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Photographs related to the U.S. Navy in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II
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H. Leroy Carlson collection of photographs from New Guinea and the Philippine Islands
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A collection of 447 photographs in two albums and other material related to the U.S. Navy in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II. The photographs were made by commercial photographer and sailor H. Leroy Carlson, who created the albums as an inventory of his images for sale as souvenirs and postcards. A printed catalog with descriptive captions accompanies the albums. The first volume contains photographs taken in Finchhaven, British New Guinea (April 1944), and Hollandia and vicinity, Dutch New Guinea, from 1944 to 1945, including Japanese prisoners of war. The second volume of photographs were taken in the Philippines (1945), with scenes in Mindoro, Manila, Luzon, Tacloban, San Antonio, and a U.S. Navy receiving station. Images depict New Guinea and Filipino people in portraits and daily activities, along with street scenes, shops, rural villages, houses, tropical gardens, wedding celebrations, fishing, and other activities. Images in the Philippines include bombed-out buildings, schools, churches, a Chinese cemetery, indigenous Mangyan people, and Javanese (Indonesian people). U.S. military personnel are seen working, in barracks, on navy ships, and participating in recreational activities. Three of Carlson's 16mm motion picture films are also part of the collection: one of the naval Seabees Camp in New Guinea during World War II; and two home movies of Carlson family trips to New York, Nicaragua, Yellowstone, and Canada. Other personal materials are: a volume of clippings (1947-1949) of Carlson's photographs published in Lake Tahoe, California newspapers; the Cine-Kodak Magazine 16mm movie camera used to shoot the films; and several snapshots, negatives, color slides, and miscellaneous ephemera related to Carlson and his family. A hand-held Airequipt automatic 35mm slide changer (1950s?) for viewing color slides is also part of the colleciton.
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Carlson family material and film reel of Navy Seabees in New Guinea during World War II
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Negatives and color slides are of the Carlson family and unidentified people. Seabees camp, New Guinea during World War II Carlson family trips to New York, Nicaragua and Yellowstone National Park Clouds, various views
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Carlson family materials
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A collection of 447 photographs in two albums and other material related to the U.S. Navy in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II. The photographs were made by commercial photographer and sailor H. Leroy Carlson, who created the albums as an inventory of his images for sale as souvenirs and postcards. A printed catalog with descriptive captions accompanies the albums. The first volume contains photographs taken in Finchhaven, British New Guinea (April 1944), and Hollandia and vicinity, Dutch New Guinea, from 1944 to 1945, including Japanese prisoners of war. The second volume of photographs were taken in the Philippines (1945), with scenes in Mindoro, Manila, Luzon, Tacloban, San Antonio, and a U.S. Navy receiving station. Images depict New Guinea and Filipino people in portraits and daily activities, along with street scenes, shops, rural villages, houses, tropical gardens, wedding celebrations, fishing, and other activities. Images in the Philippines include bombed-out buildings, schools, churches, a Chinese cemetery, indigenous Mangyan people, and Javanese (Indonesian people). U.S. military personnel are seen working, in barracks, on navy ships, and participating in recreational activities. Three of Carlson's 16mm motion picture films are also part of the collection: one of the naval Seabees Camp in New Guinea during World War II; and two home movies of Carlson family trips to New York, Nicaragua, Yellowstone, and Canada. Other personal materials are: a volume of clippings (1947-1949) of Carlson's photographs published in Lake Tahoe, California newspapers; the Cine-Kodak Magazine 16mm movie camera used to shoot the films; and several snapshots, negatives, color slides, and miscellaneous ephemera related to Carlson and his family. A hand-held Airequipt automatic 35mm slide changer (1950s?) for viewing color slides is also part of the collection.
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Cine-Kodak Magazine 16 movie camera, in original box
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A collection of 447 photographs in two albums and other material related to the U.S. Navy in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II. The photographs were made by commercial photographer and sailor H. Leroy Carlson, who created the albums as an inventory of his images for sale as souvenirs and postcards. A printed catalog with descriptive captions accompanies the albums. The first volume contains photographs taken in Finchhaven, British New Guinea (April 1944), and Hollandia and vicinity, Dutch New Guinea, from 1944 to 1945, including Japanese prisoners of war. The second volume of photographs were taken in the Philippines (1945), with scenes in Mindoro, Manila, Luzon, Tacloban, San Antonio, and a U.S. Navy receiving station. Images depict New Guinea and Filipino people in portraits and daily activities, along with street scenes, shops, rural villages, houses, tropical gardens, wedding celebrations, fishing, and other activities. Images in the Philippines include bombed-out buildings, schools, churches, a Chinese cemetery, indigenous Mangyan people, and Javanese (Indonesian people). U.S. military personnel are seen working, in barracks, on navy ships, and participating in recreational activities. Three of Carlson's 16mm motion picture films are also part of the collection: one of the naval Seabees Camp in New Guinea during World War II; and two home movies of Carlson family trips to New York, Nicaragua, Yellowstone, and Canada. Other personal materials are: a volume of clippings (1947-1949) of Carlson's photographs published in Lake Tahoe, California newspapers; the Cine-Kodak Magazine 16mm movie camera used to shoot the films; and several snapshots, negatives, color slides, and miscellaneous ephemera related to Carlson and his family. A hand-held Airequipt automatic 35mm slide changer (1950s?) for viewing color slides is also part of the collection.
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Photograph album of the Philippines during the Spanish American War
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An album with 114 professional photographs, with handwritten captions, taken during the Spanish American War, mostly in the Philippines, including graphic scenes of trench warfare, battlefield dead and wounded, prisoners, and the burning of towns and dwellings. Among the locations in the Philippines shown are Manila, Caloocan, Pasig River, and the Pasay road. Photographs taken outside of the Philippines show Japan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and the Golden Gate, California. Other photographs show troop encampments, scenes of village or town life, and war ruins. There are views of officers' and enlisted men's quarters, and facilities for support staff such as cooks, the Signal Corps, and the Red Cross. There are a few street scenes with Filipino men in Western clothing, women, and children. Photographs of people include Admiral George Dewey, captioned "Admiral Dewey's last day in Manila, paying the coachman"; General Frederick Funston; and Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis. Many of the photographs have the imprint of Perley Fremont Rockett, the official photographer of the 20th Kansas Regiment. There are also 11 (5 x 9 cm) photographs of American and Spanish ships, which seem to have been cut out from an unknown source.
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Photograph album of U.S. Asiatic Fleet serviceman stationed in the Philippines
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A photograph album chronicling the travels of an unidentified U.S. Navy Reserve officer while serving with the Asiatic Fleet and the Pacific Reserve Fleet, from 1912 to 1920, while stationed in the Philippines. The photographs also incude Shanghai, China and San Diego, San Pedro, and San Francisco, California, with a visit to the Panama Pacific International Exposition. There are also images of the USS Maumee launching in California, the USS South Dakota, and several other Navy vessels and facilities in and around Manila, Subic Bay, and the naval base at Olangapo, Philippines. The mostly snapshot images also depict Philippine residents in everyday activities, a 1920 Fourth of July parade, indigenous Philippine inhabitants in an archery contest, street scenes, and a funeral. Handwritten captions appear throughout the album, and some images have captions in the negative.
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