Daniel S. and Jane Balderston Dye Papers, 1905-1987

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Daniel S. and Jane Balderston Dye Papers, 1905-1987

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Substantive lettersrefer to the social and political scene in the Chengtu area, as well asproviding a thorough account of the educational mission work of the Dyes atWest China Union University. The papers include unique documentation ofpatterns and designs used in West China latticework, woven belts, and pottery.Drawings of hundreds of patterns and notes regarding their origin and symbolismare included. Daniel Sheets Dye taught academic courses at West China UnionUniversity in Chengtu, Szechuan Province, from 1910 to 1949, serving under theAmerican Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. As an avocation Dye recorded andanalyzed window lattice and woven belt patterns, which often had swastikadesigns, throughout West China. Jane Balderston went to West China in 1915,serving under the Friends Foreign Mission Association of Great Britain andIreland. After her marriage to Daniel Dye in 191, she taught mathematics andeducation courses at Woman's Normal School in Chengtu and West China UnionUniversity Normal School.

Totalarchival boxes 18 plus 1 oversize box and 1 oversize portfolio; total linearfootage 8'

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Dye, Jane Balderston, 1886-1976.

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Dye, Daniel Sheets

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1884 Feb Daniel Sheets Dye born in Ohio. 1886 Apr Jane Canby Balderston born in Maryland. 1907 DSD graduated from Denison University, Phi Beta Kappa. 1908 JBD graduated from Wellesley College. 1908 DSD went to Szechuan, West China to study Chinese in preparation for teaching science at West China Union University. 1908-1915 JBD taught at secondary schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 1910-1949 DSD taught at West Ch...