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For more information contact the Archives Center at [email protected] or 202-633-3270 NMAH AC 127 OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION George W. Sims Papers Dates: 1896-1981 Extent: 5 cubic feet, 15 boxes Abstract: George W. Sims (1896-1986) was a tax lawyer, certified public accountant, world traveler, and collector of pre-Columbian objects. He spent his childhood in Fairfax County, Virginia. At age seventeen he began the study of law at the Washington College of Law (now American University), and worked at night as a telephone company traffic manager. He was employed as a clerk in the Panama Canal Zone by the Panama Railroad Company, Commissary Branch, from 1915-1916. Sims left Washington, D. C., because he needed money for school and received a better salary in Latin America. “The pay was 25% higher there [Panama] than in the U.S.A., because the risks of Yellow Fever were great, and work and living conditions less satisfactory than at home.” (Box 8, folder 6) This was the first of his many trips to other countries. He then returned to Washington and graduated from law school. Between 1918-1919 he served as sergeant first class in the aviation section of the Signal Corps. He was stationed for a time at the Vichy (France) Hospital Center, a part of the United States Base Army Hospital, No. 115. After the war Sims did graduate work in accounting at Benjamin Franklin University in the District of Columbia studying at night. During the day he worked in the Navy Department's communications section. In 1919 Sims and a few friends traveled west on one of the early automobile trips across the United States. In July he visited Fresno, California. He returned that same year to Washington, D.C., and “made plans for making the West (and Fresno) his permanent home. In January, 1924, with his wife, Sims returned for the fulfillment of those plans and thus began his long-time love affair with the West and California.” (Scrapbooks: Vol. 38, Box 8, folder 2) After his first wife Katherine died in 1946, Sims spent much time on world cruises. His destinations included North, South, and Central America, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Between 1946 and 1956 he also purchased and restored the 1832 Boronda adobe in Carmel, California. Sims married Emma Marenchin Sims on her birthday November 2, 1971 in Santa Barbara, California. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Sims (1914-- ) worked in the public health field after graduating from Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has remarked, “My world

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NMAH

AC

127

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

George W. Sims Papers

Dates: 1896-1981

Extent: 5 cubic feet, 15 boxes

Abstract:

George W. Sims (1896-1986) was a tax lawyer, certified public accountant, world traveler, and

collector of pre-Columbian objects. He spent his childhood in Fairfax County, Virginia. At age

seventeen he began the study of law at the Washington College of Law (now American

University), and worked at night as a telephone company traffic manager. He was employed as a

clerk in the Panama Canal Zone by the Panama Railroad Company, Commissary Branch, from

1915-1916. Sims left Washington, D. C., because he needed money for school and received a

better salary in Latin America. “The pay was 25% higher there [Panama] than in the U.S.A.,

because the risks of Yellow Fever were great, and work and living conditions less satisfactory

than at home.” (Box 8, folder 6) This was the first of his many trips to other countries. He then

returned to Washington and graduated from law school.

Between 1918-1919 he served as sergeant first class in the aviation section of the Signal Corps.

He was stationed for a time at the Vichy (France) Hospital Center, a part of the United States

Base Army Hospital, No. 115. After the war Sims did graduate work in accounting at Benjamin

Franklin University in the District of Columbia studying at night. During the day he worked in

the Navy Department's communications section.

In 1919 Sims and a few friends traveled west on one of the early automobile trips across the

United States. In July he visited Fresno, California. He returned that same year to Washington,

D.C., and “made plans for making the West (and Fresno) his permanent home. In January, 1924,

with his wife, Sims returned for the fulfillment of those plans and thus began his long-time love

affair with the West and California.” (Scrapbooks: Vol. 38, Box 8, folder 2)

After his first wife Katherine died in 1946, Sims spent much time on world cruises. His

destinations included North, South, and Central America, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa,

Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Between 1946 and 1956 he also purchased and restored the 1832

Boronda adobe in Carmel, California.

Sims married Emma Marenchin Sims on her birthday November 2, 1971 in Santa Barbara,

California. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Sims (1914-- ) worked in the public health field after

graduating from Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has remarked, “My world

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opened up when I married George.”

Sims was a world traveler who collected objects and kept notebooks throughout his life. Native

handicraft and art objects that he collected in the United States, Europe, Africa, and South

America are part of the permanent collections in the Division of Community Life, National

Museum of American History, and the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of

Natural History.

Boronda Adobe

In 1946 Sims purchased the old Boronda adobe in the Carmel Valley of California and over the

next ten years he restored it.

The Boronda adobe was built above the Carmel River in 1832 by José Manuel Boronda on his

7,000 acre Rancho de Los Laureles land grant. José was the son of Don Manuel Boronda, the

first schoolteacher in California. José was married to Juana Cota of Santa Barbara. The sixty-

four foot long house has adobe walls twenty-seven inches thick and hand-hewn redwood beams.

Senor and Senora Boronda lived there with their fifteen children. It was in this house that Senora

Boronda, reputedly made a new cheese much liked by her neighbors and today known as

Monterey Jack cheese. She eventually produced enough to sell to the surrounding community.

The Boronda family sold the ranch and adobe to Nathan W. Spaulding in the late 1860s or early

1870s. He was a mayor of Oakland, California. The next owner was the Pacific Improvement

Company in the early 1880s, the forerunner of Del Monte Properties Company. A small cheese

factory was built to commercialize the product under the name "Monterey Jack." Nevertheless,

the adobe eventually became abandoned as a house. Before Sims purchased it the adobe was

used as a shelter for dairy cows.

Sims plastered the outside walls to protect the soft adobe bricks and whitewashed the interior

walls. The original dirt floor was covered with a floor of two-inch clear, heart redwood, random

planks. It slopes downhill as does the roof of the house. In fact the entire house follows the

topography of the site. Sims left several cables stretching across the crudely raftered ceiling to

support the walls.

Sims reroofed the house with one hundred year old roof tiles from the old Vasquez adobe in

Monterey, California. He also constructed a workshop on the cement foundation of the old

cheese factory and milk barn, added a carport, and built a fence protected patio of the Mexican

type, adjacent to a Spanish garden with gravel paths. The patio walls were made of adobe

created from Carmel Valley soil.

The first floor of the adobe consists of a long living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bath.

An inside staircase was added and leads to the second floor living room, two bedrooms, and a

bath. All of the rooms on the main floor are on a different level. The kitchen at one end of the

house is thought to date to the 1790s when the land belonged to the Carmel Mission.

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Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D.C. [email protected] 202-663-3270 www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives

Scope and Content

These Papers document Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It

consists of forty-one notebooks, Series 1-4; and three boxes, Series 5-9, of personal papers and

ephemera. Series 5-7 are particularly valuable for biographical information. Series 10 includes

6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, and forty-one stereo view cards. The

total volume of the collection is approximately eleven linear feet.

The notebooks cover the years 1896, 1908-1913, 1918, and 1934-1976. They are filled with

Sims's reminiscences, sketches, notes, and commentary on his life and travels. The subjects

include visits to several National Parks, the Boronda adobe, and travel on most continents.

Sims's writing and commentary in these notebooks is documentary in style and has some literary

quality. It is perceptive in detail. There are observations on the people and architecture of

various cities and locations throughout the world.

The 6,000 35mm slides that Sims took between 1944 and 1976 portray the use of the automobile

in travel, national and international touring, and family travel. They are organized by either trip

or location. They document his collecting, research, and restoration interests, and compliment

his written and artistic work. In technique, Sims's photographs are at least a cut above amateur

photography. The slides remain in the order in which the Archives Center received them. In

some cases they are organized, captioned and numbered as a slide program. In other cases, while

they are captioned they are not part of a specific slide program that Sims organized. Usually the

identification in the Detailed Container List represents Sims' own captions, which have been

copied from the slide sleeves.

While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and

places. All the slides are dated and labeled or captioned, either on box inserts or on the slides

themselves. The slides are generally organized by trip. Of particular interest is the

documentation of Sims's restoration of the Boronda adobe. These slides are well captioned and

show the step by step process.

The slides include many early Kodachromes from the 1940s in excellent condition. These

represent the few examples of this type in the Museum. Although these slides are not

extraordinarily rare, they are a very early example of the color process.

There are also black and white prints and a few color prints. Some of these document a motoring

trip along the California coast in the 1930s. All the black-and-white prints portray an individual's

concern to document his travels adequately and in a meaningful way.

The three document boxes of supplemental material includes articles, correspondence (for

example, a letter to Sims from the Henry Ford Museum thanking him for donating an oral history

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of a motoring trip he had taken), business cards, certificates of achievement, hotel ephemera,

news clippings (Series 12), published travel accounts, printed travel brochures, and audio tapes

(Series 11), on which Sims recounts many of his trips over the years. This material is valuable

because it provides biographical information on Sims. It also may be useful for exhibits and

research. Much of the material—the hotel ephemera and the printed travel brochures and

accounts—is similar to ephemera in the Warshaw Collection.

Sims's photographs are similar in content to two other collections in the Archives Center. The

Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photographic Album portrays family automobile trips across the

United States between 1935 and 1940. The Donald Sultner-Welles Collection of travel slides

documents locations throughout the United States and around the world.

Finding Aids

A finding aid for this collection was published by the Archives Center at the National Museum of

American History in 1986, entitled Register of the George W. Sims Papers, 1869-1981 and

written by Robert S. Harding.

Provenance

The George W. Sims Papers were transferred from the National Anthropological Archives

(NAA) to the Archives Center in January, 1985.

