Manuscripts
Theodore K. Griffin letter and accompanying photographs
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Photographic postcards
Manuscripts
The four-page letter from Theodore K. Griffin to his brother Byron describes the sugarcane plantations, geography, local vegetation, and Indigenous populations in Luzon, Philippines. The 33 snapshots and 4 photographic post cards depict local Indigenous groups including Igorot children, American soldiers, airplanes, and an aviation wreck. Many of the photographs have handwritten descriptions on the back and some of the people identified are: Brigadier General Hagood; Brigadier General Mitchell; Colonel Hand; and "Chief Lucas," a local Indigenous man given that title by General Hagood. Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.
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Snapshots
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The four-page letter from Theodore K. Griffin to his brother Byron describes the sugarcane plantations, geography, local vegetation, and Indigenous populations in Luzon, Philippines. The 33 snapshots and 4 photographic post cards depict local Indigenous groups including Igorot children, American soldiers, airplanes, and an aviation wreck. Many of the photographs have handwritten descriptions on the back and some of the people identified are: Brigadier General Hagood; Brigadier General Mitchell; Colonel Hand; and "Chief Lucas," a local Indigenous man given that title by General Hagood. Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.
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Theodore K. Griffin letter to Byron
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This letter contains racist language to describe the Aeta people.
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Photographic postcards of individuals and groups in the Philippines
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A group of 29 photographic postcards and snapshots of people and activities in the Philippines prior to World War II. There are also images of indigenous Igorot peoples at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909 in Seattle, Washington, and a few photographs of Filipinos in San Francisco, including a group at the Filipino Community Methodist Church. Photographs taken in the Philippines include studio portraits (some with inscriptions in Tagalog), family groups, children, sports teams, and cock fighting. A 1945 image shows an overview of the Santo Tomas internment camp where Japanese authorities interned civilians during WWII. Some postcards have correspondence in English and were mailed to the United States. Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.
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M. K. (Morse K.) Taylor letter to Ira Bartholomew
Manuscripts
Letter from Dr. Morse K. Taylor to his colleague Dr. Ira Bartholomew, in which Taylor seeks to establish his claim over Dr. Jacob Da Costa as the physician who first described a condition of "heart diseases in the military service" (later called "military heart" or Da Costa's Syndrome). Taylor describes his service as a field surgeon during the Civil War, noting that his "investigation" into heart diseases began "in the field" at Cornith, Mississippi, in May 1862. In August of that year he was transferred to the general hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, and he describes furthering his research and quotes the number of admissions, deaths, and autopsies during his time at the hospital. He goes on to outline how his further research has verified his earlier conclusions, and that it is a "great satisfaction" to him that other surgeons had subsequently come to similar conclusions. Regarding Da Costa, Taylor writes that he had altered his views to be more in line with Taylor's in an 1871 article, and Taylor concludes that there was "now but little difference between us - no more...than might be expected to arise from different standpoints, civil and military." Taylor concludes by saying he is writing an article on "Heart Strain in the Military Service" for Wood's Reference Handbook. In a postscript, Taylor clarifies that he does not intend to "antagonize" Da Costa, conceding that "we were working simultaneously in the same direction unknown to each other." But he is firm in noting that "I do claim precedence" for having described the condition, and cites various correspondence and published papers to support his claim. The letter also mentions doctors by the names of Keeney, Woodward, Seitz, Myers, and Franzel.
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Theodore P. Lukens Collection of Negatives
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This collection consists of 213 glass plate negatives and 243 film negatives created by Pasadena, California, conservationist and civic leader Theodore Lukens (1848-1918) that depict scenes in and around Los Angeles County, Central California, and the Southwest from the 1880s into the early 1900s. The images depict schools in Pasadena; the Lukens house at 195 North Marengo in Pasadena (including interiors showing decorative objects such as Native American artifacts); members of the Lukens family; friends of the Lukens family (including John Muir and the family of John Brown); houses and hotels in Pasadena and South Pasadena; trees; the San Gabriel Mountains (including campers and camps, Bear Canyon, Mount Islip, the San Gabriel River, Governor Henry Harrison Markham and his camp, seed planting, and local flora); the San Jacino Mountains (including Idyllwild Hotel, Strawberry Valley, and local flora); the San Bernardino Mountains (including Bear Creek and Bear Valley, camping scenes, Seven Oaks Camp, Mount San Gorgonio, and local flora); Arizona and the Grand Canyon (including Walnut Canyon); the Sierra Nevada Mountains (including scenes in Calaveras, Fresno, Inyo, and Mono Counties, the Kern and King's Rivers, Devil's Postpile National Monument, Lake Tenaya, Mount Whitney, Yosemite, and local flora); a gold mine near Acton; lava rocks near Barstow; San Diego; the San Fernando Mission; and Santa Catalina Island. Prints of some of the negatives can be found in photograph albums that form part of the Papers of Theodore Lukens, housed in the Manuscripts Department of the Huntington Library.
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