Nixon
in China
The
two-part number code refers to the original folder in the Atkins Collection. Photographs
taken by Oliver Atkins are indicated by [OFA]. Photographs by Byron Schumaker
are indicated by [BES]. Photographs by the China News Agency are indicated by
[CNA].
1. 6-12-8 | 
2. 6-14-1 | |
1.
Young Woman. [BES]
2. Red Guard. [BES]
3. 6-12-3 | 
2. 6-12-4 | 
5. 6-13-19 |
3.
Preparing for Nixon's arrival by sweeping the snow in Beijing. [BES]
4. Beijing
at Dusk. [OFA]
5. Early morning Beijing traffic. [BES]
6. 6-12-16 | 
7. 6-12-17 | 
8. 6-12-18 |
6.
Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger on Air Force One en route
to China. [OFA]
7. Nixon addressing his staff aboard Air Force One. [OFA]
8. Nixon reading aboard Air Force One. [OFA]
9. 6-12-15 | 
10. 6-12-12 |
|
9.
Nixon meeting with his advisors aboard Air Force One. [OFA]
10. Nixon in
thought before his arrival in China. [OFA]
11. 6-12-7 | 
2. 6-14-14 | 
5. 6-12-6 |
11.
Chinese village at dawn. [OFA]
12. Old man with parasol. [BES]
13. Chinese
countryside at dawn. [BES]
14. 6-14-13 | 
2. 6-14-3 | 
5. 6-13-13 |
14.
Chinese school children touring the Forbidden City. [BES]
15. Chinese architecture.
[BES]
16. Tiananmen Square. [OFA]
17. 6-13-14 | 
2. 6-12-9 | 
5. 6-14-8 |
17.
Workers sharing an outdoor meal. [OFA]
18. Man reading a newspaper. [BES]
19. Chinese river boats. [BES]
20. 6-12-2 |
| |
20.
Nixon and Kissinger meeting Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
[CNA]
21. 6-14-9 | 
22. 6-13-12 | 
23. 6-14-24 |
21.
President Nixon reviewing Red Guard, escorted by Premier Chou En-lai. [OFA]
22. Nixon making a point to Chou En-lai. [OFA]
23. Nixon and Chou En-lai
share a toast. [OFA]
24. 6-13-3 | 
25. 6-14-5 | 
26. 6-13-17 |
24.
Pat Nixon meeting farmers. [BES]
25. The President being introduced to a
little girl, possibly Chou En-lai's granddaughter. [OFA]
26. Pat Nixon meeting
a schoolgirl. [BES]
27. 6-12-10 | 
2. 6-13-1 | 
5. 6-14-12 |
27.
Nixon talking with press corps in Beijing. [BES]
28. Ollie Atkins(r) with
Nixon advance man Ron Walker at the Great Wall. [BES]
29. Ollie Atkins(r)
with news photographer Frank Cancellare in Beijing. [BES]
30. 6-13-2 | 
31. 6-13-5 | 
32. 6-13-6 |
30.
Little girl dancing for the Presidential party. [BES]
31. Chinese schoolroom
in the Evergreen People's Commune. [BES]
32. Pat Nixon visiting pandas at
Beijing Zoo. [BES]
33. 6-13-7 | 
34. 6-13-8 | 
35. 6-13-9 |
33.
The Host and Presidential parties attending a special performance of The Red
Detachment of Women. [OFA]
34. Scene from The Red Detachment of Women.
[BES]
35. Nixon with Madam Mao, Jiang Qing (of the famous "Gang of Four")
at the performance. [BES]
36. 6-10-10 | 
37. 6-14-2 | 
38. 6-13-11 |
36.
The Nixons with Chou En-lai. [OFA]
37. White House press corps group photo
with the President in Beijing. [BES]
38. The Nixons share a laugh with Chou
En-lai. [OFA]
39. 6-14-4 | 
2. 6-14-16 | 
5. 6-14-10 |
39.
Nixon touring a factory. [OFA]
40. The Nixons with Secretary of State William
Rogers at the Great Wall. [BES]
41. Presidential party touring the Forbidden
City. [OFA]
42. 6-14-11 | 
2. 6-14-6 | 
5. 6-14-15 |
42.
The Forbidden City in a snow storm. [OFA]
43. Nixon and Chou En-Lai at a
banquet. [OFA]
44. Chinese children exercising. [BES]
45. 6-13-13 | 
46. 6-14-23 | 
5. 6-13-16 |
45.
Tiananmen Square. [OFA]
46. West Lake pagoda at Hangchow. [OFA]
47.
Presidential party touring the Great Wall of China. [BES]
48. 6-14-18 | 
49. 6-14-20 |
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48.
Young people attending a special table tennis exhibition for the Presidential
party. [OFA]
49. The Nixons and Chou En-lai applauding the table tennis exhibition.
[OFA]
50. 6-14-21 |
| |
50.
Wide-angle shot of table tennis exhibition. [BES]
51. 6-13-15 | 
52. 6-13-18
| 
53. 6-14-17 |
51.
The Great Wall of China, guarded by a sentinel. [OFA]
52. Nixon takes a coffee
break in Beijing. [OFA]
53. Pat Nixon observing a Chinese class. [BES]
54. 6-12-14 | 
55. 6-12-5
| 
56. 6-13-4 |
54.