Container List

Box Folder

Series 1: Notebooks

1 1 Notes and sketches; early years (including photographs); 1896;

1908-1913; 1918; 1934; 1959 & 1960

2 Notes on Panama, 1915 & 1916; 1961; 1969

3 Yosemite auto trip, 1925; California Trip, 1928

4 Twenty-five U.S. states & three Canadian provinces, 1931

5 Sea journey of Pacific Northwest & Southern Alaska,1933

6 Notes on 1,750 mile automobile trip to Arizona, Nevada, & California,

including postcards on desert scenes, 1934

7 Notes for talks regarding journey to the East and Europe: ten countries &

twenty-one U.S. states, 1937

8

Notes on trip to Alaska, 1933; notes on trip to Yellowstone, 1940;

Glacier, Banff, Jasper & Pacific Northwest, including private letters,

1940

9 Travel notes & sketches, journey to Panama, N.Y. & Hawaii, 1953 &

1954

2 1 Travel notes & sketches, Around the world on the S.S. Eastern Prince

including passport, photos, 1954

2 Stories of travels, shared by friends, 1955; 1963; 1969

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3 Travel notes & sketches, Central & South America, including maps, 1956

4 Travel notes & sketches, South Seas, 1957

2A 1 Travel sketches, California, Nevada, Colorado, 1952-1966, two portfolios

3 1 Sketches, California scenes, 1957-1961

2 Travel notes & sketches, Africa, Europe, Scandinavia, including passport,

maps, 1958

3 Travel notes & sketches, South & Central America, the Caribbean

Islands, 1959

4 Travel notes, Mexico, 1959-1961

5 Travel sketches of scenes in Old Mexico, 1959-1961

6 Notes for audio tapes, Mexico impressions, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964

4 1 Travel notes, Europe via Panama Canal, 1962

2 Travel sketches, Europe, including postcards, maps, 1962

3 Travel notes & sketches, Baja California, Old Mexico, 1963

4-5 Travel notes around the world, 2 vols., 1964

6-7 Travel sketches around the world, 2 vols., 1964

5 1-3 Travel notes & sketches, behind the Iron Curtain, 3 vols., 1965

4-5 Travel notes, borders of U.S.A., 1966

6 Travel sketches, 1967-1973

7 Travel notes & sketches, Arizona, California & Nevada, 1974

6 1 Travel notes & sketches, recollections of an automobile journey across

America in a 1917 Model T Ford (in 1919), 1974 & 1975

Series 2: Political Notes

2 Some sketches of world leaders, 1964 & 1965; 1969-1971; 1974

3 Profiles of U.S.A. Presidents, including newspaper clippings, photos,

1896-1976

4 Comments on the Watergate affair and on the scandals of the Nixon-

Agnew Administration, 1973 & 1974

Series 3: Comments on Vietnam

5 Vietnam: An International Tragedy, Bk.1, (The Eisenhower-Kennedy-

Johnson Years), 1954-1968

6-8 Vietnam: The Continuing International Tragedy of Vietnam (The Nixon

Years: Laos, Cambodia), 1969-1971

9-11 Vietnam: The Continuing International Tragedy, 1972-1975

Series 4: Moon Landings

7 1 First landing on the moon, Apollo 11, 1969

2 Second landing on the moon, Apollo 12, 1969

3 Third attempt for the moon, Apollo 13, 1970

4 Fourth moon journey, Apollo 14, 1971

5 U.S. "Viking" landing on Mars, 1976

Series 5: Scrapbooks (Autobiographical)

8 1 Scrapbook No. 1: 1916-1966

2 Scrapbook No. 2: 1952-1965

3 Scrapbook No. 3: 1918-1970

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4 Scrapbook No. 4: 1931-1959

5 "That Reminds Me:" Personal recollections, 1960

6 "That Reminds Me:" Personal recollections, 1967-1970

7 “That Reminds Me:" Personal recollections, 1969-1981

8 "That Reminds Me": Personal recollections, 1966-1977

Series 6: Correspondence, 1920-1987

9 1 From professional colleagues, 1920; 1930; 1943; 1947-48; 1959

2-3 On Boronda and other adobes, 1949-1958

4 Emma Sims to Alan Ullberg, June 16, 1987

Series 7: Biography

1

Personal certificates:

Board of Education, Washington D.C., 1911

Washington Business High School, 1913

Army of the United States of America, 1918

The Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the

Mystic Shrine, 1920

2 Newsclippings; reminiscences

Series 8: Published Materials

10 1 Articles by Sims published in the Certified Public Accountant; 1927,

1932, 1935

2 Articles by Sims published in the American Accountant; 1929 & 1930

3 Articles by Sims published in the California Certified Public Accountant;

1935, 1936, 1938, 1945

4 Articles by Sims published in the Accountants Digest, vol. 1, no. 1, 1936

5 Professional manuscripts from his friends, 1938

5a Cole, R. W. E., CPA., “Accounting for Social Security Taxes”, 1938

6 The Certified Public Accountant, August, 1932; August, 1936

7 Catalogs: R.C.A. Institute, 1937; N.Y. University, 1940; Benjamin

Franklin University, 1965; Benjamin Franklin University, 1965-1966

8 Sketches U.S., 1952-1966, 1960 & 1961

Series 9: Artifacts

9

Medals:

Business High School, Washington, D.C. 1913, 1918

War Service Memorial, District of Columbia, 1919

American Legion Foreign Pilgrimage, 1937

Series 10: Photographs

(see item listing of slides in Detailed Container List)

Subseries A: 35mm slides (black-and-white and color)

1 California, 1936 - 1946 (including slides from other U. S. locations)

2 Automobile Trip, California to Washington, D.C., 1941

3 Ranches, Death Valley, Miscellaneous Western, 1943-1962

4 Sunset Ranch, California, 1940

Cuba and Florida, 1946

5 Canada and California, 1944-45, 1948

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6 Southwest, U.S., 1947

7 Mexico and the West, 1947, 1951

8 Canada and the West, 1948

9 Boronda Adobe, 1947-60

10 Mexico, Argentina, and New Mexico, March 19-May 15, 1951

11 Hawaii, 1952, 1953

12 East Coast, U. S. (including slides from other U. S. locations and

Panama), 1953

13-14 World Tour, 1954

15-16 South America, 1956

17-18 Pacific Islands, 1957

19 Africa, 1958

20 Peru, Panama, and Caribbean Islands, 1959

21 Europe #1, 1962

22 Europe #2, 1962;

Mexico, 1959-1963

23-24 "Behind the Iron Curtain," 1965

25 "Around the U.S. Borders," 1966

26 "Some of Ending; Eastern Europe:" Genoa & Nice, June, 1965

27 Subseries B: Prints

28 Subseries B: Prints

28 Subseries C: Stereographs

28 Subseries D: Postcards

Series 11: Audiotapes

Box Cassette # Subseries A: Cassette Tapes

28 1 Changing times in America

2 Changing times in America

3 Changing times in America

4 Changing times in America

5 Looking backwards over 4 score years

6 Looking backwards over 4 score years

7 Looking backwards - Presidents of the USA

8 Auto journey through Cal., Nevada, Arizona – 1974

9 Auto journey through Cal., Nevada, Arizona

10 Profiles of USA Presidents

11 Profiles of USA Presidents 1897-1980

12 Impressions of Old Mexico 1959-1960, 1961, 1964

13 Yucatan, Mexico

14 Impressions of Yugoslavia 1965 - Sidit Dubrovnik

15 Yosemite auto trip, 1925

1 Early work years, 1895-1915

2 Boyhood years

3 Roy Chapman Andrews Story

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4 Virginia Memories

5 Interesting persons

6 Interesting persons

7 Recollections of early years. Pioneers & pioneering.

8 Pioneers & Pioneering

9 Pioneers & Pioneering - In memory of old friends

10 Panama Canal Story

11 Auto Journey Across America in 1919 in a 1917 Model T. Ford

12 Auto Journey Across America in 1919 in a 1917 Model T. Ford

13 Continuing & Concluding Auto Journey Across America in 1919 in a

1917 Model T. Ford

14 South Seas, Australia, New Zealand

15 South Seas, Australia, New Zealand

30 1-6 Art museums and galleries

7 Roaming around the world

8 Scandinavia via Polar route

9 Roaming around the world

10 Mexico, 1959; Mexico, southwest U.S., 1960-61; Europe

11 Scotland, England, Belgium, Holland, Germany

12 Switzerland, Austria, Italy

13 Roaming around the world

14 Baja, CA. & Missions of CA.

15 Missions; Middle East

1 Roaming the world

2 Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Macao, Taiwan, Korea

3 Japan; Baja, CA

4-5 Behind the Iron Curtain Journey, 1965

6 Behind the Iron Curtain Journey, 1965; Around the Borders of the U. S.,

1966

7 Mystery Story, Washington, D.C., Winter, 1914-1915

8 Meeting w/Veterans Organization, Figi, 1957

9 Emma Marenchin Sims (EMS) birthday 11/2/79

10 Valentine gift to EMS Feb. 14, 1978

11 Middle East; India

Subseries B: Reel to Reel, 3 ½” Dictating and Transcribing Tapes

31 1 Changing times in America: Vichy, France, Base-115, Armstice, Restore,

Creation. 1918-1919

2 Changing times in America: End of W.W.I to California, Navy Dept.,

Fresno 1919-1924

3 Story of Vietnam, Colomoo River, India Shetts Ceylon's Elder Citizens

1954

4 Adobe Greeting, Vietnam Forecast, Ceyton 1954

5 GWS Comments on President Nixon's Resignation. August 8, 1974

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6 Changing times in America: Various Wayward Innovations & My Work

w/New Advances pioneers - January 1975

7 Changing times in America as seen by GWS over some 4 score years -

Feb. 1975

8 Changing times in America as seen by GWS over some 4 score years -

Feb. 1975

9 Changing times in America as seen by GWS over some 4 score years -

Feb. 1975

10

Changing times in America - Little Boars, N.J. Navy, Dr. Bells, San

Francisco, Fast Coast Communications. Endictment - Army, Cape May -

over seas, Vichy

32 Series 12: News Clippings

Detailed Container List

Box

Series 10: Photographs

Subseries A: 35mm slides (black-and-white and color)

1

California, 1936-46

Sunset Ranch, California, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946

Fresno, California, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937

Fresno Foothills

Victor McLaghlen (movie actor) stock ranch

Roadside scene

Yellowstone National Park, 1936

Glacier National Park

Columbia River [Oregon?], 1936

California Scenes

Falls Church, Virginia

Arlington, Virginia

Sub-subseries: “Automobile Journey to Washington, D.C. and return to California,

1941”

1-Cactus Blossoms

2-Sunset

3-Aspen-Bryce Canyon

4-Bryce Canyon

5-Cottage Bryce Canyon National Park

6-Bryce Canyon

7-Bryce Canyon

8-Bryce Canyon Park

9-White Oolite Stone Mormon Temple, Manti, Utah, Sept. 9, 1941

10-Typical Mormon Town Cottage, Utah, Sept. 1941

11-Rock Candy Mountain, Utah, Sept. 1941

12-The Long View of Western Country, Utah, Sept. 1941

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13-GWS in Utah, Sept. 1941

14-Provo Lake, Utah, Sept. 1941

15-Mormon Church & School, Utah. They go hand in hand here. Sept. 10, 1941

16-Pioneer Cottage in Utah, Sept. 1941

17-Dinasaur National Monument

18-Coal Mine in Colorado, on fire for several years, Sept. 1941

19-Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Sept. 1941

20-Colorado farming Country, Sept. 1941

21-Bad Lands of Northern Colorado, Sept. 1941

22-Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Looking East, Sept. 10, 1941

23-Katherine at Grand Lake, Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, Sept. 11, 1941

24-Bowen Gulch in Colorado's Rocky, Mountains Mount Baker in the Rear, Sept.

