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For those of you who enjoy such things:

The library of the University of the Pacific has some fantastic
digitized items from their special collections. In particular, I'd
like to point out their large collection of John Muir's journals and
sketches and photographs of Muir. Having looked through a small
portion of what they have made available, there is some fascinating
stuff. I looked through his notes from his stay in the Toulomne
meadows area of Yosemite, page after page of his notes and sketches.

In addition, they have a collection of Dave Brubeck items (oral
histories and photographs) and a very interesting collection of
primary materials relating to the WWII era Japanese-American
internment camps.

So if you are so inclined and have some time to spare, here is the
link.

http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/index.asp

Cool, Bill - thanks.

Excellent, good stuff!
I was just looking over the Japanese-American interment camp
collections. Interesting letters and stories.
My Dad was put in Manzanar (CA) and my Mom was located to the Heart
Mountain (WY) relocation center during the war. They were teenagers
at the time so it was a lot of fun to them, but my grandparents too
it pretty hard.

I think Bill has seen this before, but I never made it public. My wife's
great uncle (Durham White Stevens) was an ambassador to Japan during the
Russo-Japanese War and ended up with some pretty incredible artifacts,
including these propaganda posters. Unfortunately, he was also later made
ambassador to Korea during the time that Japan was attempting to annex
Korea, and was assasinated in San Francisco by some Korean nationists who
felt he was still loyal to the Japanese.

http://css.sbcma.com/timj/Russo-Japanese-Posters/

.. . . and, no, I have no idea about what the messages state on the posters.
I also have no idea what any of this has to do with Bill or Tom's posts, but
this is where the train of thought took me.
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TL,
Tim
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