungfraujoch, Interlaken, Thun, Bern, Fribourg, Bulle, Gruyères, Château d'Oex, Col des Mosses, Geneva, Neuchâtel,
Bienne [Biel (Lake)], Solothurn, Olten, Zürichhorn, Basel, Aarau.
Federal Republic of Germany,
1973
box 62
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 8, folder 9
73-1 Frankfurt, Königstein, Friedberg, Butzbach, Limburg, Wiesbaden, Rüdesheim, Pfalz, Loreley-a-Rhine (Rhein)
box 8, folder 10
73-3 Moselle, Alken, Thurant, Ehrenburg, Cochem, Starkenburg, Traben-Trarbach, Ürzig, Bernkastel, Trier
box 40, box 41
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Frankfurt, Königstein, Friedberg, Butzbach, Limburg, St. Goarshausen [Sankt Goarshausen], Sterrenberg,
Marksburg, Wiesbaden, Rüdesheim, Pfalz, Lorley [Loreley],
Koblenz, Ehrenburg, Cochem, Beilstein, Enkirch, Starkenburg, Traben-Trarbach, Trier, Prüm, Bad Münstereifel, Köln
[Cologne], Bonn, Andernach, Stolzenfels, Rhens, Boppard, Rheinfels,
Gutenfels, Worms, Heidelberg, Hirschhorn, Zwingenberg, Bad Wimpfen, Stuttgart, Tübingen, Haigerloch, Rottweil, Boden
See [Lake Constance], Meersburg, Wasserburg am Inn, Lindau, Lindenberg,
Oberstaufen, Immenstadt [Immenstadt im Allgäu], Füssen, Königsschlösser, Unterammergau, Oberammergau, Kochel, Bad
Tölz, Tegernsee, Au, Schliersee, Chiemsee, Timmoning [Tittmoning], München
[Munich], Augsburg, Ulm, Nördlingen, Dinkelsbühl, Rothenburg, Weikersheim, Bad Mergentheim, Schwäbisch Hall, Ansbach,
Crailsheim, Heilsbronn, Nuremberg, Bad Kissingen, Bad Münnerstadt,
Brückenau, Fulda, Bamberg, Alsfeld, Kirdorf, Marburg, Mainz, rejects.
box 62
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 8, folder 11
74-14 Salzburg, Hohensalzburg, Sankt Gilgen, Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut
box 8, folder 12
74-17 Wien (Vienna), Museum of Fine Art, Schönbrunn Park
box 42, box 43
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Wien [Vienna], Neusiedl, Frauenkirchen, Mörbisch, Rust, Eisenstadt, Forchtenstein, Neunkirchen, Schneeberg,
Mürzzuschlag, Kindberg, Bruck an der Mur, Graz,
Riegersburg, St. Andra [Sankt Andrä], Klagenfurt, Hochosterwitz to Hollenberg [Hollenburg], Wörthersee, Villach, Millstadt
[Millstatt], Katschberg, Mauterndorf, Tweng, Tauern Pass,
Obertauern, Radstadt, Zell am See, Mittersill, Thurn Pass, Jochberg, Krimml Falls, Zell am Ziller, Schwaz, Volders,
Lans, Igls, Matrei, Europabrücke, Innsbruck, Seefeld [Seefeld in Tirol],
Stams, Ötz, Stroben Falls [Stuibenfall], Imst, Arlberg Pass, Feldkirch, Rankweil, Dornbirn, Bregenz, Egg, Bezau, Au,
Hochtannberg, Warth, Füssen, Forggensee [Forggen Lake (Germany)],
Königsschlösser, Alpsee, Neuschwanstein, Wies, Linderhof, Tegernsee, Kufstein, Ebbs, St. Niklaus [Sankt Nikolaus],
Walchsee, Kössen, St. Johann in Tirol, Erpfendorf, Lofer, Hallenstein,
Berchtesgaden, Königssee, Salzburg, St. Gilgen [Sankt Gilgen], St. Wolfgan [Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut], Bad
Ischl, Traunkirchen, Ort, Mondsee, Attersee, Obersalzberg, Linz, Bad
Leonfelden, St. Florian, Grein, Melk, Schönbuhel, Stein [Stein an der Donau], Krems [Krems an der Donau], Annaberg,
Mariazell, Puchberg [Puchberg am Schneeberg], Wiener Neustadt, Schloss
Schönbrunn, me in Austria & S. Germany, rejects.
box 66*
Mounted black-and-white photograph of the Temple of Athena Polis, Priene
box 44, box 45, box 46
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Istanbul, Bolu, Abent [Abant?], Akçakoca, İznik, Bursa, Erdek, Gönen, Troy (Ilion), Edremit, Bergama
(Pergamum), Sardis, Alaşehir, Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Nysia
[Nysa?], Efes (Ephesus), İzmir, Manisa, Teos, Kusadasi [Kuşadası], Priene, Miletus, Didyma, Euromos (Ayakli), Bodrum,
Marmaris, Fethiye, Kaş, Finike, Termessos (Güllük), Antalya, Perge
[Perga], Aspendus [Belkis], Side, Alanya, Anamur, Cennet Chenneni [Cennet and Cehennem Sinkholes?], Kizkalesi, Neapolis
[Nevşehir?], Pompeipolis [Soli-Pompeiopolis], Mersin, Tarsus, Adana,
Nevşehir, Ürgüp, Göreme, Üçhisar, Çavus [Çavuşin?], Aveila, Zelve, Soġanli, Kayseri, Hattusa (Boğazköy), Yazilikaya,
Alacahöyük, Ankara, Bolu, Alapli, Karasu, Kartal, Şile, Turkey friends,
rejects.
box 63
Black-and-white negatives
box 66*
Mounted black-and-white photograph of Dougga (Thugga)
box 47, box 48, box 49
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Zurich to Tunis, Tunis, Sidi Bou Said [Sīdī Abī Saʻīd], Carthage [Qarṭājannah], La Marsa [Al Marsá],
Utique, El Metline, El Alia, Bizerte, Tabarka [Ṭabarqah], Ain
Oraham [ʻAyn ad Darāhim], Bulla Regia, Jendouba, Bou salem, Beja [Bājah], Teboursouk [Tabursuq], Testour [Tastūr],
Ain Tounga, Dougga [Thugga], Agbia, Musti, Maktar, Kairouan [Qayrawān],
Sbeitla [Subayṭilah], Kasserine [Qaṣrayn], Gafsa [Qafṣah], Tozeur [Tawzar], Tocapae (Oasis of Gabes), Matmata, Metameur,
Medenine, Djerba, Sfax, El Djem [El Jem], Mahdia [Mahdīyah], Rass
Dimasse, Moknine, Lamta [Lemta], Sousse [Sūsah], Hergla, Takrouna, Monastir [Munastīr], Hammamet [Ḥammāmāt], Nabeul,
Kelibia [Qulaybīyah], Zaghouan [Zaghwān], Thuburbo Majus, Bardo Museum,
Aqueduc Romain, rejects.
box 1, folder 6
Postcards of Egyptian archaeological sites and antiquities
box 63
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 9, folder 2
77-2 Giza (Jīzah), Memphis, Sakkara (Ṣaqqārah), Cairo
box 9, folder 3
77-4 Aswān, Luxor, Karnak, Thebes
box 50
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Cairo, Giza [Jīzah], Memphis, Sakkara [Ṣaqqārah], Aswān, Deir el-Bahari, Karnak, Luxor.
Yugoslavia,
1978
Historical note
After the 1992 dissolution of Yugoslavia, the areas Hua Li visited became Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North
Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.
box 63
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 9, folder 5
78-1 Zagreb, Kostanjevica, Postojna, Koper, Piran
box 9, folder 6
78-2 Piran, Poreč, Rovinj, Bale, Vodnjan, Pula
box 9, folder 7
78-3 Pula, Plomin, Lovran, Rijeka, Novi, Senj, Plitvička Jezera, Zadar
box 9, folder 8
78-4 Zadar, Šibenik, Trogir
box 9, folder 10
78-7 Makarska, Hvar, Mostar
box 9, folder 11
78-8 Mostar, Počitelj, Ston
box 10, folder 2
78-12 Ivangrad, Đakovo, Skopje, Novi Sad, Banja Luka
box 10, folder 3
78-13 Sesvete, Varaždin, Trakošćan
box 51, box 52
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Zagreb, Samobor, Brežice, Kostanjevica, Ljubljana, Postojna Caves, Vodnjan, Pula, Bale, Rovinj, Piran,
Poreč, Koper, Šibenik, Trojir [Trogir], Zadar, Senj, Plitrice
Lakes [Plitvica], Barban, Plomin, Lovran, Rijeka, Novi [Novi Vinodolski?], Mostar, Sarajevo, Pociteli [Počitelj],
Hvar, Gradac, Makarska, Castle Stari [Stari grad?], Split, Salona,
Dubrovnik, Kotor, Korčula, Ston, Orebić, Traskoscan [Trakošćan], Banja Luka, Novi Sesvete, Varaždin, Skopje, Niš,
Novi Sad, Gradiška, Sv Stefen [Sveti Stefan], Skadarsko Jerezo [Lake
Scutari], Ivangrad [Berane].
