Manuscripts
Rollin W. Maxam album of photo postcards from North Dakota
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Elmer D. Wallace Consitutional Convention of North Dakota drafts of speeches and letters
Manuscripts
This group of manuscripts, allegedly written by Elmer D. Wallace, are miscellaneous drafts from the Consitutional Convention of North Dakota held in 1889. All four parts are incomplete.
mssHM 48792
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Railroad Commissioners map of North Dakota
Rare Books
Stamp: Compliments of the Commissioners of Railroads. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Town index. MS note: Map of North Dakota Belle Hopland(?).
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Album of Photographic Postcards of Mexican border wars
Visual Materials
An album of photographic postcards pertaining to battles along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Mexican Revolution, approximately 1913-1916. Images include soldiers and officers, military camp life, views of artillery and trenches, Yaqui Indian soldiers, U.S. Army cavalry and refugee camps. Notable among the photographs are many views of dead soldiers and executions by hanging or firing squad. The compiler of this disbound album is unknown; photographs are mounted on paper album pages, and there are many handwritten captions on the pages. Dates written in captions range between 1913 and 1916, and several make reference to battles at Naco and Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico in 1913. Other locations represented include military encampments at Nogales, Arizona and Agua Prieta; a refugee camp at Douglas, Arizona; and a bird's-eye-view of the town of Columbus, New Mexico. Some photographs show child soldiers brandishing guns, civilian spectators viewing bodies, and one view of a U.S. airplane squadron. There are three photographs of Pancho Villa, including a group portrait with Gen. Rodolfo Fierro and Gen. Hugh Lenox Scott. Other portraits include Álvaro Obregón and officers; Yaqui leader Luis Bule; Francisco I. Madero; Pascual Orozco and General P.E. Calles. There is one view of the dead body of Enrique Portillo; other photographs of executed men are identified by nicknames or surnames only. Most of the photographic postcards are by Walter H. Horne (credit "W.H. Horne Co.") of El Paso, Texas, with several also by photographer Calvin ("Cal") Osbon of Douglas, Arizona. Osbon's photographs are notable for lengthy, descriptive captions imprinted in the images. The formats are almost all photographic postcards, except for a few smaller photographs and one larger group portrait labelled "Carranza Cabinet" showing Venustiano Carranza and others at Agua Prieta, May, 1914.
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Photograph album
Visual Materials
This collection contains photographs taken or compiled by Philip B. Harris, related to his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Railway and his service as a captain in the U.S. Army Engineers, World War I. The majority of railroad construction scenes are related to the Los Angeles Railway, approximately 1905-1920s. Images include: construction and engineering work on railroads in the Los Angeles area; Harris and other men working on surveying projects, 1902, in Mount Lowe and Garvanza; survey parties in the California Sierras and San Bernardino Mountains. Some images appear to depict the Pacific Electric Railway construction surveying party that Harris was put in charge of soon after he graduated, in 1901. A photograph album, 1901-approximately 1919, includes views of Redondo Beach; personal images of Harris and family members; San Pedro Harbor; and railroad tracks being laid for a streetcar line. Several images show Latino workers digging and laying tracks, approximately 1903. The album has handwritten captions for several photographs, but many scenes are unidentified. The images of World War I France include 52 photographs by Harris, with some commercial photographic postcards. Images show war ruins; decorated graves; battlefields; soldiers; people at train stations; countryside scenes, and a group portrait of Harris and other uniformed soldiers at Roymeaux Field, May 21, 1919. There are also photographic postcards of various tourist scenes in France and war-damaged buildings. Box 3 contains a rolled panoramic photograph of over 100 soldiers, including Harris, of the U.S. Army corps of engineers, 1918, at Fort Harrison, Indiana. The collection also includes a typewritten biographical sketch of Harris and a list of names and addresses of engineers and railroad workers from Harris' address book.
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Aurora Studio and Kenji Uchida photographic postcards of the Philippines
Visual Materials
A collection of 52 photographic postcards and some unmounted photographs of the Philippines created by two Japanese-owned photography studios based in Zamboanga City prior to World War II. The images by Kenji Uchida and the Aurora Studio date from approximately 1906 to the 1930s and depict scenes in the Zamboanga region with a few in Jolo. Subjects include people in everyday activities; street scenes and bird's-eye-views; Moro people praying in the chapel; coconut husking on a farm; ships; schools, prisons, and church buildings. Most photographs have identifying captions produced on the prints.
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Aurora Studio and Kenji Uchida photographic postcards of the Philippines
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A collection of 52 photographic postcards and some unmounted photographs of the Philippines created by two Japanese-owned photography studios based in Zamboanga City prior to World War II. The images by Kenji Uchida and the Aurora Studio date from approximately 1906 to the 1930s and depict scenes in the Zamboanga region and Jolo. Subjects include people in everyday activities; street scenes and bird's-eye-views; Moro people praying in the chapel; coconut husking on a farm; ships; schools; and church buildings. Most photographs have identifying captions produced on the prints.
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