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Photographs of American occupation of Veracruz, Mexico

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Description: Twenty photographs (5 x 7 inches) documenting the U.S. military occupation of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution. Images show sailors posed in groups, fighting in the streets with rifles, stockpiles of guns, the dock, officials, and dead bodies in Veracruz, 1914. Includes letter explaining provenance of photographs. This folder also contains two unrelated photographs of a Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship heading to Japan and Hong Kong, 1916.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1914.
Call number: photPF 2250-2271
Provenance: Gift of Elisabeth Edson Nordman, 1983.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Photograph of the Pozo #42 oil well and crew in Escolin, Veracruz, Mexico

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Photograph featuring seven unidentified crew members posed in front of the Pozo #42 oil well in Escolin, Veracruz, Mexico. The image shows a tall oil derrick, platform and various equipment. Includes a caption in Spanish imbedded in the print.

photPF 26018

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Photograph album of Veracruz, Mexico

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An album of 39 photographic postcards of scenes of rural and city life in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. The commercially-made images have captions in Spanish etched into the negative, and many have an MF mark for The Mexico Photographic Company. The images include street scenes, outdoor markets, city buildings and bridges, as well as automobile, bus, and train travel. Detailed scenes of rural life include women selling pots or washing clothes at the river, family groups posing in front of their homes, and men in labor activities such as loading lumber onto mules.

photCL 668

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Photograph album of a Japanese American soldier in the U.S. occupation forces in Japan

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A personal photo album compiled and annotated by a Japanese American serviceman who served in the U.S. occupation forces during the post-World War II occupation of Japan. The album begins with his departure from Hawaii to Japan in 1946, including one image of his old school, McKinley High School in Honolulu. In Tokyo, there are many photographs of fellow soldiers, as well as Japanese young men and women; buildings and landmarks; parks; and army buildings. Two images of a large building are described as General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo, and there is one image of him walking out of the building. Besides Tokyo, the soldier is seen in Kamakura and Otake, near Iwakuni, where he may have been stationed later. Of note are a few images of building destruction in Hiroshima, 1947, in the aftermath of the atomic bombing. At the back of the album are many single and group portraits of Japanese residents, possibly family members or acquaintances in Iwakuni and Otake. The album has handwritten captions in English, with occasional captions written in Japanese.

photCL 667

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Japanese occupation of Philippines photograph album

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A photographic regimental history of the Japanese Imperial Army, Watari Philippine Occupation Expeditionary Force, 14th Army unit assigned to the Philippines during World War II. The halftone photographs with captions in Japanese are printed on the album pages, along with a few maps. Written in Japanese inside the front cover: "Suzuki Unit / Matsushima Group / Matsumoto Division." Images include: Military posts throughout the Philippines; broken American and Filipino tanks in Tarlac; destroyed bridges and buildings; Nitsuba house near Antimonan; the Suzuki Division headquarters in San Miguel; Amato jin'ya, or "Confection Barracks/Fort Sweet-Tooth" hung with Japanese flags; group photographs of Japanese Army forces, and others. Also featured is a unit memorial service with a eulogy given by Army Commander Honma Masaharu, who led the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.

photCL 735

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Fisher Electric railway system photographs

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Five large cabinet card photographs of the installation of cable and track for the Fisher Electric railway on First Street in San Jose, California, in 1887. Also one unrelated photograph of the Huntington Lake Dam spillway, Fresno County, 1914.

photPF 990-996

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Photographs related to Western frontier life, Native Americans at Fort Custer, and others

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Three copies of photographs related to the C. X. Larrabee family: Larrabee ranch, Madison County, Wisconsin; Fairhaven Hotel, Washington; and Mary Ann Johnson Larrabee at her home in Omro, Wisconsin. The photograph of the Larrabee ranch is a group portrait of several white men and a woman in front of a house, with one Black woman and one Chinese man in cook's apron included. Other photographs: three albumen photographs of Sioux Indians at Fort Custer, Montana receiving clothes rations with cavalry officers nearby; Sioux men and women with tipis and horses (1884); cowboy riding with a buffalo herd by photographer Sumner W. Matteson (1890s-1900s); photographs of prints of covered wagons and a stagecoach being attacked by Native Americans; camels hitched for transportation. Lastly, one unrelated photograph of the Pedro Andrade adobe, Elizabeth Lake, California, built in 1858, later used as a stage station.

photPF 2186-2196

Photographs of American occupation of Veracruz, Mexico

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