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Bernath Mss 45
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Title: Gladys Pruessman Japan Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): 1929
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 45
Creator:
Pruessman, Gladys
Extent:
.3 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special
Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on
behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright
holder, which also must be obtained.
Gladys Pruessman Japan Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 45. Department of Special Collections,
Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photograph album of a General Electric executive's family in Japan, 1929, with about 300 b/w photos and ephemera such as newspaper
clippings,
telegrams, cards, ships' menus, passenger lists, postcards, pamphlets, invitations, theater tickets and programs, and hotel
menus. Gladys [Mrs. Will]
Pruessman accompanied her parents-in-law to Japan, where her father-in-law, Otto, was a V.P. of International G.E. and Managing
Director of Tokyo
Electric Co. In addition to snapshots of the family, the album includes numerous images (snapshots and commercial) of Yokohama,
Tokyo, Miyanoshita,
Nara, Nikko, street and countyside scenes, Kabuki theatre, as well as trips to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, and a stop in
Honolulu on the way home.