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Special Collections and University Archives UMass Amherst Libraries Patricia Lee Lewis Photograph Collection Digital 1977-1980 2 boxes (1 linear feet) Call no.: PH 059 About SCUA SCUA home Credo digital Scope Inventory Admin info Download xml version print version (pdf) Read collection overview A co-founder of the Valley Women's Center and the Everywoman's Center at UMass Amherst, Patricia Lee Lewis has been an important part of the vibrant activist culture in the Pioneer Valley since her graduation from Smith College in 1970, advocating for women, civil rights, peace, the environment, for small farms and rural communities, and for art. Her varied career has included service as Supervisor of Community Development for the Massachusetts Office for Children (1974-1976), as Rural Development Specialist for the Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Service, and as County Commissioner for Hampshire County (1984-1988). After receiving an MFA from Vermont College, she founded Patchwork Farm Writing Retreat in Westhampton in 1992, which offers workshops and retreats in creative writing and yoga. As a member of a National Women's Delegation, Lewis visited the People's Republic of China in 1977. Having been invited by the All China Women's Federation, Lewis and her colleagues toured the country, seeing the sights and examining the role of women, education, and agriculture, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tachai, and Guilin. The many hundreds of photographs she took during the tour are a powerful visual record of the country only a few months after the Gage of Four were arrested and the Cultural Revolution declared ended. The collection also includes approximately 100 photographs taken of agriculture and rural life in Louisiana and Texas in 1979. See similar SCUA collections: China Cold War culture Communism and Socialism Photographs Women Background on Patricia Lee Lewis A co-founder of the Valley Women's Center and the Everywoman's Center at UMass Amherst, Patricia Lee Lewis (a.k.a. Pat Sackrey) has been an important part of the vibrant activist culture in the Pioneer Valley since her graduation from Smith College in 1970, advocating for women, civil rights, peace, the environment, for small farms and rural communities, and for art. Her varied career has included service as Supervisor of Community Development for the Massachusetts Office for Children (1974-1976), as Rural Development Specialist for the Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Service, and as County Commissioner for Hampshire County (1984-1988). After receiving an MFA from Vermont College, she founded Patchwork Farm Writing Retreat in Westhampton, Mass., in 1992, which offers workshops and retreats in creative writing and yoga. In 1977, Lewis became part of a National Women's Delegation consisting of thirteen women (including six women of color) who were invited by the All China Women's Federation to visit the People's Republic of China and see the country's development in the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Organized by the U.S.-China People's Friendship Association, the delegation toured the PRC in March and April, visiting farms and centers for agricultural production, factories, schools, cities (including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Dazhai, Changsha, Shaoshan, Foshan, and Guangzhou), and touristic sites, from the Great Wall to Guilin. To fund her trip, Lewis gave slide show presentations with the support of future congressman John Olver and his wife Rose. Jade worker, Hunan Province, Mar. 1977 Scope of collection As a member of a National Women's Delegation, Lewis visited the People's Republic of China in 1977. Having been invited by the All China Women's Federation, Lewis and her colleagues toured the country, seeing the sights and examining the role of women, education, and agriculture, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tachai, and Guilin. The many hundreds of photographs she took during the tour are a powerful visual record of the country only a few months after the Gage of Four were arrested and the Cultural Revolution declared ended. The collection also includes approximately 100 photographs taken of agriculture and rural life in Louisiana and Texas in 1979. Inventory Tokyo: young women in traditional kimonos, hotel lobby (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 3 Tokyo airport: boarding plane, Chinese Airlines, flag on airplane tail (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 6 Tokyo airport: boarding plane, Chinese Airlines, flag on airplane tail (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 7 Tokyo airport: boarding plane, Chinese Airlines, flag on airplane tail -- Ruth Koster waving (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 8 Tokyo airport: boarding plane, Chinese Airlines, flag on airplane tail -- Anna Nieto-Gomez waving (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 9 Tokyo airport: boarding plane, Chinese Airlines, flag on airplane tail -- Anna Nieto-Gomez waving (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 10 Tokyo airport: boarding plane, Chinese Airlines, flag on airplane tail -- Ruth Sidel standing (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 11 Inside plane, Chinese stewardess (Tokyo, Japan) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 12 Chat between Anna Scott, Wei no. 2, and French-speaking guide (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 13 Tan and Chang talk with Ruth Sidel (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 14 Tai, Kuang chat with Ruth Koster (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 15 Cotton Mill No. 2: Woman at machine (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 17 Cotton Mill No. 2: machine process (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 18 Cotton Mill No. 2: spindles, women working (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 19 Cotton Mill No. 2: poster (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 20 Cotton Mill No. 2: women at spindles on rolling chairs (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 21 Cotton Mill No. 2: woman at spindles, close-up (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 22 Cotton Mill No. 2: two women in front of spools, smiling (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 23 Cotton Mill No. 2: machine with threads (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 24 Cotton Mill No. 2: our group milling about (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 25 Cotton Mill No. 2: factory clinic, barefoot doctor on phone, doctor's bag (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 26 Cotton Mill No. 2: two women at machien setting pattern for loom (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 27 Cotton Mill No. 2: big poster, women working at looms (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 28 Cotton Mill No. 2: illuminated screen, women looking for flaws in fabric (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 29 Cotton Mill No. 2: blackboard with chalk flags, women with fabrics (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 30 Cotton Mill No. 2: child in daycare center (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 31 Cotton Mill No. 2: child and adult in daycare center (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 32 Cotton Mill No. 2: several children and adults, daycare center (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 33 Cotton Mill No. 2: child in playpen (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 34 Cotton Mill No. 2: poster outdoors, women and shuttle in front of factory (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 35 Cotton Mill No. 2: poster outdoors, women and shuttle in front of factory (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 36 Hotel lobby: 'We have friends all over the world' (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 2: 37 Entrance to Forbidden City (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 1 Construction with bamboo scaffolding (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 2 Moat around Forbidden City (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 4 Moat around Forbidden City (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 5 Arched entrance to Forbidden City (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 6 In front of Forbidden City, people (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 7 In front of Forbidden City, People's Liberation Army soldiers (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 8 Through arch -- Forbidden City -- into Peking (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 9 Logs, men working (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 10 From bus: blurred people on bicycles (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 11 Bus stop scene (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 12 People shopping at noodle shop (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 13 Woman walking carrying shopping bag (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 14 Houses, woman carrying bundle, man on bicycle (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 15 Children playing (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 16 Man bicycling, carrying shipping bag on back (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 17 Shop -- street scene (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 18 Street scene (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 19 Shop, people, bicycles (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 20 Coldframes with rolled straw matting (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 21 Inside commune, first time (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 22 Wheat field (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 23 Pile of compost on field (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 24 Tree in middle of picture, sheep, wagon, people (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 25 Fields, compost piles, water in field (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 26 Drying bricks on Commune (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 27 Drying bricks, but tree in middle (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 28 Drying bricks, but tree in middle (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 29 Another tree in middle (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar. 19 Box 3: 30 People working in field (Beijing, China) 1977 Mar.