11, 1941

25-Top of Trail Ridge Road, looking toward Old Fall River Road, Colorado, Sept. 11,

1941

26-"Never Summer" Range, from Trail Ridge Road Looking SW in Colorado Rockies,

Sept. 11, 1941

27-Near Summit Road Colorado, 12,183 feet, Sept. 11, 1941

28-Kay at Summit in the heart of Colorado, Rocky Mountains, Sept. 11, 1941

29-GWS, Colorado Rocky Mountains, Sept. 1941

30-Colorado Rocky Mountains, Sept. 1941

31-Colorado Rocky Mountains, Sept. 1941

32-Estes Park Colorado, looking westward, Sept. 1941

33-Mountain stream in Rockies of Colorado, Sept. 1941

34-Nebraska Motel, Sept. 1941

35-Prairie farm in Nebraska, Sept. 1941

36-From Missouri Toll Bridge between Nebraska & Iowa

37-Mississippi River, Iowa-Illinois Bridge, Sept. 14, 1941

38-Henry Ford's Dearborn Park Museum Michigan, Oct. 1941

39-"This pictures the Wright brothers' mechanic assistant in making first airplane, Ford's

Dearborn Park, Michigan, Oct. 19, 1941"

40-Henry Ford's Museum at Dearborn Park, Michigan, 1941

41-Henry Ford's Dearborn Park in Michigan, 1941

42-The original Old Village Blacksmith shop Dearborn Park Michigan, 1941

43-Henry Ford's Dearborn Park Memorial Church, Typical of New England, 1941

44-Henry Ford's Dearborn Park, Michigan, 1941

45-Henry Ford's Dearborn Park, Michigan, Stagecoach Tavern, 1941

46-Henry Ford's Dearborn Memorial Park, 1941

47-Henry Ford's Dearborn Memorial Park, 1941

48-Lake Erie at Cleveland, 1941

49-Park in Cleveland, 1941

50-University of Pittsburgh, 1941

51-Crossing the Ohio river near Pittsburgh, 1941

52-On the Pennsylvania Freeway, 1941

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53-View of the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, 1941

54-Pennsylvania countryside, 1941

55-Corn in the shock, 1941

56-Falls Church, 1941

57-The Old Falls Church, 1941

58-Falls Church, 1941

59-Falls Church, 1941

60.1-Brother Lawrence's Summer Country home in Virginia, 1941

60.2-Virginia homemade of old materials gathered from Washington, 1941

61-A part of the Clan, 1941

62-Alice and Philip at their summer home in Virginia, 1941

63-Katherine, 1941

64-Philip, 1941

65-Philip, 1941

66-George & Brother Lawrence "Mint Julips” , 1941

67-Bull Run, 1941

68-Shenandoah Mountain, 1941

69-Helen's Shawl, 1941

70-Bird Column, 1941

71-Ball Room, 1941

72-Frozen Mountain, 1941

73-Along Virginia's Sky Line Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 1941

74-Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, 1941

75-Sky Line Drive, 1941

76-Jefferson-Lee University, 1941

77-General Robert E. Lee's Tomb, 1941

78-College Campus, 1941

79-Jackson Monument, Virginia, Oct. 1941

80-Virginia Military Academy, Oct. 1941

81-Typical Southern Mansion, Oct. 1941

82-Natural Bridge Virginia, Oct. 1941

83-Natural Bridge Virginia, Oct. 1941

84-TA Norris Dam Kentucky, Oct. 1941

85-Cotton pickin’ time in old Kentucky, Oct. 1941

86-Sunset at Nashville, Oct. 1941

87-Sunset at Nashville, Oct. 1941

88-One time home of founder of Piggly-Wiggly grocery stores (Clarence Saunders)

home I knew near Memphis, Oct. 1941

89-Cotton pickin' time in Tennessee, Oct. 1941

90-Louisiana farm, Oct. 1941

91-Louisiana farmland, Oct. 1941

92-"Ole Man River, Oct. 1941

93-Santa Fe, Oct. 1941

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94-Santa Fe, Oct. 1941

95-Governor's Palace, Oct. 1941

96-Santa Fe, Oct. 1941

97-End of Santa Fe Trail, Oct. 1941

98-Indians in Santa Fe, Oct. 1941

99-Santa Fe, Oct. 1941

100-Arizona Scene looking westward, Oct. 1941

101-San Francisco Peaks Arizona, Oct. 1941

102-Indian Home, Oct. 1941

103-Arizona Scene, Oct. 1941

104-Oasis, Oct. 1941

105-Indians, Oct. 1941

106-A view of Arizona's Painted Desert, Oct. 1941

107-Arizona, Oct. 1941

108-Sunset Crater, Oct. 1941

113-Incomparable Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

115-Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

116-Incomparable Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

117-Grand Canyon Arizona, Oct. 1941

119-Hopi Indian House, Oct. 1941

120-GWS at Beautiful Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

122-Kay at Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

123-Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

127-Kay at Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

128-Sublimely beautiful Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

129-Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

130-Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

131-Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

133-Colorado River, Oct. 1941

134-Grand Canyon, Oct. 1941

135-California at last near Needles, Oct. 1941

136-Lava Mountain in Eastern California, Oct. 1941

Sub-subseries: Ranches, Death Valley, Miscellaneous Western, 1943-1962

3 Alfalfa, new ready to cut 1943

Cutting alfalfa

Mowing 1943

Raked alfalfa 1943

Montezuma's Castle, Arizona 1957

Hot springs, CA 1960

Fresno 1946

Sacramento, CA 1946

Mt. Shasta, CA 1962

Ureka, Ca. 1962

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San Juan, CA 1962

Fresno 1946

Death Valley 1949

Fresno 1946

Alucaden Cottage, built in 1854

Flagstaff, Arizona

Indian reservation, Navajo, Arizona 1957

Monument Valley, Arizona 1957

Capital Reef National Monument, Utah 1957

San Juan River, Utah, 1957

Country side scene, houses

A lady sitting in front of a house

Farm [house?]

Country scene, trees & houses, land

Country scene, (same spot)

Sims in land, newly seeded?

Country scene, [plant?] field

Same area, field labor

A woman sitting by fence land

[Rose?]

Field country scene, houses

Woman in front of a house

G.W.S. standing by a landmark, Death Valley

On the road, old-type machines

People waiting in a mountain area

Same spot on the road people standing line

Walking to the mountains

In an open mountain site mining area?

Death Valley Centennial Celebration?

Street Scene? from different angles

Sims's company?

111 Unlabeled Slides

4 Sub-subseries: Sunset Ranch #1, 1940

17-Home beautiful the hills in springtime, Sunset Ranch #1 near Auberry, CA

18-Here is where we panned for our gold Sunset Ranch #1 near Auberry, CA

19-Sunset Ranch #1 near Auberry, CA

20-Kay at Sunset Ranch #1 Auberry, CA

21-Sunset Ranch #1 near Auberry, CA

22-There was ever beauty around our old "Chick Sale", Sunset Ranch #1

23-Sunset Ranch #1

24-Sunset Ranch #1

25-Strolling with guests near our Sunset Ranch #1

26-Snow on the mountains Sunset Ranch #1

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27-Sunset Ranch #1

Sub-subseries: Cuba, October 1946

1-Boarding my plane for Havana, from Miami, Fla. airport

1-Air view over Florida swamps

1-Air view Havana, Cuba

1-Air view Havana, Cuba

1-Havana, Cuba residence

1-Air view over Cuba from airplane, arriving from Miami

1a-View of Havana, Cuba from my airplane, as we came in from Miami, Fla.

1b-Air view approaching Havana, Cuba

1e-Approaching Havana, Cuba, by airplane from Miami

2-A priest walking in downtown Havana, Cuba

3-Garden of Havana, Cuba home

4-Havana gambling casino

5-Fountain statuary Havana, Cuba, Gambling Casino

5a-Street Scene Havana, Cuba

6-The President's Palace

7-View of Cuba's capitol building Havana

8-El Prado Havana, Cuba

9-Downtown Havana, Cuba, Christopher Columbus was supposed to have........?