White House press corps in Beijing. [OFA]
55. President Nixon, Secretary
of State Rogers, and Premier Chou En-lai. [OFA]
56. Nixon studying his notes
in Beijing. [OFA]
57. 6-14-7 | 
58. 6-12-1
| 
59. 2-9-1 |
57.
Socialist billboard in Beijing. [OFA]
58. Nixon meets Mao Tse-tung. [OFA]
59. Kissinger, Premier Chou En-lai, and Chairman Mao Tse-tung. [OFA]
Protests
of the 1960s
Civil
Rights March - 1963
1. 28-1-33 | 
2. 28-4-13
| 
3. 28-14-17 |
1.Crowd
in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
2.Labor group at March.
3.Vendor selling
pennants.
4. 28-5-6 | 
5. 28-7-15
| 
6. 28-4-19 |
4.Marching
down Constitution Avenue.
5.Actor Charlton Heston and singer Harry Belafonte.
6.Crowds around the Mall.
7. 28-4-26 | 
8. 28-8-24
| 
9. 28-1-9 |
7.Marchers
resting and soaking their feet in the Reflecting Pool.
8.Singer and actor,
Sammy Davis, Jr.
9.Local Virginia group from Loudoun County on the Mall.
Women's March for Peace
- 1968
10. 552-6-2 | 
11. 552-6-3
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|
10.Women
holding a banner in front of the Capitol.
11.Folk singer Judy Collins (with
guitar) and Swedish film star, Viveca.
Poor Peoples' March on Washington - 1968
12. 92-1-2 | 
13. 92-1-16
| 
14. 91-2-5 |
12.
Workers making picket signs in Resurrection City.
13.A family living in Resurrection
City.
14.Poor Peoples' March Organizer, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
15. 91-4-3 | 
16. 94-8-3
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17. 92-1-8 |
15.
Resurrection City barber shop.
16.Volunteers making bread.
17.Volunteers
distributing picket signs.
18. 91-4-5 | 
19. 91-5-1
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20. 92-slide-1 |
18.
Resurrection City day care center.
19.Volunteer construction workers.
20. Religious groups at the March.
21. 91-20-13 | 
22. 94-1-3
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23. 91-4-15 |
21.
Residents at lunch.
22.Resurrection City after a rain shower.
23. Distribution
of donated clothing.
24. 91-5-4 | 
25. 91-22-5
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26. 94-12-5 |
24.Residents
outside one of the makeshift houses.
25.Resurrection City at dusk.
26.A
soldier carries a child that collapsed at a Justice Department demonstration.
27.
A family living in Resurrection City.
28.More groups at the March.
29.Young
girl getting water from a spigot.
30. 91-16
30.
Aerial views of riot damage in Washington D.C.
African-American Leaders of the 1960s
1. 1-28-21 | 
2. 28-7-110 | 
3. 28-8-24 |
1.
Martin Luther King greeting friends and well-wishers during the March on Washington,
August 1963.
2. Roy Wilkins walking with Walter Reuther of the United Auto
Workers (UAW) in the March, August 1963.
3. Sammy Davis, Jr., walking in
the March, August 1963.
4. 28-10-26 | 
5. 28-10-18 | 
6. 1-28-18 |
4.
Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) speaking during the March, August 1963.
5. A. Philip Randolph of
the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
speaking during the March, August 1963.
6. Officials of the March with President
Kennedy in his office at the White House, August 1963. (Left to right: Sec. of
Labor W. Willard Wirtz; Floyd McKissick, Congress on Racial Equality (CORE); Matthew
Ahman, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference of Interracial Justice;
Whitney Young, National Urban League; Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Lewis,
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American
Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Commission on Race Relations for National
Council of Churches; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO; President John F. Kennedy; Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson; Walter Reuther, UAW; and Roy Wilkins, CORE.
7. 33-9-12 | 
8. 35-8-26 | 
9. 39-12-9 |
7.
Martin Luther King, Jr., outside the White House, January 1964.
8. Malcolm
X sitting in the U.S. Capitol Building during consideration of the Civil Rights
Bill, March 1964.
9. President Lyndon B. Johnson with King at the signing
of the Civil Rights Bill, June 1964.
10. 258-2-35 | 
11. 269-6-8 | 
12. 51-2-24 |
10.
Duke Ellington (in center) at the Washington Jazz Festival, June 1962.
11.
President Johnson with Roy Wilkins in the presidential study, March 1965.
12. President Johnson with Thurgood Marshall at a White House press conference,
July 1965.
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15.
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13.
Thurgood Marshall before the Senate Judiciary Committee on nomination to the Supreme
Court, June 1967.
14. Adam Clayton Powell (second from left) on the floor
of the House of Representatives waiting to see if he would be permitted to take
his seat; he was refused, January 1967.
15. Powell stands and watches while
other House members take the oath of office, January 1967.
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16.
Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) and Andrew
Young testify before a Senate Committee, March 1968.
17. Reverend Jesse Jackson
at "Resurrection City" in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C., May 1968.
18. Reverend Jesse Jackson at "Resurrection City" speaking to news reporters,
May 1968.
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20.
94-7-6 92-3-12
19.
Hosea Williams during a demonstration at the Department of Justice, June 1968.
20. Coretta Scott King at the Poverty March, Washington, D.C., June 1968.
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