Pickering, Robert B.

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View of four males, two in undershirts and two shirtless, seated at a table playing cards, possibly in the optical shop. Filing cabinets and supply shelves visible in the background.

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View of a shirtless male posing near the camp's living quarters. Handwritten caption on verso reads: "Taken in Company area. Will send a better picture later."

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View of radio and/or electrical towers; the lighthouse visible in the background.

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View of the camp surrounded by razor wire.

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Views of residences with thatched roofs.

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Typescript drafts for Seeing the White Buffalo; typescript draft for The Visual Guide to Occidente Shaft Tomb Ceramic Figures plus a mock-up of the hardcover edition of Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment; and typescripts and images for Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America, a Gilcrease Museum catalog with several contributors including Robert Pickering.

Typescripts, color prints of digital images, mock-up of a hardbound book.

Content Description Six sets of 333 photographs by unidentified persons, most likely relating to the amphibious invasion of Leyte (Oct-Dec 1944), under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. The first set: 37 images, 10 of which are duplicates, of an invasion of an unidentified island, possibly during the invasion of Leyte in 1944. The second set: 10 images taken in Manilla c. 1945. The third set: 131 images taken in Leyte in 1945. The 4th set: 100 images identified as being Leyte Island c. 1945 and the...

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View of a man in sailor's cap, posing with a Philippine woman, his arm over her shoulder.

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View of a man, wearing a sailor's cap, pictured with his arms wrapped around a young Philippine boy and girl.