10-Harbor entrance Havana, Cuba

11-View along side of the Prado Havana's beautiful park-like walkway

11a-El Prado Havana, Cuba

12-View from my corridor, National Hotel, Havana, Cuba

13-A view of the National Hotel and my room Havana, Cuba

14-View of Havana, Cuba, from garden of Hotel National

15-View of National Hotel and Havana across the bay

16-View of Havana, across the bay

17-Havana, Cuba

18-Cuban children near Havana

19-Havana, Cuba, harbor and Old Fort

20-Raising the flag at old fortress, Moro Castle, Havana, Cuba Harbor

21-Drilling at OA part & lighthouse entrance of Havana, Cuba Harbor

22-GWS at Old Fortress, Havana, Cuba Harbor

23-Entrance, National Hotel Havana, Cuba

24-Hotel National Havana, Cuba

25-View from terrace Hotel National, Havana, Cuba

26-The President's Palace

Sub-subseries: Cuba and Florida, November 1946

Morre Castle, Havana Harbor, near where Maine was sunk in 1898

Morre Castle, waters where U.S.S. Maine was sunk

Gathering Coconuts, Havana, Cuba

Old cannon, Havana, Cuba

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Young Cubans

Moro Castle, Havana Harbor

Havana, Cuba scene

View from national Hotel Havana, Cuba

View of Havana, Cuba from the bay

Over looking Havana City from old prison

Up to Morre Castle, Havana, Cuba Harbor

Airport, Havana, Cuba

Cloud scenes taken from airplane (no date) [5 slides]

Pan American airways plane Havana from Miami

Flying over Florida's swamps

Miami airport

Miami airport, Florida

My hotel in Miami, Florida

Biscayne Bay, Florida

Miami Beach & Biscayne Bay, Florida

Fishing boats at Miami

Sea Gulls over Biscayne Bay

An International line, middle of Rio Grande River, Juarez-El Paso

In Carlsbad Cavern Entrance

Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico entrance lower right

Texas Scene, near El Paso

El Paso, Texas at night

El Paso, Texas

El Paso, Texas

Show Boat at level on Mississippi River, at St. Louis, Mo.

Looking across border to Old Mexico at El Paso, Texas

View of fountain in St. Louis, Missouri

Bridge crossing Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri

1111 Jefferson Memorial at twilight

1060 DAR building from 17th Street

1112 Washington Monument at night

1321 Mount Vernon, VA Central part 1743 ends completed 1786

1050 Capitol at night from East Capitol Street

View of Miami, Florida from Biscayne Bay

Residence, Coral Gables, Florida home

Coral Gables, Florida

Night lights Miami, Florida [5 slides]

War Memorial Miami

Miami Florida's Railroad Station

Miami Florida

Miami Florida Hotels

Flagler street Miami, Florida. Spot where assassin shot Chicago's Mayor Cermak in

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attempt on life of Roosevelt.

West & Mexico, Customs & Immigration, Border station, Juarez-El Paso, Rio Grande

Miami, Florida Scene

Railroad Station, Miami, Florida

(L) Statter/(R) Carlton Hotels, Avenue of the Presidents (16th street Washington, D.C.)

Looking across Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida

Hotel Miami Beach, Florida

Hotel Miami Beach, Florida

Entrance to Jack Coamer's (Hollywood) Miami Beach Home, Florida

Miami Florida's Racetrack, Hotel Flamingos

Entrance to Race Track Miami

Rio Grande River at Old El Paso - Juarez Border

Mayor's Home, Juarez, Mexico

Juarez, Old Mexico

Market, Juarez, Mexico

5 Sub-subseries: Canada and California, 1944-1945, 1948

Yosemite National Park CA

Tioga Pass

Mono Lake, CA

Reno, Carson City, Nevada

Bishops, CA

Nevada

Red Rock Canyon, CA

Walker Pass, CA

Bow Valley, Banff, Canada

Cascade Mt. & Vermillions Lakes

Lake Louise

Peace Park, Canada

Bon River Valley, Canada

Columbia Ice Field Canada

Attafasha River, Canada

Jasper, Canada

Headwater of Columbia River, Canada

State line in Canada

World Fair in S.F., CA

fishing fleet S.F., CA

Pismo Beach, CA

Santa Barbara, CA

Pacific Coast, CA

Yucca Plant

Carmel Valley (Beach), CA

Pacific Grove Cottage

Carmel Valley, CA

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Pacific Grove, CA

Highschool CA

Fresno, CA

Lake Arrowhead (1948), CA

Pig Bear, CA (1948)

Victor Valley, CA (1948)

San Ysidro, CA (1948)

Mexico (1948)

Colorado & CA (1948)

San Diego, CA (1948)

San Juan, CA (1948)

Santa Barbara, CA (1948)

San Simieon

California Coast (1948)

California Highway (1948)

Tahoe (Spring 1945)

Wotter Loor (Fall 1945)

Sunset Ranch (Fall 1944)

38 Unlabeled Slides

6 Sub-subseries: Southwest U.S., 1947

California Scene

Figure of an artist

Mexico

Arizona scene

Mexico

Superstition Mt. Ariz.

Pressalt Airport Ariz.

Phoenix, Ariz.

Junction-Ashfork, Ariz.

Grand Canyon, Ariz.

Hopi House, Ariz.

Grand Canyon, Ariz.

Little Colorado River

Hopi Indians Ariz.

Arizona Scene

Zion Park Utah

Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Bingham Copper Mine

Dumping slog

Utah Scene

Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Nevada

Arizona

Indian Horse sale

Death Valley

Joshua tree

Owen’s Lake and Dierras

Mono Lake

Bishop, CA

Tahoe

Nevada

California

Bullfrog, Nevada

California

Palm Springs

Coast Scene highway

California

Highway

Mission

7 Sub-subseries: Mexico and the West, 1947, 1951

Harvey, Oregon (1947)

Indian reservation, Oregon (1947)

Klamath Lake, Oregon (1947)

Crater Lake, Oregon (1947)

Rogue River, Oregon (1947)

River Scene, Oregon (1947)

California coast (1947)

Oregon caves (1947)

Northern California (1947)

Calif. rice fields (1947)

Pacific grove, CA (1947)

Del Monte, CA (1947)

Del Monte, CA (1947)

Carmel Valley (1947)

del Ris, CA (1947)

del Ris, CA (1947)

Mouth of Carmel River into Pacific (1947)

Delpha Point Lobos, Calif. (1947)

Monterey Bay (1947)

Pacific Grove, CA (1947)

Carmel - San Simeon (1947)

Big Sur State Park, CA (1947)

Gallatin's (1947)

Big Sur Highway (1947)

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South of Big Sur (Highway) (1947)

Carmel Mission (1947)

Big Sur Highway (1947)

Kings River, CA (National Park) (1947)

Kings River Nat'l Park, CA 1947

Yosemite scene (Valley) CA 1947

Oak Flat Road, CA 1947

Hetch-Hetch Dam & Falls 1947

Bridge 1947

Delpha at 862 Pine 1948

Delpha, 1948

Fresno, CA 1948

Lake Tahoe, Nevada 1948

Delpha, Pacific Grove 1948

862 Pine 1948

614 W. Hedger, Fresno 1948

610 - 614 W Hedges, Fresno, CA 1948

614 W Hedges, Fresno, CA 1948

Roeding Park, Fresno, CA 1948

Cathedral, Durango, Mexico 1951

Copper Smelter, Superior, Ariz. 1951

610 - 614 W Hedges Fresno, Mexico 1951

Family Portrait, 1947 [9 slides]

Family Portrait, 1948

Scenic picture

Cemetery

Scenic

Indian reservation

Scenic

Figures

Animal

Scenic

8 Sub-subseries: Canada and the West, 1948

Idaho

Grand Teton

Wyoming scene

Grand Teton

Yellowstone Nat'l Park, Wyoming

Old & New in Transportation

Overlooking Mammoth, Gardiner, Montana

Yellowstone

Old Faithful

Hebgen Lake & Gallatin Nat'l Forest

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Copper Mine smelters, Montana

Glacier Nat'l Park

Flathead Lake, Polson, Montana

Glacier Nat'l Forest

Great Northern Railway

Glacier Nat'l Park

McDonald River Valley

Reynolds Mt.

Glacier Nat'l Park

Logan's Pass

Grinnell Glaciers

Sherburne Lake

Chief Mountain

Waterton, Canada

Near Calgary, Canada

Canadian Rockies

Three Sisters, Canada

Canadian Rockies

Banff Nat'l Park

Canadian Rockies

Banff, Canada

Canadian Garden scene

Banff, Canada

Canada Mountain, Alberta

Canadian Rockies

Banff Canada

Canadian Rockies, Banff

Bow River, Launch

Banff, Canada

Lake Louise

Alberta, Canada

Canadian Indian Chief and Tepees

Sinclair Canyon

Windermere Valley, Canada

Idaho - Canadian Border

Mt. Rainier, Washington

Mt. Hood, Oregon

Eastern Oregon

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Tahoe, CA

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Tahoe, CA

9 Sub-subseries: Boronda Adobe, 1947-1960

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Slides in this box were arranged by Sims. They portray the structural restoration of

Sims's countryside residence, the so-called "old adobe," in Boronda, Carmel Valley,

California. Some of the slides are unnumbered, and are scattered between the

succession of numbers.

Boronda, Carmel Valley, CA 1947

Boronda, Carmel Valley, CA 1948 [6 slides]

Boronda, Carmel Valley, CA 1949 [4 slides]

Three persons in residence, 1948

Carmel Valley, CA 1949 [6 slides]

Mexicana 1949

Residence with three figures

Woman in the field, mountain scene 1949

Open field (with title) 1949

Monteley, CA 1949

Soledad Mission Ruins (1791) 1949

Monteley Bay, CA 1949

Carmel, CA 1951

Panama 1955

Boronda adobe, Carmel, CA 1955

Boronda adobe, Carmel, CA 1957

Boronda adobe, Carmel, CA 1954

Boronda adobe, Carmel, CA 1951 [3 slides]

Old autos 1953

Boronda old adobe, Carmel, CA 1952

Old adobe, Carmel Valley, CA 1953 [3 slides]

Old adobe, Carmel Valley, CA 1955

San Francisco, CA 1955

Carmel de Tierra, CA 1955

Carmel Valley, CA 1955

Old adobe ? Carmel, CA 1955

Plum Springs, CA 1955

Riverside, CA 1955

Old adobe, Carmel Valley, CA 1957

Old adobe, Carmel Valley, CA 1958

Old adobe, Carmel Valley, CA 1960 [3 slides]

Ranch ? horses, trucks & labor

"Old adobe" ? Carmel, CA

woman in "Old adobe" ?

on seashore ? two women

old adobe, a car

old adobe, three figures

old adobe [4 slides]

seashore ? Sims with a car

seashore Sims's wife ?

