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China, People's Militia members in Yan'an teach Harrison Forman how to make mines
No full textCaption from Report from Red China: The author watching the manufacture of the home-made firecracker powder which the Min Ping use for their mines. Caption from negative envelope: Militiamen of Red China make their own weapons and their own gun powder. Here in the land where gun powder for fire crackers was invented centuries ago, gun powder for use in land mines is ground on a stone flour mill.China: China at War. 21. Fighting forces of Red China.Forman, H. (1946). Report from Red China. London: Robert Hale Limited.; Forman, H. (1946). Xi xing man ying. Shanghai: Shanghai shu bao gong si.GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 1
Harrison Forman Diary China, January-May 1942
No full textThis diary written by Harrison Forman begins on January 10, 1942, just one month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in the United States, meanwhile, the Second Sino-Japanese War continues in China. On horseback, Forman rides through the deserted streets of Changsha (capital of Hunan province, southeastern China) and reports civilians returning home as the Japanese retreat to the north. Forman travels to Hongshan where he witnessed the cremated remains of Japanese soldiers. On January 11, 1942, Forman interviews Jsueh Yueh (Xue Yue), the Chinese Nationalist General and Commander-in-Chief responsible for the victories over the Japanese at the Second and Third Battles for Changsha. General Xue Yue explained the tactics which contributed to success. Forman then travels the Hsiang River by boat, then by train to Hengyang (south central Hunan province, 110 miles south of Changsha, seat of the Nationalist Party military government) and Kwielin (now Guilin) in the northeastern Zhuang Autonomous region of Guangxi southern China. Forman describes supply trucks arriving from Linchow (now Lanzhou) delivering goods for soldiers and civilians. According to Forman, merchants had begun to stockpile goods after the fall of I-ch’ang (now Yichang, an area heavily bombed and taken by the Japanese Army in 1940) and in fear of fighting in Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)). Forman mentions Kunming in southwestern China, where the U.S. Major General Claire L. Chennault, founder of the volunteer air squadron the Flying Tigers, were guarding against the Japanese forces. Chinese Nationalist Government officials are mentioned, such as T.S. Tsiang (Tsiang Tingfu, historian and diplomat), Wang Wen-hao (Weng Wen-ho, geologist, educator, and Minister of Economy, 1938-1947), and Wu Ting-chang (Wu Dingchang, Minister of Economic Affairs, 1935). Other notable figures mentioned are, Feng Yachsiang (Feng Yuxiang, Christian General and Chiang Kai-shek supporter), Quo Tai-chi (Dr. Quo Tai-chi, first Chinese representative to Britain, 1932-1940; named foreign minister by Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, 1941), Kenji Doihara (“Lawrence of Manchuria,” general of Imperial Japanese Army who invaded Manchuria), Emily “Mickey” Hahn (journalist and author), and Charles Boxer (local head of the British Army Intelligence). Forman follows Wendell L. Willkie, U.S. Republican presidential candidate (opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt), on his trip to China and mentions a list of notable figures, such as Chu Shao-liang (Zhu Shaoliang, general in the National Revolution Army of the Republic of China), Hu Tsung-nan (Hu Zongnan, trusted general of Chiang Kai-shek), Captain Chiang Wei-kuo, Generals Shi Liang-yu, Li Chen-shen, Chang Tso-lin (Zhang Zuolin, warlord of Manchuria, defeated by the Nationalist Kuomintang in 1928), and Hsu Liang-yo. Forman ends his diary at the close of Willkie’s visit, writing about his press colleagues, Francis Lee and Peter Kiang. He tells of the story “Phanton Legions” in the London Daily Express, written by Tommy Chao.The diaries are part of the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974 housed at the Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. UWM Libraries received the dairies on a loan from the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries and digitized them to accompany the digital collection of Forman's photographs. The diaries were digitized to provide research materials for the Forman’s negatives scanned as part of the NEH grant project "Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images.
