Search Results
- IDNO:
- 053536
- Title:
- Pearl Buck on "Spotlight"
- Date:
- 1967/04/15
- Description:
- Pearl S. Buck appears as guest on Spotlight, Saturday, April 15th at 2:00 p.m., discussing 'What is America's Role in Asia?', and the formation of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to aid American children in Asia.
- IDNO:
- 053537
- Title:
- Portrait of Pearl S. Buck
- Date:
- ca. 1965
- Description:
- The back of the photo includes a newspaper caption that reads:Pearl S. Buck writes lovingly of "The Good Earth," saying it is the key to human life and world peace.
- IDNO:
- 053538
- Title:
- Pearl Buck Reading to Children
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Pearl Buck is reads to children at Welcome House, the adoption agency for Asian-American children she founded in 1949.
- IDNO:
- 053539
- Title:
- Pearl Buck In Her Study
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Pearl Buck is pictured working in her study at her farm in Perkasie, P. A.
- IDNO:
- 053540
- Title:
- Pearl S. Buck at her Home in Danby, V. T.
- Date:
- undated
- IDNO:
- 053541
- Title:
- U. S. Soldiers in Training at Seneca Rocks, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1943/08/23
- Description:
- A group of soldiers are trained in mountain climbing at Seneca Rocks during WWII.The back of the photo reads:"Some of Uncle Sam's soldiers will be able to vie with the best of the Swiss mountain climbers. A new phase of strenuous ground training for combat units really gives our fighting men something to sweat about. High up in West Virginia's mountains, men of the U.S. Army get a short tough course on how to overcome obstacles no matter how high. When the men complete the short period of training they're tops in their field. Under the best tutors and instructors in the art of scaling walls of sheer rock, they learn all there is to know about cliffs and mountains- except yodeling.PHOTO SHOWS: The going gets tougher and tougher the higher they get. Here a group of soldiers leave the thicket to begin the hard climb over sheer rock to reach the peak of Seneca Rock."
- IDNO:
- 053542
- Title:
- Allegheny Front and New Creek Mountains, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Photograph taken 8 miles west of New Creek, W. Va. on US Route 50. Elevation 2725 feet.
- IDNO:
- 053543
- Title:
- USS West Virginia (ACR-5)
- Date:
- ca. 1915
- IDNO:
- 053544
- Title:
- Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley Boards the U.S.S. West Virginia
- Date:
- ca. 1938
- Description:
- A naval band welcomes Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a super-dreadnought in commission during WWII.
- IDNO:
- 053545
- Title:
- Captain Thomas J. Senn of the U. S. S. West Virginia
- Date:
- 1923
- Description:
- Caption reads, "Captain Thomas J. Senn, U. S. N., who has been placed in command of the new battleship U. S. S. West Virginia, the largest ship of itS kind in the U. S. or any other navy. The ship was placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, December 1."
- IDNO:
- 053546
- Title:
- Pearl S. Buck with Adopted Daughters, Perkasie, P. A.
- Date:
- 1965/03/02
- Description:
- Caption reads, "Pearl Buck, the only woman ever to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes in literature, poses with her four adopted daughters at her home in Perkasie, Pa. They are, from left, Cheico, 16; Johanna, 15; Henriette, 18; and Theresa, 17. Henriette is of German-American origin, the other three of Japanese-American origin. The thing closest to the 73-year-old author's heart is the foundation named after her. Its purpose is to raise $10 million to care for some 300,000 unwanted children fathered by American soldiers."
- IDNO:
- 053547
- Title:
- Joe Parisi, Alias Joe Parrish
- Date:
- ca. 1915
- Description:
- Joe Parisi, a suspected member of the mafia group Blackhand Society, sits with a child on his lap.
