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1900 ca.

Photograph

Title: [James Winn]

Full length portrait in U.S. Navy uniform. Inscription on verso reads "James Winn, Cleveland, Ohio"

GLC04546.138

1900 ca.

Rich, H.S., fl. 1900

Photograph

Title: [Dennis M. Doherty]

Full length portrait in U.S. Navy uniform. Inscription on verso reads "Dennis M. Doherty, Boston, Mass."

GLC04546.139

1900 ca.

Lai-Fong, & Co., fl. 1902

Photograph

Title: [Unidentified man]

Quarter length portrait of a man in civiliam clothing.

GLC04546.140

1900 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Sailors on parade]

Photograph shows sailors in parade formation marching down a street. Taken during the Boxer rebellion.

GLC04546.141

1900 May 31

Photograph

Title: [Sailors on parade]

Photograph shows sailors in parade formation marching down a street. Taken during the Boxer rebellion.

GLC04546.142

1899 December 25

Photograph

Title: [Group photo of U.S. Navy sailors]

Place, date, and names are written on mount. Back row (left to right): Frank Pape, Bay City Mich. R.W. McDonald, Buffalo, NY. W.T.K. Brown (no place listed). F.D. Grier, Philadelphia, Pa. E.E. Gold, Chicago, Ill. Joseph Bolingbrook (no place listed). Inscription on versi says "S.W.K.B."

GLC04546.143

1903

Photograph

Title: [The crew of the U.S.S. Manning]

Inscription on verso reads "Officers and crew of the U.S.S. Manning. Alaskan cruise 1903."

GLC04546.144

1903

Photograph

Title: [Group of men standing with heavy industry]

Inscription on verso reads "To W.T.K.B. 6/30/12."

GLC04546.145

1900 ca.

Photograph

Title: Taku Forts

Naval ships navigate through the straits, bombarding the fortifactions on either shore. Commemorates the capture of Taku Forts, June 17 1900. Inscription on verso reads "W.T. Kendall-Brown."

GLC04546.146

1900 ca.

Shanghai Photo Enlarging Co.

Photograph

Title: [Navy sailor standing]

Cabinet card of a sailor in uniform and accompanying sleeve from Shanghai Photo Enlarging Co.

GLC04546.147

circa 1900-1929

Photograph

Title: [Unidentified American vessel]

It is a smaller version of GLC04546.149. Printed from the negative of GLC 04546.150.

GLC04546.148

circa 1900-1929

Photograph

Title: [Unidentified American vessel]

It is a larger version of GLC04546.148. Printed from the negative of GLC 04546.150.

GLC04546.149

circa 1900-1929

Photograph

Title: [Unidentified American vessel]

The negative that GLC04546.148-148 are reprints of.

GLC04546.150

1900 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Landscape of Chinese village]

Inscription on mount verso reads " 100 miles above Hankon. Rice fields in the foreground, and "tea country" back on the hills."

GLC04546.151

1900 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Pagoda, Hankon]

Title from inscription on mount verso.

GLC04546.152

1900 ca.

Photograph

Title: [The Bund, Hankon]

Title from inscription on mount verso. The row of trees on the left appear to be Honeylocusts. The trees on the right may be the same, or perhaps oak.

GLC04546.153

1899

Photograph

Title: [American and Japanese sailors]

Insciption on verso lists the name, "Gary C. Little (Yonkers, NY). Sergt. Astachi (Nagasaki, Japan). W. Kendall Brown (Nagasaki) 1899.

GLC04546.154

1899

Sze-Yuen-Ming, fl. 1899

Photograph

Title: [W. Kendall Brown]

GLC04546.155

20 June 1863

Gifford, Haviland, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed