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Bernath Mss 489
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Title: Around the Pacific photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: Bernath Mss 489
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.92 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Date: 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
The collection is open for research.
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permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Around the Pacific photograph album, Bernath Mss 489. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2015.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Monterey (Ocean liner).
Australia--Pictorial works
Bali (Indonesia : Province)--Pictorial works
China--Pictorial works
Fiji--Pictorial works
Hawaii--Pictorial works
Japan--Pictorial works
Java (Indonesia)--Pictorial works
Photograph albums
Photographs
Samoa--Pictorial works
Thailand--Pictorial works