Around the Pacific photograph album, circa 1936

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Summary

Title:
Around the Pacific photograph album
Dates:
circa 1936
Abstract:
371 (circa 350) black and white photos plus several loose photos, some loose ephemera, one map etc. Date (1936) stamped on cover. "Around the Pacific" stamped on cove
Extent:
0.92 linear feet (1 oversize box)
Language:
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Around the Pacific photograph album, Bernath Mss 489. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

371 (circa 350) black and white photos plus several loose photos, some loose ephemera, one map etc. Date (1936) stamped on cover. "Around the Pacific" stamped on cover.

[This]Pacific voyage appears to have begun in San Francisco, with a stop in Los Angeles before making its way across the ocean via Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, then on to Pago Pago, the Fiji Islands, Australia, Bali, Java, Thailand, China and Japan. The travelers are two older American couples, the photographer is most likely one of the women. They may have been traveling aboard the S. S. Monterey, pictured at anchor in one of the photos. Images include women in grass skirts performing a dance on Kona Beach, Hawaii (4), Pago Pago Harbor, Samoa (4), native dancers and houses, Samoa (7), Fiji village life (11), wildlife and city life in Australia (11), scenes on Thursday Island, including pearl fishing boats (5), Bali (including 20 scenes of the Djanger Dance), Balinese method of threshing rice (5), Sourabaya, and other locations in Java, including images of a three-wheel taxi, roadside entertainers, etc. (35), Singapore (4), including a picture of a car with a tiger face mounted on the front grill, with a caption “Tiger Brand Medicine made this possible,” [an apparent reference to so-called anti-opium pills, which themselves contained heroin], Bangkok, Siam (including Wat Arun, Wat Po, Wat Phra Keo, Angkor Wat) (70), China (a total of 87 images), including Macao, 6 scenes from a Chinese funeral, Canton, Peiping (Beijing) , 4 images of a Chinese wedding procession, 11 photos of the Great Wall of China, and the final stop, Japan: Kobe, Nara, Kyoto, Nikko (57 images), including markets, shrines, cherry blossoms, and the Heian Garden. Most of the Japanese people appear in traditional dress, though there is a scattering of western fashion; one photo shows a pair of Japanese soldiers.

Acquisition information:
Library purchase, 2015.
Physical location:
Del Norte Stacks
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Edward C. Fields, 2015.
Date Prepared:
2015 March 11
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2015-04-23T16:24-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Around the Pacific photograph album, Bernath Mss 489. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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