Hsi Chi Men, China: 1925-1926. Unbound. Small archive of correspondence, photos, and ephemera kept by an anti-imperialist American YWCA missionary in China as the country lurched through The May Thirtieth Movement towards the Second Chinese Revolution and eventually full civil war. The archive consists of 11 captioned photos, a...... More
Vladivostock, Russia, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Vallejo, California: Mostly 1904-1905. Various. The vernacular photographs in this archive, most of which were taken by Teresa M. Browne, a high school sophomore who would not graduate from Vallejo High until 1907, document the Russian Cruiser Lena’s stay in San Francisco. Its two letters..... More
Siberia: Circa 1919. Album. Photograph album documenting the U.S. 31st Infantry Regiment's participation in the Allied Intervention in Siberia following World War I and the Russian Revolution. This album contains 127 photographs and 28 mostly real photo postcards (RPPC) created using various photographic and photomechanical processes including silver gelatin..... More
