COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09). Letters and...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09). Letters and...

Scope and Contents Photographs of people, animals, and landscapes taken during travel and expeditions. Some photographs taken by Fuertes, some by others whose names or initials are often marked on the verso. Inscriptions included on some photographs. Duplicates of photographs exist in different folders throughout. Folder 34 contains a small print of a photograph that appears in the souvenir album in Box 129-130. Prints in folders 1-10 relate to negatives in Box 28, folders 23-29. Prints in folders 35-40 relate...