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old adobe ? house with a small garden

yard with flowers

home with garden

old adobe and a woman

Sims ? playing on the open field

in a home yard, (two figures)

ranch ? horses

old adobe? Carmel, CA

swimming in a lake, the Simses?

three persons in a mountain scene

two persons in a residence area, (car)

airport, plane and people

house with a yard

"old adobe" 1953

swimming in a lake

a view of countryside

garden around a house, two figures

"old adobe," Carmel Valley, CA 1953

"old adobe," Carmel Valley, CA [4 slides]

"old adobe," Carmel Valley, CA 1957

garden scene

view toward the mountains

10 Sub-subseries: Mexico, Argentina, and New Mexico, Marcy 19-May15, 1951

1-Emerald Pool Lodge - Phoenix, Arizona, March 19

3-New highway under construction, east of Superior, Arizona, March 19

4-George at Coolidge Dam, March 21

5-Lordsburg, New Mexico, March 22

6-Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - street scene at 16th and De Septembre, March 23

8-Street scene - Chihuahua, Mexico, March 24

9-Indian woman trying to hide from camera, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 24

10-Governor's Palace most important city state of Chihuahua, March 24

9-Cathedral of famed colonial architecture, built in 1725-1759, Chihuahua, Mexico,

March 24

11-Overlooking Chihuahua population 48,676, alt. 3700' guide Carlos Solarga, March

25

12-George William Sims leaving casa of Senora Pancho Villa, nu Luz Corral, March 25

13-Sunrise, leaving Chihuahua, 9:00 a.m., March 26

14-Street scene, Durango - 2th Noviembre, March 27

16-Amado Nueva, Mexico—Rubble and church ruins, March 27

17-Pueblo sombrereste, Zacaticas Mexico—once a thriving mining town, March 27

18-Tropic of Cancer, Sombereste & Fresnillo, Zacaticas, Mexico, March 27

19-Approaching dust storm Fresnillo, Zacaticas Mexico, March 27

20-Plaza & Cathedral - Fresnillo, Mexico, March 27

21-Going to market, sugar cane or cornhusks on the backs of burros, Zacaticas, Mexico,

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March 27

22-Fireworks, hotel? Cortes Mexico City, March 27

23-Guadaloupe Convent & Museum, March 27

24-Monastery, Zacaticas, Mexico, March 27

25-Senor Jesus F. Salmon, El Capiteur - Mexican mountains Contradore Inventor &

Marquita, March 27

26-Indian, Posado Los Indios south of Zacaticas, March 28

27-Francoso, Mexican village near Zacaticas, March 28

28-Ajo Caliente, Mexico, Herder and his cows on highway , March 28

29-Rincon de Rimas village Mexico, March 28

30-Cathedral and Plaza, Agua calientes Jacaranda in bloom, March 28

31-Plowing with wooden stick and oxen, March 28

32-Roof top living Mexico, Guadalajara, March 28

33-Boy carrying grass, March 28

34-Open market at Guadalajara, March 29

35-Cathedral and Plaza, March 29

36-Centuries old rock fences and modern day plowing with oxen and wooden plows

near Jiquilpan beyond Lake Chapala, Mexico, March 29

38-Overlooking Mexican - Indian Pueblo from Mexican highway no. 3 (15), March 29

39-Overlooking Lake Patzcuaro, alt. 7180' where web-like "butterfly nets" are used by

native fishermen, Mexico, March 29

41-Cathedral - Morelia (1640-1744), Mexico, March 30

42-Note: Man's Poncho. Donkey drawn cart equipped with old automobile tires.

Morelia, Mexico, March 30

43-Mirador de las Mil, Cumbres Alt. 9,179" (view of 1000' peak) , March 30

44-Another common village scene Mexico, March 30

45-Indian beast of burden hauling lumber on his back, March

46-Mexican scene, March

47-Mexican scene, March

48-Volcanic Popocatipete and Istaccihuate, Mexico City, Oct.?

49-Famous Tiffany Glass curtain in Valacio de Bella Artis which depicts the volcanoes

Popocatipete and Istaccihuate, Mexico City, March

50-Churubusco Monastery Gardens (1678) Spanish Colonial architecture, April 4

51-Courtyard patio Monastery of Churubusco in the historical village of coy-can, base of

the Spanish Conquerors 1522, Mexico, June 2

52-Churubusco Monastery, April

55-Flower vendor in Xochomilco Gardens, Mexico 14 miles southeast of Mexico City

home of Aztec nobles, April

56-Lake Xochomilco, Islands and pleasure craft, April

57-Lake ministrels Xochomilco Gardens, Mexico, April

58-Orchid corsages for 784 American and flowers baskets for less, April

59-Fresh and beautiful roses, lilies, violets and pansies for sale. Xochomilco Gardens,

Mexico, April

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60-Note 3 year old child in this, requires excellent balance, Xochomilco Gardens,

Mexico, April

61-Photographs being taken, Xochomilco Gardens, Mexico, April

62-Poling craft on waterways of Xochomilco Gardens Mexico, April

63-Fresh citrus fruits in handwoven baskets Xochomilco Gardens, Mexico, April

64-Wells Fargo well advertised, Xochomilco Gardens, Mexico, April

65-Some of the beautiful handicrafted materials displayed for sale, Xochomilco

Gardens, Mexico, April

66-Scene at landing after trip, Xochomilco Gardens, Mexico (Floating) , April

69-George Sims with guide Luis, Hotel Mandel Gardens Cuernavaca, Mexico, April

70-Constable enters on horseback to official box to request permission to start the

corrido de toros, April 1

71-Matadors, banderillos, picadores followed by ring attendants and drag mules, Mexico

City, April 1

72-Bouderillos, picadores, drag mules and attendants, Mexico City, April 1

73-Drag Mules and ring attendants, Mexico City, April 1

74-Picador, Mexico City, April 1

75-Picador, Mexico City, April 1

76-Banderillo, Mexico City, April 1

77-Mexico City, April 1

78-Mexico City, April 1

79-Mexico City, April 1

80-Matador, Mexico City, April 1

81-Matador in action, Mexico City, April 1

82-Matador, Mexico City, April 1

83-The fatal strike, Mexico City, April 1

84-Success, Mexico City, April 1

85-Away with the old. Bring on the new, Mexico City, April 1

86-Looking up to the Hotel Victoria Taxco, Mexico, April 4

87-Looking through bedroom window to Cathedral - Taxco, Mexico, April 4

88-Overlooking Taxco from Victoria Hotel, April 5

89-Street scene, Taxco, April 4

90-George W. Sims, Taxco—Street Scene, April 5

92-Open Market near Plaza entrance. Taxco, Mexico, April 5

93-Narrow Streets, high walls. Taxco, Mexico, April 4

94-Taxco, Mexico, April 5

95-Street scene, Taxco, Mexico, below Hotel Victoria, April 4

96-Taxco—guidelines, April 5

97-Mt. Vopocatipatl, April 4

98-Taxco, Mexico, April 14

99-Pig in doorway Taxco, Mexico, April 5

100-Hacienda Vista Humosa near Lake Tequequitengo showing the pool and old

aqueduct, April 5

101-Midday siesta village between Taxco and Auernavaco, Mexico, April 5

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102-Hacienda Vista Hermoso, Mexico. Hernando Cortez, conqueror 16

th century

Hacienda, April 5

104-Street Market, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April 5

106-George enjoying breakfast "in" patio of de Cortes Inn. Note fireworks over

fountain, April 7

107-Beginning of Fiesta Fireworks display, de Cortes Inn, April 6

108-Quite a display, Mexico City, n.d.

109-110-Fiesta fireworks [2 slides], n.d.

112-Fireworks, Spring Fiesta, Hotel de Cortes Patio, Mexico, April

113-Pyramids of the Toltecs at least 1000 years old at San Juan Teotihuscan (Pyramid of

the Sun) Mexico, April 8

114-Temple of Quetzalcoatl (Wind God of Toltecs) Pyramids 29 miles N.E. of Mexico

City, April 8

115-Zimipan street scene, old town dating from 1522, April 8

116-Highway scene water carriers—both bladder and stone jar, April 8

117-Better than average house. Plastered with thatch roof. Coretta type found first at

Ismagumcheles, April 8

118-Indians—notice naked child with hat and banana belly, Mexico, April 8

119-Indian women walking along highway, Mexico, April 9

121-George S. on wharf—Tampico, Mexican Gulf, April 9

122-Sombero Mountain between Tampico and Ciudad Victoria Mexico highway,

April 10

123-Mexico. One of many schools seen along this route thatched roofs common. Native

girl drawing water at open well near El Monte, April 10

124-Oxen drawn caretta near Victoria, Mexico, April 10

125-Mountain near Villagran. Very beautiful but unable to get pictures due to high fog,

April 10

127-Salinas Hidalgo mining town horse drawn surrey, reminder of evening ride in

Monterey, April 11

128-12:00 noon, Neuva Laredo, Mexico soon cross the line, April 11

129-American Customs Office, Neuva Laredo, April 11

130-Mexican Customs Office and Health Dept., Laredo, Texas, April 11

131-Oldest Church in USA at Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15

133-Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15

134-George resting on fountain in courtyard of Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15

135-Caretta in courtyard of museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15

136-Kiva, North of Santa Fe, April 15

137-In the heart of the Rockies, between Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, April 15

138-Church at Rancho, Taos-New Mexico, "Most painted" church by artists, April 15

139-Indian Pueblo, Taos & Mission Church, April 15

140-Looking across Plaza to north Communal House Pueblo Taos, New Mexico. Oldest

apartment house in U.S.A., April 15

141-South Communal House, Indian Crossing creek is wrapped in cotton sheet blanket,

April 15

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142-Kit Carson home, Taos, New Mexico, May

143-Arizona Scene

144-Arizona’s Petrified trees, May

146-Grand Canyon, Hopi Indians, May

147-Grand Canyon Arizona, Hopi Indian dances, May

148-Topoc, Arizona, looking toward California's mountains, May 15

149-Tehachepi Pass, California, Santa Fe Train, Chicago San Francisco, May

Bringing some color from old Mexico, May

11 Sub-subseries: Hawaii, 1952, 1953

Onboard a ship, Pacific, 1952

Honolulu

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii 1952

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii

A rare bird in Hawaiian Islands

Royal Hawaiian Hotel 1952

Kauai Island 1952

Honolulu 1952

Molokai Island 1952

Kauai Island 1952

Kauai Island Hawaii 1952

Maui Island

Kauai Island 1952

Molokai Island

Maui

Naniloa Hotel, (garden view) Hilo

Hilo

Plants in Hawaii

Steaming bluffs, Hawaii

Canoes, Kona

Right view, crater eruption 1950

Volcano scenes 1950

Hawaii sightseeing 1952

Kona, Hawaii 1952

City of Refuge 1952

Kona 1952

Kona, Hawaii 1952

Kona, Hawaii 1952

Kona, Hawaii 1952

Waikiki beach, Hawaii 1952

Cahu Hawaii 1952

Bananas

Flowers (Spider Lily)

Honolulu

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The Pali

Smithfield bananas

Island view

Hawaii (swimming pool) 1953

Honolulu 1954

Dance show on the beach, Waikiki, Hawaii

Overlooking land from a plane?