China, Harrison Forman filming people departing airplane
No full textDouglas D.C. 2, operated by China National Aviation Corporation. Author with cine-camera.China: Nac, Douglas, EurasiaChinese writing indicates the plane is used to deliver mail. Caption from similar image published in Popular Flying.Forman, H. (October, 1936). China spreads her wings II. Popular Flying, p. 344-347Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 2
Shanghai (China), display of books, some of which may be unauthorized reprints
No full text25. Many American books are pirated by the Chinese who photograph the pages and print cheap editions for sale on Shanghai's streets. The author receives no royalties from these. Often he never knows the book has been printed. The Retreat to Nanking. Forman 2316.GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 1
China, Harrison Forman, Wulf-Diether Castell and air crew in front of airplane
No full text14-passenger Junkers operated by Eurasia Aviation Corporation (33 1/3 owned by Lufthansa, with German pilots), from Shanghai to Lanchow [Lanzhou] in North-western China. The author, third from left.China: Nac, Douglas, EurasiaLocation of image could be Shanghai or Lanzhou, Gansu province. Caption from image published in Popular Flying.GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 2
Gayle Forman Josette Frank Award 2025 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Gayle Forman wins the Josette Frank Award 2025 for Not Nothing from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Josette Frank Award
This award for fiction honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally. The award has been given annually since 1943. Josette Frank, the editor of anthologies for children, served for many years as the Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America of which this committee was a part.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1020/thumbnail.jp
Iran, main entrance of Tomb of Saadi in Shiraz
No full textIran - Shiraz, tomb of famed poet Saadi 1184-1291, author of Gulistan, The "Nightingale" of ShirazColo
Through Forbidden Tibet [Motion Picture Film]
No full textScene-to-Scene Correction of 16mm B&W Print w/Sound TRT - 10:03, WO#65255, 5/27/2013, DVDHarrison Forman produced Through Forbidden Tibet with footage he filmed while visiting the Tibetan Plateau in 1932. Scenes include the distant view of Hsin-Kung monastery complex in Chengde, Hebei province and the arrival of the 9th Panchen Lama to Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province. Tibetan warriors armed with spear-like rifles ride horseback along the procession carrying the Panchen lama in a sedan chair, while pilgrims and lamas crowd the monastery to welcome him. A mass chanting led by the Panchen Lama focuses on the crowd of lamas joining in prayer followed by an examination for lamas looking to ascend to a higher rank. The Grand Living Buddha, Jamv Japa, is shown camped on a pilgrimage to Lhasa. Harrison Forman is pictured with his camera laughing with Japa. Pilgrims whirl prayer drums (or wheels) or prostrate around the monastery. A nomad camp is shown with men sitting around a campfire drinking tsamba, a tea, and pay homage to the Grand Living Buddha. Buddha and guardian sculptures inside Labrang Monastery are shown, as well as lamas playing cymbals and instruments while they chant prayers inside the temple. The Tibetan Devil Dance takes place in the courtyard of Labrang Monastery with costumed characters twirl and dance for the crowds. Finally, a 'sky burial' is shown as a nomad cuts up the body of the deceased Licksha Yamstel, Harrison Forman's guide, who was killed by bandits. Vultures descend on the body, eating the flesh.GrayscaleSoundTitle: Through Forbidden Tibet
Harrison Forman, explorer, author and newspaper correspondent, spent fifteen years in the Far East. Internationally famous for his three expeditions to Tibet he was technical advisor on ‘Lost Horizons’ [Lost Horizon].
Narration: Tibet is the Holy Rome of Buddhism. The religion of one-third of the peoples of this earth. I took these particular scenes at a time of the Panchen Lama, the spiritual leader of Buddhism, had returned to his native Tibet [Panning scenes of Hsin-kung monastery complex in Chengde (formerly Jehol), Hebei province. See still image fr204658.]. It was the occasion for tremendous celebration. More than half a million people had gathered here from the far corners of Asia [Large crowd of Tibetan warriors riding slowly on horseback].
