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Should be "K. F. Shah", as he appears several other times in the Bain Collection. I am having difficulty finding any non-Bain biographical sources on him, though.

Correct: should be Shah. From A Chinese student publication from 1914: He was a foreign minister from China. Earlier a student at Columbia University. Arrived in New York on his way to Washington DC, with his wife, five children and sixteen servants.

NYT of April 6, 1914 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50712FE3F5A1273... "K. F. Shah, the first Minister to Washington of the new Chinese Republic, arrived yesterday on the HamburgAmerican liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with a retinue of eleven persons, besides his wife and four children."

He is Kai Fu Shah (Xia Xiefu), and had been China's Consul General in New York from 1903 to 1908. During that period, he was mentioned regularly in the New York newspapers. In 1914, he arrived in Washington, via New York, as the first envoy to the U.S. of the newly recognized Chinese Republic, and this seems to be the press photo opportunity of April 14, 1914 on the occasion (in Washington) of the presentation of his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chinese Legation, to the State Department. www.state.gov/s/cpr/91588.htm There are multiple photos from this event in the LOC"s Harris & Ewing collection: www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=kai%20fu%20shah This shot was taken by the Clinedinst Studio of Washington, D.C., a prominent studio so ubiquitous in its Federal Government portraits and subjects that it was sometimes referred to as the Court Photographer of Washington. 19thcenturybaltimore.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/barnett-m-c...

bior, dhelling01, swanq, and artolog: Thanks for providing us with correct information for Shah. We will correct our data next time we update.

Fella on the right there showing off his fine evening wear.

On June 8, 1915. a Chinese trade delegation visited Thomas Edison in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, where he lived. There were 18 in the delegation, with three secretaries. Some of them are indentifed in this new york times account: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9902E6D81338E6...

Pennyrichardsca found this account of the trip in Electrical World Magazine:

"The commission spent the entire day of June 8 at the plant of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., traveling in a special train directly to the establishment. The members of the commission were received by Mr. Edison in the laboratory and were then taken by Mr. M. R. Hutchison, chief engineer, on a tour of the buildings. The morning was spent in the Edison Storage Battery Company building. The members of the commission and the large party accompanying them were entertained at lunch and afterward viewed educational, comic and talking moving pictures. The guests also saw a demonstration of the machine that records telephone conversations."
books.google.com/books?id=Z2sfAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22J.%20H.%...

Thanks to both of you for this excellent research into the visit by the trade commission. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

"Sun Fo or Sun Ke (Chinese: 孫科; pinyin: Sūn Kē; October 21, 1895 – September 13, 1973), courtesy name Zhesheng (哲生), was a high-ranking official in the government of the Republic of China. He was the son of Sun Yat-sen and his first wife Lu Muzhen." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Fo This may be from his student days in New York, where he received an M.S. degree from Columbia University in 1917.

Likely Sun Fo, son of Chinese revolutionary figure Sun Yat-sen, sometime Mayor of Guangdong: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Fo Kind of cool to see him as a young undergraduate--he would have been in his senior year at Berkeley in 1916.

Another photo of the young Sun Fo with his father, Sun Yat-sen in: www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=03...

artolog, Ouij and B-59: Thank you for all providing information about Sun Fo. We will add further details to the catalog record.

A beautiful little island of Democracy that should be preserved and protected and given diplomatic recognition by the West. Communist China, has no rightful or legal claim to Taiwan (Republic of China), according to International Law . . . Read New York Law Review Paper, by Christopher J. Carolan. Also, Taiwan's true history should be considered, especially its Aboriginal culture, consisting of 14 distinct tribes, that dress and resemble Native Americans. "One China Policy" is a lie. Also, Taiwan has always been a friend of America, especially during the Vietnam Conflict, where American forces did their R&R and based their long range Flight Operations . . .