With natives three persons on street?

A house with trees

In a garden

A girl wearing native clothes native houses

Building with trees

Stone, monument?

Seashore

A man on seashore, with a car

Plants in Hawaii?

Native women, (dance troupe?)

Natives in costume, (dance troupe?)

Native scene beach in Hawaiian setting

Ship on the sea

Natives' live performance on the beach

On board a ship, about to depart

A boat on the sea with people

Looking toward land, onboard a shi

On board a ship, three adults & two children

Port of Los Angeles? building of port?

People about to disenbark the ship

At gas station, a man with a car

On the seashore?

A church

A view from the port

On the beach

Building and flowers, on the beach

Trees and small native houses

Native woman on a boat

On board a boat, on the river

Tree? leaves? flowers?

Buddhist cemetery?

Views of native land, trees, stream, etc.

Native women and child

Woman in a native village

Native houses

Seashore

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12 Sub-subseries: East Coast U.S., 1953 (including other U.S. locations and Panama)

Power plant, Panama 1953

Virginia

Panama City, Panama

On board a ship, Atlantic

Sunset off New Jersey Coast

Ellis Island, NY

On board a ship, looking NY Harbor

NY scenes, Hyde Park

Hudson River, NY

West Point, NY

Washington, D.C.

Falls Church, VA

Shenandoah, VA

Staunton, VA

Williamsburg, VA

Charlottesville, VA

Yorktown, VA

Jamestown Island, VA

Williamsburg, VA

James River Plantation

White Sulphur Spring, VA

Lexington, Kentucky

Appomattox, VA

Panama

Cimarron Crossing Park, Kansas

Manitou Springs, Colorado

Gold mine town, Colorado

Colorado Rockies

Nevada mining town, "Virginia City"

California mining town

Columbia California

Bear Valley

Returning to the place where the journey started

13 Sub-subseries: World Tour, 1954 (“World #1”)

Shipboard scenes, crossing Pacific Ocean, San Francisco to Philippine Islands

Manila, Bataan Peninsula, Philippines (taken onboard a ship)

Philippines scene

Mt. Fuji, Japan

Manila, Philippines

Saigon, Vietnam; Indo-China

Palace Grounds, Bangkok, Thailand

Street scene, Bangkok

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River Scene, Singola? Thailand

Java, Surabaja, Bogor, Indonesia

14 World Tour, 1954 (“World #2”)

Java, Djakarta, Bogor, Equator area Indonesia

Singapore; Johove, George Town & Kuala Lumpur

Penang, Malaya

Colombo, Ceylon

Cochin & other places, India

Bombay, India

Cochin & other places, India

On the Arabian Sea

On the Red Sea

Suez, Cairo, Pyramid, Sphinx, Egypt

Egypt

Gibraltar, African Coast, Mediterranean Sea, Spain

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Boston, U.S.A.

New York

Washington, D.C. & Virginia

Charleston, SC

Panama, 1954

15 Sub-subseries: South America, 1956 (“Americas #1”)

Harbor scene, Port of Long Beach?

On the sea, onboard a ship

Talara, Peru

Onboard ship, on the sea

Architecture

Gas station

School court?

Unclear things

People (in South America?)

Historical sites

Street scene

Monument (South America)

Looking over a town from sea

Hotel? South America

Swimming pool

People resting onboard a ship

Building against scenic background

Big public building?

Beach resort

Native people and houses

Native town scene

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Lima, Peru

Street scene, downtown?

Architectures? downtown

On the sea, on board ship South American Scene

Fishing off coast, Peru

People, cart with an ass

Mining area? (native S. America)

Garden?

Boat, Cumber

Ship on the sea

Native S. Americans and houses

Yard or open field

Building

Coastal area, (against mountains)

Warehouse? railroad crossing

Onboard a ship, sea and mountains

Native workers onboard

Coastal area, town and landscape

Native town, street scene

Overlooking a town, sea & mountains

Sea

Florist shop and natives

Market place on the street, S. Amer.

Overlooking seashore area and buildings

Sculpture in a garden

Cathedral

Gate of a building, flowers

Seashore, rocks

Open-air cafeteria, beach area?

Factory yard with railroad

Factory working facilities, by sea

Harbor?

Street scene, downtown?

Buildings with fountain spring

Building with sculpture

Sculpture in front of a window

Cart with a horse

Figures, (not clear)

Newsstand on street

Cows

Sea shore landscape, harbor

Conception, child, 1956

Sea

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Seaman onboard a ship

Onboard a ship

Architectures

Sculpture in an urban setting

Street scene, vendor cart

Cathedral, in a tropical area

Houses in town

Street scene

Sea, sunrise

Construction site

Harbor

In front of a warehouse?

Boat on the sea?

In a South American city or harbor

Street, houses, slums? in South America

Garden in a hospital?

Woman sitting in a porch

Under a bridge

Overlooking land from sea

Steamboat on the sea?

Overlooking a harbor (city)

On the rear of a ship

On board a ship, three women

Overlooking a city, mountainous area unnumbered Valparaiso, Chile

Looking at land from sea

Figures at a gate

Scenes on the sea

On the harbor, ships and sea

City on a river?

Overlooking a city, architectures

Street scene, between highrise buildings

Street scene, trees and buildings

Cathedral

On the river, boats and buildings

On the boat, a woman or men

Countryside, river and houses, boat

A team of show horses on the street

Historical architecture

Cafeteria on the street

Public buildings

Wagon in the garden?

Inside a cathedral

Public buildings and squares

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Architectures, churches?

Buildings, street scenes

Garden? yard?

Building with sculptures

Urban architecture

Govn. Palace, Montevideo, Uruguay unnumbered

Street scene, vendors

Street scene, downtown area?

Overlooking the city, buildings

On an airplane

Street scene, monument

At gate of a public building

Wagon on the street, Panama?

Street scene, gypsies?

In a garden? shoe polisher

On the beach

Sculptures?

Antique wagon?

A man with a gown on the street

Cafeteria?

Overlooking the city

Urban sculptures, garden?

Bridge and highway in mountains

Overlooking city and fields

At gate of a public building, guard

Looking forward to a city highrise building

On a airplane

Looking to mountains (vague)

Buildings and mountains

On the beach?

Overlooking the beach

Overlooking seashore

16 Sub-subseries: South America, 1956 (“Americas” #2)

Animals 1

Cape Horn

Vendors 1

Latin American? street market 3

Women carrying bundles on heads 7

man on horse in street of town 1

Painted cart & building 1

Landscape (volcano?) 2

Flowers 2

Horsemen on road 1

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Interior? 1

Waterscape 1

Milk vendor with cart 1

Figures in Park? 1

Architecture 25

Street Scene 6

Airports 3

Figures in landscape 3

Landscape 6

Landscape with town & city 2

Gardens 1

Mountains 1

Bridge 1

Cart & ox 1

Bus 1

Architecture & Sculpture 2

Waterscope w/town 1

Portrait 1

Christ of the Andes? 3

Architecture & landscape 1

Gardens with parrot 2

Woman hanging wash 1

Workers on road 1

People 7

Park 1

Miscellaneous 2

17 Pacific Islands, 1957 (“South Seas” #1)

San Francisco harbor 1957

Long Beach harbor

On board a ship, at sea

Tahiti, South Pacific

Tahiti, South Pacific

Stars in South Pacific sky

At sea, onboard a ship

Tonga Islands, South Pacific

Tonga Islands, South Pacific

Tongan Beauty, a girl

Tonga Islands, South Pacific

Tonga Islands, South Pacific

Tonga Island, South Pacific

Tongan soldier, South Pacific

180 year-old turtle, South Pacific

Farewell to Tonga, South Pacific

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Sailing day from Tonga South Pacific

Pago Pago American Samoa South Sea S. Pacific

Apia, British Samoa, South Pacific

George Sims swimming onboard a ship

Sunset at sea, South Pacific

Apia, British Samoa, South Sea

Suva, Fiji Islands, South Pacific

Fiji native dancer South Pacific

Island, New Caledonia, South Pacific

island, New Caledonia, South Pacific

Townsville, North Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Girls from New Guinea

Songmen, Australian Aborigines

Aboriginal girl

Stony Creek falls, Barron George

New Guinea Aboriginals

Papuan in ceremonial dress, New Guinea

18 Sub-subseries: Pacific Islands, 1957 (“South Seas #2”)

Show fish

Coral formations

Brisbane Park, Australia

Brisbane Park, Australia

Canberra, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Christ Church, New Zealand

Christ Church, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Birdseye view of New Zealand from air