Because of the high altitudes, averaging two to three miles above sea level, walking is breathtaking and everyone rides horseback [Tibetan warriors riding horseback. Group of Tibetans surrounding sedan chair, possibly with the Panchen Lama. Tibetan pilgrims covering the hillside watching the sedan chair pass by. Long shot of groups on horseback making way past camp with tents. View of crowds at Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province, next to row of chortens (or stupas). Men carrying Panchen Lama in covered sedan chair at Labrang Monastery. Tibetans watching the procession. Group of men with round hats and Chinese-style tunics, leading the procession with Panchen Lama in sedan chair close behind. See still image fr204098. Soldiers surrounding the Panchen Lama. Groups of monks walking in procession.].
Cymbals and drums herald the approach of the Panchen Lama who is to preside at the mass chanting session in the lamasery’s courtyard [Aerial view of procession, including monks with hats]. To the spectators he is something of a living god [Spanning crowd of seated monks to the left in courtyard of Labrang Monastery, Xiahe, Gansu province]. For long hours the deep voice chanting is led by the Panchen Lama, seated on the high dais at the head of the main aisle [Seated Panchen Lama, long shot of crowd, main aisle and dais, spanning left side of crowd of lamas]. And then follows an examination for lamas aspiring to higher rank [Closer shot of lamas wearing hats] and woe be to him who misses a question which may be put forward by any one of the gathered examiners. And, often it’s a bit rough on the applicant who has to take it or else [Close up of lama with hat challenging an applicant with animated, dance-like gestures]. On to Jamv Japa, a bright lad at about 17, he is the fourth in the hierarchy of living Buddhism in Tibet [Jamv Japa. See similar still image fr203733. Jamv Japa and Harrison Forman together. Forman with his camera around his neck, all laughing]. He is on a pilgrimage to Lhasa [Close-up of Jamv Japa’s face, smiling and laughing. See similar still image fr203694].
Every sacred building in Tibet is protected by these prayer drums [Men spinning prayer wheels]. They are jammed with thousands of bits of paper upon each of which is a passage from the holy Buddhist scriptures [Men and women spinning prayer wheels]. Every time you whirl one of these drums, you are credited with having uttered so many prayers in the books of the hereafter [Close-up of people spinning prayer wheels]. You’ll find these people both lamas and laymen, walking around the lamasery day and night, whirling these drums. For the more drums you whirl, the more prayers are credited to you [More scenes of people whirling prayer wheels. See similar still image fr203603.]. Some are not content with whirling the prayer drums and will measure their lengths around the lamasery [Woman prostrating in prayer, measuring the length of her body on the ground and repeating at the line she has used to measure her length].
Note that particular pitch-fork affair at the end of their rifles [Tibetan warriors with guns and their horses. See similar still image fr203710.]. It acts as a rifle rest when firing from seated or prone position [Guns on the backs of the warriors]. Those spears are sometimes 15 to 20 feet long [More scenes of warriors with guns on their backs at camp. Close-up of warrior, bare-chested with beaded jewelry and gun on his back. Close-up of the warrior’s face]. [Group of nomadic men sitting around camp fire with tents in the background]. The Tibetan staple food is tsamba, T-S-A-M-B-A [Man pouring tea into other man’s bowl with ladle]. It consists of the mush of buttered tea and roasted barley flour. The tea is boiled with argali or yak dung, for wood is not only scarce but precious in nomadic Tibet [Scenes of nomadic men around campfire, pots over fire]. The bellows is made of sheep-skin with a metal pipe [Close-up view of man pumping sheep-skin bellows to stoke fire. Men around fire eating.]. At the end of the day the tribal chieftains pay homage to the young living Buddha. He gets a big kick out of it [Man pouring tea in other man’s bowl].
