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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1923-1924
Call number: mssGriffin
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Theodore K. Griffin letter and accompanying photographs

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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Photographic postcards

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mssGriffin

Indigenous people; studio portraits; large group portraits

Visual Materials

Photographic postcards identified with the name of an Indigenous group, primarily Bagobo, Igorot, Moro, Negrito, and others. Note that the identifications may not be accurate. See also Binder 1 for unidentified photographs of Indigenous people. The studio portraits include women with beauty contest titles, and other women and men in formal dress. There are also portraits of couples and family groups. The large group portraits are mostly titled with the name of the association, club, or school.

photCL 701

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Indigenous people; studio portraits; large group portraits

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photCL 701

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Snapshot photographs

Visual Materials

A collection of 56 black and white snapshot photographs mounted on pages of a photograph album. The photographs depict people, activities, and scenery on the islands of Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawai'i in approximately 1910. The photographs include Native Hawaiians and a thatched building, Chinese and Japanese laborers, and agriculture such as rice fields, sugarcane, and a pineapple plantation. Nearly all of the photographs are labeled with handwritten captions. One caption refers to the visitors camping in the mountains of Kaua'i at "Mr. Gay's" during Halley's Comet. Images of Honolulu include Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, Iolani Palace, and Waikiki. There are also group photographs of travelers onboard the SS Mongolia and SS Wilhelmina traveling from "San Francisco to Honolulu." One album page has two photographs of the "Grizzly Giant" tree in Yosemite Valley, California.

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The lathe of heaven

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George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.

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