Black-and-white photographs
box 10, folder 5
79-2 Hărman, Prejmer, Brașov, Rasnov, Bran, Poiana
box 10, folder 6
79-3 Făgăraș, Brașov, Feldioara, Rotbav, Maierus, Homorod, Saschiz, Sighișoara
box 10, folder 7
79-4 Sighișoara, Saros, Biertan, Brateiu, Mediaș, Axente Sever, Sibiu
box 10, folder 8
79-7: Lacu Rosu, Văratec Mănăstirea, Piatra Neamț, Mănăstirea Neamț
box 10, folder 9
79-8 Voroneț, Suceava, Mitocu Dragomirnei
box 10, folder 10
79-9 Iași, Galați, Mamaia Bai
box 53, box 54
Color slides and color photographs
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Bucharest, Ploiești, Brașov, Hărman, Prejmer, Poiana, Risnov [Rasnov], Bran, Făgăraș, Feldioara, Rotbav,
Maerus [Maierus], Rupea, Homorod, Sasobiz [Saschiz],
Sighisoara, Saros, Bientan [Biertan], Medias, Asente sever [Axente Sever], Sibiu, Cristian, Mercurea [Miercurea?],
Seves [Sebeș], Deva, Alba Iulia, Cluj Napaca [Cluj-Napoca], Tirgu Mures
[Târgu-Mureș], Gheorgheni, Lacu Rosu, P. Bicaz, Varater Minastirea [Văratec Mănăstirea], Vinatori Neamt [Vânători-Neamț],
Agapia Minastirea [Agapia Mănăstirea], Piatra Neamț, Neamt
Minastirea [Mănăstirea Neamț], Voronet, Suceava, Mitocu Dragaminei [Mitocu Dragomirnei], Botoșani, Iași, Galați, Brăila,
Constanța, Mamaia Bai, Istria, Mangalia, rejects.
box 66*
Black-and-white photographs of Soúnion and Athens
box 55, box 56
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Athens, Corinth, Nafplion [Nauplion], Epidauros [Epidaurus], Heraclion [Ērakleion], Knossus [Knossos],
Tilissos [Tylissos], Chania, Rethimnon [Rethymnon], Arkadi,
Samaria Gorge, Anojia [Anōgeia], Sitia [Sēteia], Kato Zakro, Vai, Toplou, Gortys, Phaestos [Phaistos], Rhodes, Lindos
[Lindhos], Thira [Santorini], Akrotiri [Akrōtēri], Pyrgos, Delphi
[Delphoi], Sounion [Soúnio Cape].
box 63
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 11, folder 4
82-4 Budapest, Szentendre, Visegrád
box 11, folder 5
82-7 Sümeg, Keszthely, Sárvár, Szombathely, Ják, Kaposvár, Szigetvár, Pécs
box 57, box 58
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Includes maps of Hungary and Budapest. Inscriptions include: Budapest, Szentendre, Visegrád, Esztergom, Tata, Pannonhalma,
Csesznek, Veszprém, Pápa, Tihany, Sümeg, Keszthely, Sárvár,
Szombothely [Szombathely], Ják, Kaposvár, Szigetvár, Pécs, Siklós, Mohács, Baja, Szeged, Hódmezövásárhely, Gyula,
Debrecen, Hortobágy, Szolnok, Salgótarján, Eger, Sárospatak.
Belgium and the Netherlands,
1983
box 63
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
box 11, folder 6
83-1 Bruxelles (Brussels)
box 11, folder 8
83-3 Bruxelles and Amsterdam
box 12, folder 1
83-8 Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Breda, Tilburg
box 12, folder 2
83-9 Hertogenbosch, Nijmegen
box 12, folder 3
83-10 Arnhem, Utrecht, Breukelen
box 12, folder 4
83-12 Zutphen, Enschede (Arnhem)
box 12, folder 5
83-13 Enschede, Deventer, Zwolle
box 12, folder 8
83-16 Leeuwarden, Harlingen
box 58, box 59, box 60
Color slides
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions include: Holland rejects, Brussels, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Den Haag [Hague], Delft, Rotterdam, Dordrecht,
Breder [Breda], Tilburg, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Utrecht, Breukelen,
Maassen [Maarssen], Amersfoort, Zutphen, Enschede, Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Harlingen, Afsluitdijk.
Miscellaneous,
1960s, 1989, undated
box 63
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
box 65
Photograph album including color photographs of Greece, Italy, and Spain,
circa 1960s, 1989
Scope and Contents
Includes portrait of Hua Li dated 1989.
Other papers, Series V.
1967-1984, undated
Physical Description: 4.63 Linear Feet(4 boxes and 1 flatfile folder)
Scope and Contents
Series V includes black-and-white negatives and photographs of antiquities from various museums, miscellaneous personal color
photographs and slides, and sketches and photographs of residential
interior design, possibly for Hua Li's house. It also includes two books on architecture.
Arrangement
Arranged loosely by format.
Flatfile 13**
Maps of Shanghai,
undated
Residential interior design,
circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Possibly for Hua Li's house in Arlington, Massachusetts.
box 64
Color photographs of kitchen
Photographs of antiquities,
1967, undated
Scope and Contents
Images of antiquities in museums in New York and Boston.
box 63
Black-and-white negatives
box 12, folder 9
Black-and-white photographs
box 64
Miscellaneous color negatives and slides,
1969-1984
Scope and Contents
Inscriptions on slide mounts include: flowers, frost/ice, snow, spring/summer/autumn/winter, house, repair/roof/chimney, Arlington
snow, lights, copies, Chinese opera, Dave Lounges [?],
Suk-ching, in Spain, Younie & Ken Wilkie, old friends, Los Angeles '76, Ty's House, Boston.
box 5, folder 10
Books,
1945-1950
Scope and Contents
Rebuilding Our Communities by Walter Gropius, 1945, and
L'unité d'habitation de Marseille by Le Corbusier, 1950.