Labrang Gomba in northeastern Tibet is Buddhism’s fourth largest lamasery [Buddha sculpture in lamasery, close-up of hands] with over 5,000 lamas in permanent residence. [Guardian sculpture, other sculptures. See similar still images fr204594, fr204595, fr204627, fr204608, fr204610.] Within the lamasery’s idol houses are giant Buddhas, some of them two and three stories high and sheeted with gold. They have a deep religious significance. Often whole rooftops of the idol houses throughout Tibet are sheeted with gold [Close-up of face of Great Buddha statue in main temple Ta-fo-szu in Chengde (formerly Jehol), downward shot of feet]. All day long [Lamas, sitting in temple with narrow tables] and sometimes all through the night the lamas sit and chant to the accompaniment of cymbals, bells and drums [Lamas playing cymbals and other instruments and chanting. See still images fr204576, fr204578, fr204579. Hats are folded and placed on tables before them. Young lama playing large hanging drum. Close-up of one chanting lama who looks reluctantly at camera. Shot of temple interior with lamas at tables wearing their hats.].
The Devil Dances are performed four times yearly [Labrang Monastery courtyard (Xiahe, Gansu province) where characters in the Devil Dance are performing for lamas surrounding the perimeter. See still image fr204119.]. The name Devil Dance is a misnomer, for it doesn’t mean what it suggests. Perhaps our best counterpart to the Tibetan Devil Dance would be the Passion Play at a Christian church [Closer shot of performers twirling and dancing. See similar still images fr204564, fr204565]. It is a church giving religious instruction to the laity by means of the drama [Characters wearing large masks and elaborate costumes move through the crowd into the courtyard, dancing]. These are the evil spirits, perhaps this is where they get the term ‘Devil Dance’ [Many different costumed characters are shown, some with large human-like masks, some with animal faces with antlers]. The costumes are made of the most exquisite silks and are imported at great expense from Peiping [Beijing]. These silks have travelled thousands of miles across China and Mongolia to Tibet.
The Tibetan believes that at death the body must be completely destroyed before the spirit may reincarnate. The flesh is then fed to the vultures to speed up this process [Nomad cutting the body of Licksha Yamstel, Forman’s guide who was killed during a bandit attack. See still image fr003986. Vultures attacking and eating the flesh off the dead body]. After most of the flesh is eaten away, the bones are hacked up by the dead one’s relatives and the vultures then allowed to finish the job. There’s little more than a blood spot left when they are through [shot of cultures covering and attacking the body. See still images fr202357 and fr202409. Then a man continuing to hack at the body with a hatchet]. It is a strange truce between man and birds of prey
Tibet, the Forbidden Land, is still one of the last unexplored frontiers of the world today. It is a land of mystery with the world's most religious people, and yet a land where no man dares venture to far from his tent without a rifle over his back
Letter from Henry Buxton Forman to Horatio Noble Pym
No full textAutograph letter from Henry Buxton Forman to Horatio Noble Pym. Transcription included.38 Marlborough Hill
St. John’s Wood N.W.
26 April 1878
Dear Sir,
I enclose printed particulars of a translation of Villon’s Poetry, by Payne, whom you doubtless know as author of “The Masque of Shadows,” “Intaglios,” &c. In common with a number of literary men, I am anxious to see the book in print; and [p. 2] there seems no such ready means to that end as a private subscription.
Mr Payne was not disposed to move in the matter beyond the circle of his own immediate friends; so he has placed his subscription list in my hands, that I may see if the necessary complement of subscribers cannot be obtained by seeking a little further.
[p. 3] May I reckon upon you? If so, pray do not trouble to write in reply, but kindly fill up the subscription form and return it to me at the above address.
I am very truly yours
H Buxton Forman [flourish]
H.N. Pym Esq
Singapore, commander J. Proud from British Naval Press Relations
No full textSingapore, Malaya: [35 & 37] F29 Dennis McEvoy, Chicago Times. (son of J.P. McEvoy, the well-known American playwright & author.) [36] commander J. Proud, British Naval Press Relations contact in Singapore.GrayscaleForman Safety Negatives, Box 1
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