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Irving Eisner World War II photograph album of India, 1942-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:
This album, carefully created by Irving Eisner, chronicles his time as a corporal in the U.S. Army posted in India from 1942 to 1944. It mostly focuses on his friendships with other military personnel and his vacations while in India.

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2nd Highlanders Light Infantry photograph album of India, 1889-1894 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
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This album contains 68 12 x 8 inch photographs of India and the 2nd Highland Light Infantry (74th Highlanders) in the late 19th century. About one third of the photos are of the regiment and the rest are photos of India (mostly Shimla, Calcutta, Cherat, and Lucknow).

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Victorian military photograph album, circa 1880s (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
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This collection is composed of 45 photographs in a leather bound and engraved album which includes substantial interior design elements, specifically 16 color plates by R. Caton Woodville. The album itself is entitled "Army & Navy Album" and was published in Germany. The subjects of the photographs are all individuals, in formal, studio settings. A majority are in military dress, some in every day outfits. There does not appear to be continuity in the photos and little duplication in the subjects. It's likely the photos were taken in the last several decades of the 1800s, around the time of the printing of the album itself, though no dates are recorded in the album.

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Razmak Brigade photograph album, circa 1936-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
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This album contains just under 50 photographs of young men of the Razmak Brigade during the Waziristan campaign in the North West frontier of India (now Pakistan).

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Lance Bombardier Davies photograph album of India, 1935-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear feet (1 volume and 1 folder)
Abstract:
This collection depicts the experience of a young British soldier in the 8th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, possibly a lance bombardier named Davies, in India from 1935 to 1940.

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Robert and Barbara Barlow travel photograph album of India, 1943-1945 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.1 linear_foot (1 volume)
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Robert and Barbara Barlow (Bob and Babs) traveled to India from 1943 to 1945. It is unclear from the volume if the Barlows were visiting India as a result of service during World War II or if they were traveling for pleasure. The album, titled "Street Scenes in India" provides no hints to who the Barlows were or why they were in India, but contains photographs of the various sights (both architectural and cultural) found during their stay.

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Photograph album, Sri Lanka, 1919-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box (1 album, 5 folders)
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An album containing photographs taken by an unknown person in Sri Lanka working at a British preparatory school during the years 1919 to 1932. There are two letters and some copied poems laid in the volume.

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Mark J. Dresden papers, 1930-1994 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.4 linear feet (3 boxes and 2 oversize folders)
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Mark Jan Dresden (1911-1986) was a Dutch-American Iranist who studied Indology. He taught Persian and Old and Middle Iranian Languages at the University of Pennsylvania from 1949 until his retirement in 1977. Dresden's work on Khotanese, Persian and Iranian languages and texts is widely published. This collection, dating from 1930 to 1994 contains correspondence, ephemera, event files, lectures, financial documents, funding and grants files, project files, research and writing, and personal documents.

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Newell Sill Jenkins papers, 1905-1915, undated (inclusive)

Extent:
0.4 linear_foot (1 box)
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This collection contains some papers of the esteemed American dentist Newell Sill Jenkins (1840-1919) who practiced for most of his career in Dresden, Germany and popularized the use of porcelain tooth enamel. A small booklet with notes on Jenkins' experiments with dental cement is included in the collection, along with a large album presented to him on his seventieth birthday by a cohort of American dentists. There are also a few miscellaneous photographs and pages of notes in this collection, as well as a menu from a dinner held in Jenkins' honor.

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Edward C. Kirk photograph album, circa 1909-1914 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.1 linear_foot (1 volume)
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Edward C. Kirk (1856-1933) was a prominent dentist in Philadelphia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This photograph album, containing seventeen photographs of European medical professionals, may have been assembled following Kirk's trip to Berlin for the International Dental Congress which was held there in 1909.

