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Collection of photographs of U.S. Army Philippine Scouts

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Description: A collection of 69 photographs of military reviews, maneuvers, parades, and concerts of members of the Philippine Scouts' 4th Battalion, 8th Battalion, 11th Battalion, 19th, 30th, 31st 32nd, and 44th Companies at locations including Ludlow Barracks at Camp Mindanao and Camp Vicars. There are also various views of American officers and officer quarters; military ships in harbor; views of Manila; and visiting dignitaries such as Governor Emmet D. Hoyle of Nevada. The numerous photographs of the Ludlow Barracks include vies of the docks, Captain's quarters, tennis courts, and the old Spanish Fort. Other photographs show hotels and docks in Manila, Matalag River and falls, and Lake Lanao.
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Production date: 1913-1915
Call number: photCL 66
Provenance: Provenance unknown.

Photographs of Western U.S. Army Forts

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Views of frontier United States Army forts in Wyoming and Nebraska made by Pvt. Charles Howard, 1876-1877, and two views of Fort Wingate, New Mexico, ca. 1870s by an unidentified photographer. The photographs are mostly broad views of the military posts and their surrounding landscapes, showing cavalry, barracks and other buildings. The forts illustrated are Camp Canby, Camp Sheridan and Camp Robinson in Nebraska; Fort Fetterman, Fort Laramie and Fort McKinney in Wyoming Territory; and Fort Wingate in New Mexico. Besides views of the forts, there is one view of the town of Cheyenne; the Red Cloud Indian Agency, Nebraska; and a group portrait of soldiers and their families at Fort Wingate.

photCL 292

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Collection of Philippine hemp fiber industry photographs

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After the Philippines became a colony of the United States in 1898, Manila hemp became the nation's most important export item, making up 72% of the nation's total export value. The material was widely used for making rope, twine, paper, bags, shoes, hats, dresses, and other everyday commodities. The collection includes 36 loose photographs. These include images of Filipino workers cultivating, transporting, and processing fibers from hemp plants. Also included are photographs of Filipino and presumably, American workers operating and posing with hemp processing machinery. Other photographs include industrial machines for breaking and spinning fibers, ships for transporting, Henequen plants and Manila trees, Manila hemp fibers hung for drying, Manila hemp seeds, and an image of a native Philippine shelter.

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Collection of Philippine hemp fiber industry photographs

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Camp Wm. Penn

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A battalion of Union soldiers stand at attention, lead by two officers on horseback. Also shown are the barracks of Camp William Penn with a small covering of snow.

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U.S. Army - March Field Anti-Aircraft Training Base and Housing for Personnel

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Location: Riverside Co., California Job #: 544 Architect/Designer: Lippincott, Joseph Barlow ; Bowen, Oliver G. Format: Photographic prints ; Film negatives Description: One photo of officers' quarters, one of hospital barracks, 42 snapshots of construction of the base housing, plus negatives.

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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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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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Collection of photographs of U.S. Army Philippine Scouts

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