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Contained in this series are Dale Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae and other information on his career as a professor of Chinese at Oberlin College.

This series contains an extensive collection of newspaper clippings regarding the Buddhist temple and its history. It also contains articles by and about Dale Johnson, which discuss Chinese and American culture, weaving, and Johnson’s collection of buttons depicting Mao Tse-Tung.

This series contains an extensive collection of newspaper clippings regarding the Buddhist temple and its history. It also contains articles by and about Dale Johnson, which discuss Chinese and American culture, weaving, and Johnson’s collection of buttons depicting Mao Tse-Tung.

This series consists of letters regarding the condition and ownership of the Buddhist temple. Correspondents include Johnson and representatives of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the First Kalmuk Budhist [sic] Temple, Indiana University, and Neighborhood Redevelopment Assistance of Chicago.

This series notably contains a timeline of the Buddhist temple’s history, copies of legal documents concerning the temple, and a printout of a website describing the temple’s partial restoration in Stockholm in the 1990s.

This series notably contains a timeline of the Buddhist temple’s history, copies of legal documents concerning the temple, and a printout of a website describing the temple’s partial restoration in Stockholm in the 1990s.

Gift agreement, Oberlin College.

This series notably contains a timeline of the Buddhist temple’s history, copies of legal documents concerning the temple, and a printout of a website describing the temple’s partial restoration in Stockholm in the 1990s.

This series contains additional materials relating to the Buddhist temple, including postcards, documents on the construction of the temple in English and Chinese, a restaurant menu, a stereoscope photograph, and a 1932 book on the temple and Buddhism by Sven Hedin.

Series VI consists of four documents, three of which are histories of the Buddhist temple. These are “American Saga of a Chinese Temple” by Dale Johnson, “The Chinese Lama Temple: The Golden Pavilion of Jehol” by Barbara Lipton, and “The Chinese Temple of Oberlin” by Victoria L. Getis. The series also contains photocopies of the first two chapters of the book Jehol: City of Emperors by Sven Hedin.