Rotorua (Maori Villages), New Zealand

Rotorua (Maori Villages), New Zealand

Rotorua (Maori Villages), New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

On the air overlooking New Zealand Island

Over the Pacific on the air

Kona, Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii fishing

Kona, Hawaii

The end

Christ Church, New Zealand

Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California 1971

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Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose, CA 1971

Ghost Trees, Carmel 1969

Miami, Florida 1966

New Orleans, Louisiana 1966

Nassau, Bahamas 1966

Nassau, Bahamas 1966

Woman standing by a stony monument

19 Sub-subseries: Africa, 1958

# of slides Location

BOX

19 Africa, 1958 (Slides in this box are all unnumbered)

4 Copenhagen, Denmark

3 Helsinki, Finland

2 Stockholm, Sweden

10 Sweden scene

11 Oslo, Norway

1 Icebergs, Labrador

1 Airport

11 Medieval paintings (series)

12 Roma by night (series)

12 Vatican scene (series)

6 Durban, South Africa

27 South Africa, country scene with indigenous

peoples

3 Kenya, wild fields

3 Nairobi, Kenya

1 Victoria Lake, Uganda

1 Entebbe, Uganda

3 Khartoum, Sudan

9 Blue Nile, Sudan

8 Athens, Greece

2 Rome, Italy

3 Vatican

6 Venice, Italy

3 Denmark

1 Dakar (night scene)

16 Accra, Ghana

1 Johannesburg, South Africa

2 Victoria Falls

18 Tribal peoples, South Africa

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35 South African wild farm scene

30 Spain, Toledo, Seville, Etc.

16 Mallorca

3 Toledo, Spain (San Fernando)

1 Lisbon, Portugal

30 Granada, Spain

20 Spain Scenes, Mediterranean, Malaga

13 Portugal

22 Barcelona, Spain

2 Santa Fe, Spain

3 Spain, countryside scenes

10 Granada, Spain

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BOX Peru, Panama, and Carribbean Islands, 1959

("Americas, Caribbean Islands")

20 (Slides in this box are all unnumbered)

11 Lima, Peru

83 Peru, country scene, historical sites,

Andes Mts.

11 Panama; Balboa

4 Curacao

1 Trinidad

5 Barbados

9 Martinique

1 Antigua

2 St. Kitts

2 Virgin Island, USA

9 Puerto Rico

11 Dominican Republic

21 Haiti

21 Jamaica

2 Cuba

24 Yucatan, Mexico

217 TOTAL

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21 Europe #1, 1962

Labeled

1 California, harbor scene, outward bound 1

1 On board a ship at sea 2

2 Panama Canal 3-4

3 Curacao, Dutch West Indies 5-7

6 Port of Spain, Trinidad 8-13

10 On the seas onboard S.S. "Canberra" 14-23

3 Southhampton, England sightseeing 24-26

12 London, England, sightseeing 27-38

9 London, England, sightseeing 1-9

5 London, England, Sightseeing 11-15

2 Windsor, England sightseeing 16-17

2 Oxford, England sightseeing 18-19

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1 Roadside scene sightseeing 21

3 Stratford-on-Avon, England 22-24

1 Chester, England 25

3 North England Scene 26-28

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# of slides Location or Feature Code (Kodak #)

4 Scotland, Edinburgh 29-32

3 Highland country, Scotland 33-35

1 Piccadily Circus, London unnumbered

1 Edinburgh, Scotland unnumbered

2 Lake Lomand, Scotland unnumbered

2 Edinburgh, Scotland 1-2

2 Northeast England 3-4

1 Windsor, England 5-

1 East central England 6

2 Cambridge, England 7-8

2 Dover, England 9-10

8 Brussels, Belgium 11-18

1 Holland views 19

4 Amsterdam, Holland 20-23

1 Zuider Zee, Holland 24

2 Street Scene, Holland 25-26

3 Amsterdam, Holland 27-29

1 Frontier point, Holland-Germany 30-

2 Germany scene, on the way of travelling 31-32

1 Bonn, Germany 33

5 Scene along Rhine River 34-38

4 Heidelberg, Germany 1-4

2 Baden-Baden, Germany 5-6

1 Freiburg, Germany 7

3 Basel, Switzerland 8-10

2 Swiss Countryside scene 11-12

2 Lake Lucerne, Switzerland 13-14

4 Swiss Alps & Lakes 15-18

2 Lucerne, Switzerland 19-20

2 Lake Alpine, Switzerland 21-24

1 Lake Zurich 22

2 Switzerland 23, 25

1 Mountain scene, Swiss border with Austria 26

2 Vaduz, Liechtenstein 27-28

1 Castle scene Liechtenstein 29

1 Arlberg Pass, Liechtenstein 30

2 Innstruck, Austria 31-32

2 Country, Austria 33-34

1 Berchtesgarten, Austria 35

1 Salzburg, Austria 36

14 Vienna, Austria 1-14

2 Austria 15-16

2 Yugoslavia countryside 17, 26

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7 Ljubljana, Yogoslavia 18-24

1 Yugoslavia, street scene 25

1 Adriatic scene 28

1 Yugoslavia-Italy border 27

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# of slides Location or Feature Code (Kodak #)

1 Trieste Cathedral, Italy 29

1 Venice, Italy 30

1 American Cemetery, WWII, Italy unnumbered

12 Venice, Italy 1-12

14 Republic of San Marina 1-12, 1-2

2 Italy 3-4

3 Assisi, Italy 5-7

12 Rome, Italy (ready-made) 1-12

1 Italy scene vineyard? 8

1 Tyhrumean Sea, Italy 9

3 Terracino, Italy 10-12

1 Naples, Italy 13

3 Pompeii Italy 14-16

1 Sorrento, Italy 17

4 Isle of Capri, Italy 18-21

11 Pompeii, Italy 1B-8B,10B-12B

12 Napoli, Italy 1A-12A

3 Orvieto, Italy 23-25

1 Casscico, Italy 22

1 Siena, Italy 26

2 Florence, Italy 28-29

24 Florence, Italy 1-24

6 Pisa, Italy 1-6

297 TOTAL

BOX

22 Europe #2, 1962; Mexico, 1959-63

3 Tepotzlan, Mexico 1959 unnumbered

3 Monte Alban, New Oaxaca, Mexico unnumbered

7 Mitla Ruins, Mexico 1959 unnumbered

1 Oaxaca, Mexico unnumbered

3 Stanford Univ. Palo Alto, CA 1953 unnumbered

19 La Paz Baja, CA 1963 unnumbered

3 Los Alamos, Mexico 1960 unnumbered

4 Taquesquiapan, Mexico 1960 unnumbered

1 Vista Hermosa, Mexico 1960 unnumbered

1 Cuernavaca, Mexico 1960 unnumbered

2 Tucson, Arizona 1957 unnumbered

2 Tucumcari, Arizona 1957 unnumbered

1 Vera Cruz, Gulf of Mexico 1966 unnumbered

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1 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 1956 unnumbered

6 Valle de Bravo, Mexico 1960 unnumbered

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1 Old Pueblo, Arizona 1957 unnumbered

3 Capital Reef Mountains, Utah 1957 unnumbered

1 Nevada-Utah border 1957 unnumbered

1 Santa Ines, Solvany, Ca. unnumbered

1 Angels Camp, Ca. 1955 unnumbered

1 An adult & a boy in front of a house unnumbered

1 Monte Carlo, Monaco 1962 unnumbered

1 Fortin, Mexico 1961 unnumbered

2 River Loine, France 1962 unnumbered

10 Paris, France 1962 unnumbered

2 Viareggio, Italy 1962 unnumbered

2 Chiavari, Italy 1962 unnumbered

4 Genoa, Italy 1962 unnumbered

2 Monte Carlo, Monaco 1962 unnumbered

3 Avignon, France 1962 unnumbered

1 Floral, France 1962 unnumbered

1 Lulon, France 1962 unnumbered

1 Landmark of France & Italy 1962 unnumbered

2 Chateaux of Ioches France 1962 unnumbered

1 Chateaux de Chambord, France 1962 unnumbered

3 Fontain leau, Paris, France 1962 unnumbered

2 New York City 1962 unnumbered

1 Orleans, France 1962 unnumbered

1 Chateaux de Chenouce aux, France unnumbered

1 Chateaux Calan(?), France unnumbered

1 Claremont-Ferand?, France unnumbered

1 Nice, France unnumbered

4 Buena Park, Ca. unnumbered

112 TOTAL

BOX

23 Eastern Europe, 1965 ("Behind the Iron Curtain, Vol. I")

2 Kishiwen, Moldavia, USSR 1-2

1 Odessa, Ukraine, USSR 3

3 Vienna, Austria 6,8,9

1 Gyor, Hungary 11

16 Budapest, Hungary 12-14, 16

18-20,22-30

4 Hungarian border area with Yugoslavia 31-34

11 Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1-2, 4-12

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12 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 13-24

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2 Brotherhood & Unity Highway 25-26

1 Balkans scene Yugoslavia 27

10 Sofia, Bulgaria 28-37

6 Plovdiv, Bulgaria 1-6

1 Bulgarian country scene 7

1 Zelenikovo Bulgaria 8

1 Shipka Pass Bulgaria 9

4 Tirnovo Bulgaria 10-13

4 Varna Bulgaria 14-17

12 Bucharest, Romania 18-29

2 Lake Snagov Romania 30-31

1 Bucharest Romania 32

2 Transylvania Alps, Romania 33-34

3 Bacau, Romania 35-37

2 Country scene, Romanian-Soviet border 38 a.b.

1 Brussels, Belgium 3

7 Odessa, Ukraine, USSR 4-10

2 Yalta, Crimea, USSR 11-12

6 Kiev, Ukraine, USSR 13 a b-17

6 Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR 18-23

1 Kursk, Russia, SFSR? 24

2 Orel, Russia, SFSR 25-26

1 Farm house near Moscow 27

3 "Yasnaya Polyana," Tolstoy's estate 28-30

2 Russian farm house 31-32

1 Street scene in Kharkov USSR unnumbered

13 Moscow, USSR 1-13

3 Iagorsk, USSR 14-16

8 Leningrad, USSR 18-25

4 Petrodronets, USSR 26-29

1 Red Square, Moscow 30

2 Smolensk, Russia 31-32

1 Minsk, Byelo Russia, USSR 33

1 Vistula River, Poland unnumbered

2 Minsk, Byelorussia USSR unnumbered

1 Bnest Byelorussia, USSR unnumbered

8 Warsaw, Poland unnumbered

6 Cracow, Poland unnumbered

15 Praque, Czak unnumbered

3 Karlovy-Vary, Czeckslovakia unnumbered

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BOX

24 Eastern Europe, 1965 ("Behind the Iron Curtain, Volume II")

1 Romania - Country scene

2-5 - Visting Bucharest Village

6 - Lake Snagov - Once for wealthy

7 - Now for the "People"