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Elizabeth T. Miller papers, 1928-1960, undated (inclusive)

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1.35 linear_foot (5 boxes)
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The Elizabeth T. Miller papers, part of the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness, contain documentation of Miller's 1940 travels through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, along with some later correspondence and recollections of the trip. Miller, a commercial artist from Baltimore, Maryland, undertook this journey with her cousin, sculptor and archaeologist Benjamin Turner Kurtz; the acclaimed operatic singer Carolyn Long; and photographer John Henry Coon. The majority of the collection consists of scrapbooks documenting various Mayan ruins and archaeological sites in these countries. Essays published in the Bulletin of the Natural History Society of Maryland (and a few unpublished pieces) written by Miller and Kurtz are also included, as are miscellaneous photos, notes, letters, publications and documents relating to this trip.

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Japanese Army aviator photograph album, circa 1936

Extent:
.2 linear feet (1 volume.)
Abstract:
This album contains photographs taken by an aviator of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, during deployment in Manchuria and northeastern China. The photos are a mixture of posed, formal shots and candid photos of soldiers in military action and in camp within the steppes of Manchura, including local peoples with horses, yurts, and Bactrian camels. There are also shots of friends and family on the home front; the names of photographic studios suggest that the aviator came from somewhere near Ueno.

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Japanese aviator photograph album, 1931-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:
.2 linear feet (i volume)
Abstract:
During the early 20th century, the Imperial Japanese Navy was responsible for training pilots. During World War II, wartime attrition contributed to reductions in selectiveness for pilot training, as well as the length of the training sessions. This scrapbook contains photographs collected by a Japanese fighter pilot during World War II. It catalogs his graduation as a "Hikou-renshuusei" (enlistee/NCO pilot trainee) and his subsequent deployment as a fighter pilot.

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Libyan photograph album, 1937

Extent:
.33 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:
This album contains 98 black and white photographs taken during a trip to Libya in 1937 by an anonymous photographer, who likely was German or Italian. The photographs are of scenes from around Libya, such as the Hotel Albergo Mehari, a camel market, Tripoli Castle, a coastal oasis, a Bedouin village, markets and bazars. Prominent locations shown include, Tripoli, Sabratha, Leptis Magna, Zliten, and Yefren. Additionally, photographs of people, including children, locals, officials, and soldiers can be found throughout.

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Corporal Quock C. Mar World War II photograph album, 1944

Extent:
0.13 linear feet (1 album)
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Corporal Quock C. Mar was a Chinese-American member of the United States Army during World War II. His photograph album documents his military service from his training at the Desert Training Center to his time in the Pacific Theater in 1944.

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Photograph album of a Mexican-American Colorado family, 1921-1963 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.25 linear feet (1 album)
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The photograph album of a Mexican-American Colorado family consists of over 300 images documenting the members of an extended family living in the American West over a fifty-year period, 1921-1963. Identified locations taken from captions include: Eaton, Loveland, Milliken, Denver, and Chihuahua, Mexico. Majority of the photographs are either portraits or groups shots of the family with subjects ranging from infants and toddlers to elders.

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India photograph album, 1860-1900 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.33 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:
This bound album contains 69 black and white photographs of various scenes in India from the later half of the 19th century. It is unknown who compiled this album, but the album was probably created by a British person traveling through India. The bulk of the images are of historic structures, such as tombs, mosques, temples, palaces, forts and ruins, in the vicinity of Agra, Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow, and Uttar Pradesh. None of the images have any descriptive text. Some of the photographs have been identified as the works of Samuel Bourse (1834-1912) or John P. Nichols (circa 1830-1905). The first page contains a print of the arms of the colleges, halls, etc. of Oxford produced by Thomas Shrimpton & Son.

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Chalil Raad photograph album of the Augusta Victoria Complex dedication ceremony, 1910

Extent:
1.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:
Arab photographer Chalil Raad, also known as Khalil Ra'd, photographed the dedication of the Augusta Victoria complex located on the northern side of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem in 1910. This photograph album contains interior and exterior black and white photographs of the Augusta Victoria Church and Hopsice, dignitaries, including Prince Eitel Friedrich and Duchess Sofia Charlotte of Prussia, who attended the dedication ceremony.

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