OT Muir journal collection digitized

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

Cheers,
Bill

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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

Cheers,
Bill

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.

Big fan of Brubeck, I'll have to look over his section when I have more
time.

Also spent a lot of time in Yosemite and the Muir trails, sounds like an
interesting read of his journals.
-tom

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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.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"Tim J." wrote in message
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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.
Tim


Quite an interesting story about the assassination of Durham White Stevens;
http://www.koreanamericanheritage.com/kna.htm
-tom

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"Tim J." wrote in message
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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.
Tim


Quite an interesting story about the assassination of Durham White
Stevens; http://www.koreanamericanheritage.com/kna.htm

Yeah, I've read that version, which, of course, could be just slightly
slanted to the Korean POV. That said, it's about the only history on the man
I could find online. I guess I'll have to break down and go to ugh! *the
library*. Oh, well. That'll give me a good reason to visit Boston on one of
these cold winter days. I mean, how expensive could it be to park in Boston,
anyway . . . ;-)
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"Tim J." wrote in message
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I guess I'll have to break down and go to ugh! *the library*.

Uh oh.

Wolfgang
well, so much for the warm and fuzzy mood that has hovered over this place
for so long.

"Tim J." wrote in message
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.. I guess I'll have to break down and go to ugh! *the
library*. Oh, well. That'll give me a good reason to visit Boston on one
of these cold winter days. I mean, how expensive could it be to park in
Boston, anyway . . . ;-)
Tim

Wear your hoddie and you could probably get library valet.
-tom

Quite an interesting story about the assassination of Durham White
Stevens;http://www.koreanamericanheritage.com/kna.htm

Yeah, I've read that version, which, of course, could be just slightly
slanted to the Korean POV. That said, it's about the only history on the man
I could find online. I guess I'll have to break down and go to ugh! *the
library*. Oh, well. That'll give me a good reason to visit Boston on one of
these cold winter days. I mean, how expensive could it be to park in Boston,
anyway . . . ;-)

Go to Google Scholar and type in "Durham White Stevens" (remember the
quotation marks). There's about twelve more references to him there.
Probably would find more with some differing search strings.
Frank Reid

"Tim J." wrote in message
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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.
--
TL,
Tim

Tim,
I saw a PBS "Antiques Roadshow" the other week where a woman had a slew--400
or more-- of "English" langauge Japanese propaganda posters. The roadshow
guy estimated them in the thousands of dollars, even though he had never
seen anything like them before--IIRCC.

Op

"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
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I saw a PBS "Antiques Roadshow" the other week where a woman had a
slew--400 or more-- of "English" langauge Japanese propaganda posters.
The roadshow guy estimated them in the thousands of dollars, even though
he had never seen anything like them before--IIRCC.
Op

I'm not amazed at the popularity of antiques.
In the early 90's my mom wanted a garage sale before they moved.
I guess they needed to lighten their load, sort of clean house. It was our
very first garage sale, so a few days before I advertised in the local
newspaper as 1st garage sale in 50 years. I also listed a few items, many
from the Japanese Interment Camp. Gave the address and the starting time of
9:00am that Saturday morning.

As it turned out, we had people knocking on our door before Saturday wanting
to view items we had. I finally had to put a note on our front door that the
sale will start 9am on Saturday, please do not bother us before then. That
morning, we had people camped out on our lawn at 5am. My Dad got up around
8am and said; "What the Hell's going on out there?" By then it looked like
we were throwing a rock concert. I guess one of the neighbors who didn't
know what was happening, called the police, and a good thing as the police
had to take control of the crowd.

I asked, "Hey Dad, is this what camp life was like?"
He just shook his head and said; "Don't sell any of my fishing gear!"
-tom