8 - Women at work

9 - Lake Snagov

10 - Lake Snagov 14th century Monastery

11 - Bucharest Street scene

12 - Transyvania Alps near Sinaia

13 - Queen Marie & King Michael

14 - Summer Palaces at Sinaia

15-17 - Bacau Street Scene

18 - Country side scene near Soviet Border

19 Romanian Postman stops for picture

20 Moldavia (SSR) - Kishinev

21 Moldavia, Capital City Hotel

22 Ukraine (SSR) Odessa

23-24 Ukraine Opera House Odessa

25 Odessa Photos of Party

26 Odessa Open house

27 Odessa on the Black Sea

28 Odessa a major port

29 Odessa unknown soldier tomb, Children's Day School

30 Crimea - Yalta - Livadia Palace

31 Crimea - Yalta - Black Sea from Palace

32 Kiev - Capital City Ukosine (SSR)

33 Ineper River

31 View of city from my hotel window

32-34 St. Sophia Cathedral

35 In flowers

36 Ukraine - Kiev statue

37 Russia Farmhouse on Steppez (or Plainia)

38 Typical farmhouse scene Russia

39 Tolstoy's Birthplace at Polyana, Russia

40 Yasnaya Polyana, Russia

40 Tolstoy's Grave

41 Estate of Tolstoy's Family

42 Farmhouse near Moscow

43 One of very few service stations

44 Orel - Public in Soviet Square

45 Kursk Cathedral Norr Museum

46 Kharkov Scene from my hotel window

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47 Kharkov People's Apartments

48 Kharkov State Palace of Marriage

49 Kharkov Children's Park, 5000 acres

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50 Kharkov Children's railroad 5000 acres

51 Kharkov Public Square

52 Kharkov Downtown view Old Hotel Cathedral

53 Moscow State University

54 Moscow overlooking City of Moscow

55 Moscow Kremlin & Henin Tomb

56 Moscow St Basils Cathedral

57 Moscow Red Square

58 Moscow Red Square Stalin's Tomb

59 Moscow Red Square 8 visitors Historical Museum

60 Moscow Red Square Oriental Visitor

61 Moscow Gorky Ave. Moscow

62-63 Moscow Exhibition Cultural & Economic Achievant

64 Moscow Exhibition Cultural First Satellite

65 Moscow Exhibition Cultural fountains

66 Moscow Exhibition Cultural Folk Dancing

67 Lagorsk 14th Century Monastery

68 Zagorsk Orthodox Church

69 Typical Farmhouse

70 Leningrad

71 (St. Petersburg) Cathedral

72 St. Petersburg on Neva River

73 Public Square Revolution

74 Czar's Palace now

75 St. Isaac's Cathedral

76 Petrovorets Czars Summer Palace

77 on Gulf of Fuilana near Leningrad

78 Gulf of Finland

79 Petrovorets

80 Petrovorets Chapel

81 Smolensk Hotel

82 Smolensk 16th Century Catheral Kremlin

83 Byelorussia (SSR) Scene

84 Women at work

85 Brest Ular Minsic

86 Poland roadside scene

87 Warsaw on Vistula River

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BOX

25 "Around the US Borders, Vol. 1, 1966"

2 Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho, 1966 1.4

1 Maryhill mansion, Wash. State 2

1 Umtilla Oregon 3

1 Moyie Lake, B.C, Canada 5

1 Elk River & Canadian Rockies 6

2 Crowsnett Pass. Canadian Rockies 7-8

1 Lethbridge, Canada 9

1 Regina Saskatchewan 12

2 mounted police at Banff, Alberta, Canada unnumbered

1 Symbols of authority Canada unnumbered

2 mounted police and Peace Tower at Ottawa unnumbered

1 present uniform of R.M.C.P. 14

1 Regina Saskatichewan, Canada 15

3 Makitoba, Canada 16-18

2 Ontario, Canada 19-20

1 Nipigon River Ontario, Canada 1-

3 Ontario, Canada 2-4

1 Niagara Falls, NY 5

9 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada 6-14

1 Horticultural College Ontario, Canada 15

1 Niagara Falls, Canada 16

4 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 17-20

5 Montreal, Canada 1-5

1 St. Lawrence River, Canada 7

1 Montmorency Falls 8

1 Village road, Quebec, Canada 9

1 Quebec city, Canada 6

1 De Deupre Quebec, Canada 10

6 Quebec, Canada 11-16

4 Gaspe' Peninsula, Canada 17-20

5 Gaspe' Peninsula, Canada 1-5

4 Fall Foliage, New Brunswick, Canada 6-9

1 St. Leonard, N.B. Canada 10

4 Boston, Mass. 11-14

6 Bermuda 15-20

4 Bermuda Scene 1-4

4 Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas 5,6,8,9

3 Bahamas Islands 12-14

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2 Bahamas Islands unnumbered

5 Jerusalem Cyclorama unnumbered

100 Total

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# of slides Location or Feature Code

Yosemite, Pacific Grove, Monterey & Carmel, California 1971

1 Yosemite National Park 2

3 Pacific Grove, 3-5

7 Carmel Valley, 6-12

1 Carmel Valley, 15

1 Colton Hall, Terey 16

4 Carmel Valley, 17-20

1 Seascape, Point Joe unnumbered

1 Cliff Home Carmel unnumbered

1 Pescadero Point unnumbered

1 Typical Shop, Carmel unnumbered

BOX

26 "Some of Ending"; Eastern Europe ("Iron Curtain Journey");

Genoa & Nice, June, 1965

slide # Location

1 Gardens of the Victory Square

2 Columbo Monument

3 Panorama & Harbor

4 Little Harbour & Emiliani College

5 St. Lorenzo Cathedral

6 Triogoli of St. Bridget

7 C. Columbo House

8 The Lanterna

9 Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.

10 Mrs. McKee Fisk

11 Sabena Airplane, Brussels, Belgium

12 Park & Palace Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

13 Guild Houses & Flower Markets, Brussels

14 The Cemetery

15 Lake & Diana Temple

16 G. Sims in Patio

17-27 House interior (over exposed), Dec. 1965

28 Hungarian mountains

29 Exterior Stadium; Budapest Hungary

30 Stadium

31 Russian Soldiers, Roosevelt Sq.

32 Kalebegdam Park, Yugoslavia

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33 Yugolavian children at Belgrade airport

34 Piazza De Ferrais

35 Fallen in War Monument

36 Woman with painting, Sept., '65

37 Sawyer's demonstration slide

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Series 10: PHOTOGRAPHS (cont'd)

Subseries B: Prints

BOX

27

Folder Photographs

1 Boronda Adobe prints & news clippings

2 color tinted prints, West Coast

3 Photo of Mr. & Mrs. Mainert J. Peterson

4 Photo of Rev. Mainert J. Peterson 1957

5 Photo album dedicated by Wright Ritezel.

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28

1 Photographs - Sims & Stoughton, CPA office, Fulton Street,

Fresno, CA

2 Photographs - Mainert & Virginia Peterson & friends - Hawaii,

West Coast

3 Photo album of Sims, W.W. I photos

4 photo album & scrapbook of Sims

Subseries C: Stereographs

22 Beautiful Venice

29 Island San Georgio, off Venice

32 Ecee Homo Arch, Jerusalem Palestine

38 Birthplace of Gen. Grant

45 Russian Cossalk

47 Street scene, Venice, Italy

50 Street scene Cairo, Egypt

55 Cathedral fr. Grand Canal, Rotterdam

60 Coke ovens

65 Mexico City Workers

69 Ratheon, Rome

72 Holiday in Havana, Cuba

79 Buddhist Temple, Pekin, China

84 Jungfrau of Swiss Alps

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88 David's Judgement Seat, Jerusalem

91 Victory Monument, Leipsic

92 Emperor Inspecting Regiment

99 A public well, Pekin, China

106 Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris

110 Imperial fountain before Peterhof Palace

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114 One of Russia's Powerful Cruisers

115 PeasantThrong Market Place at Warsaw

119 Entrance to Asakusa Temple at Tokyo, Japan

124 Randolph St. Bridge East ward, Chicago

125 Japanese Maidens Having Tea Party

126 Lake Biwa Canal, Japan

127 Golden Pavillion on the Lake of Kinkakuji, Japan

130 Front of Yakuski Temple at Nikko, Japan

133-134 Fort of St Jean & Cathedral, Marseilles, France, Grand Opera

House, Paris, France

134 Sphinx and Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt

141 The Great Mormon Catheral Salt Lake City, Utah

144 Palace in Moscow occupied by Napoleon

146 The Old Trestle, Golden Gate Canyon

147 Busy scene in Market Place, St. Petersburg

147-148 The Mosque of Omar

Rio di St. Andrea, Venice, Italy

159-160 Chinese Junks in Harbor, Hong Kong, China

Lighthouse station at Hong Kong, China

171-172 Japanese Boys Biarary Matsuri Festival Shiviral Yokohama,

Japan

Shrinie carried in Metsuri Fest

187-188 Native Hawaiian Woman catching Peehear Bamboo as it grows,

Manila

Subseries D: Post Cards

1 1910-13 Colonial Beach, Va.

1917- New Hamshire

1953- Panama