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Photograph albums and travel diary of the Philippines by sailor aboard the USS Pocomoke (AV-9)
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Two photograph albums, one containing a 60-page travel diary, by U.S. Navy crew member W. A. (William Arthur) Isaminger, documenting his experiences in the Philippines during and after World War II. His travel log titled "Navy Life" begins in March 1944 when he joined the navy, then describes his time stationed in the Philippines through February 1946, when he returns home to Seattle, Washington. He was aboard the USS Pocomoke (AV-9), an aircraft carrier that operated primarily in the Pacific theatre during the war and serviced military seaplanes. Along with the diary are handwritten entries on mileage between various locations on his travels from Seattle to the Philippines and back, addresses of acquaintances and family, and a few pieces of ephemera. There are 173 photographs in the two albums, all with handwritten captions. The images include sailors and local residents, village scenes, churches and civic buildings, the statue of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, a sunken Japanese ship in Manila harbor, and a Japanese internment camp and prisoners. There are also several images of partially nude native women and children, two scenes of cockfighting, a man with elephantitus, and a man holding the decapitated head of a Japanese man. The album also features images of activities on board the ship, various seaplanes, and a series of photographs documenting examples of "nose art": female pinups painted on airplane fuselage. Also includes a printed menu in honor of Victory Day, dated August 15, 1945. Locations include Zamboanga, Mindanao, Luzon, Puerto Princesa, Calicoan Island, Samar Island, Taclogan, and Tawitawi Island.
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The generation gap in the Japanese-American community is the subject of this novel. The protagonist is Wil, a 20-year-old woman suffering from depression due to a broken love affair and an abortion. As she wallows in her depression, Wil reflects that her problem, diagnosed by doctors in California as bi-polar disorder, would in the days of her grandparents have been called weakness of character.
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Written for the very audience it portrays, this novel introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney for her novel's overarching plot structure. But instead of concentrating on Maria's romantic adventures, she experiments with unusual treatments of subplots and unconventional characters. The most interesting aspect of her story is the development of Maria's ambition to win fame and fortune as a writer; it is one of the few portraits of a woman with literary ambitions by an early woman writer. Brooke's wry narrative voice foreshadows that of Jane Austen. The second volume in the series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women, The Excursion contributes to our understanding of the development of the novel and offers a lively view of women's position in eighteenth-century English society. The editors' introduction places The Excursion firmly in the tradition of the English novel, provides a fresh biography of Brooke, and brings together the most important eighteenth- and twentieth-century criticism of Brooke's work.
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Yoshiko Doida photograph album
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A photograph album documenting Japanese American Yoshiko Doida's experiences studying abroad in Hiroshima, Japan, 1933 to 1938. A Los Angeles nisei, Doida was likely part of a group of Japanese American students who were selected for scholarship programs to study in Japan in the 1930s. The album's inside cover is gilt stamped "Yoshiko Doida, L.A., Betsuin Y.W.B.A." (Young Women's Buddhist Association). The first photographs begin with her 1933 steamship journey from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and then to Japan, where she is seen posing with Japanese family members. The remainder of the album contains family photographs, studio portraits of Yoshiko in traditional Japanese clothing and hairstyle ("first time in Shimada" she writes), visits to shrines and tourist sites, and many images of Yoshiko at school in Hiroshima. Handwritten captions appear throughout, mostly in English, with some in Japanese. She is seen pictured with her class at Hiroshima Women's College in 1934, and with school friends in town and on outings to the beach, Mount Aso, the "Famous Iwakuni Bridge," and elsewhere. There are a few formal portraits of Yoshiko with her parents, and her parents are also in scenes in Japan. It is likely that some of the sites in Hiroshima that are pictured were later destroyed by the atomic bomb during World War II.
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