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Benjamin Casey Allin letters, 1907-1911.
BANC MSS 81/111 zLOCAL
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Title:

Benjamin Casey Allin letters, 1907-1911

Creator/Contributor:

Allin, Benjamin Casey, 1887-, creator

Abstract:

Mainly to family, describing his travels in Japan in 1907, experiences from 1909, surveying for the U.S. Bureau of Insular Affairs on CebĂș and Samar in the Philippines, and his work compiling an English-Bisayan dictionary. Letter to his mother from Col. Frank McIntyre, Nov. 29, 1910, also included.

Date:

1907 (issued)

Subject:

a-ja--- -- a-ph---
Surveying -- Philippines
Linguistics -- Philippines
Bisaya language -- Dictionaries
Linguistique -- Philippines
Linguistics
Surveying
Travel
Japan -- Description and travel
Philippines -- Description and travel
Japon -- Descriptions et voyages
Philippines -- Descriptions et voyages
Japan
Philippines
United States. -- Bureau of Insular Affairs.
United States. -- Bureau of Insular Affairs
McIntyre, Frank -- 1865-1944
Allin, Benjamin Casey
McIntyre, Frank -- 1865-1944

Note:

Photographs transferred to Pictorial Collections (BANC PIC 1981.085--ALB).

Type:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 portfolio

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 81/111 zLOCAL

Origin:

California