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Afghanistan, group watching Harrison Forman smoke hookah
Smoking a hubble-bubble in AfghanistanSee Harrison Forman Diary page 34 for description of hookah and page 35 for men's names. Harrison Forman in middle smoking the hookah. Joe Donohue on left holding cup.Harrison Forman Diary, Afghanistan, August 1953 accessible at http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/55GrayscaleForman Safety Negatives, Box 2
China, Harrison Forman with unidentified Japanese officer and other men
China: Yellow River floodThe man on right wearing a suit is possibly Harrison Forman's interpreter, Mr. Kumazawa. Harrison Forman is pictured on left with pipe. They are standing in front of a military post office.Harrison Forman Diary, China, July 1938 available at http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/forman,7Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 2
Peru, Harrison Forman shooting harpoon into water
Harrison Forman on the fore-deck of the converted submarine chaser about to fire the harpoon cannon at a whale off the coast of Peru.Peru: WhalesGrayscaleForman Safety Negatives, Box 2
Afghanistan, Governor Ismail Khan and Harrison Forman
Harrison Forman with Ismail [Ismail] Khan, the progressive governor of Kataghan province in the extreme northeast bordering on Soviet Russia. The governor's hat is made of karakul, the fleece from a new-born lamb. Karakul is Afghanistan's principal export, most of which goes to America where it is highly prized for women's coats. Afghanistan.AfghanistanSee Harrison Forman Diary page 36 for details about Governor Ismail Khan (on left).Harrison Forman Diary, Afghanistan, August 1953 accessible at http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/55GrayscaleForman Safety Negatives, Box 2
Kaifeng (China), Harrison Forman filming Jewish descendents
Harrison Forman with Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, China.China: Yellow River flood - Kaifeng JewsThe Kaifeng Jews were a centuries-old Jewish community that settled in China, possibly as early as the 12th century.Kaifeng Jew. (2012). In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9044328GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 2
Malaysia, Harrison Forman and Gurkha soldier with decorated kukri scabbard
Malaysia - HF [Harrison Forman] with Gurkha in Malaya (HF [Harrison Forman] holding a kukri).ColorBox 2
Xuzhou (China), Harrison Forman and Bishop Philip Cote
From New York City Program, October, 1938: Harrison Forman, with Bishop Cote, who bravely remained in Hsuchow, taking care of 3,000 refugees. Harrison Forman was the first foreigner to enter the fallen city.China: Yellow River floodBishop Cote, originally from Boston, MA, came to China in 1938 and became bishop of Hsuchow (Xuzhou) in 1935. He was imprisoned by Chinese communists for two years, then exiled in 1953. In 1954 he established a Catholic church in Suao in eastern Taiwan.Bishop assigned to Kinmen, Matsu. (February, 1969). Taiwan Today. Retrieved from http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=146447&CtNode=103GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 2
Beijing (China), Harrison Forman with Ye Jianying
Print 1679 c4 through c11, c22 and c23: Harrison Forman & Marshal Yeh Chien-Ying [Ye Jianying]. Harrison Forman greeted in the Great Hall of the People where he was received as a Special Guest of the People's Republic of China. During World War II when he was a foreign correspondent based in Chungking [Chongqing], China's wartime capital, Mr. Forman was the first American newsman to reach the northern areas controlled by the Chinese communists. His book, Report from Red China, recounting his many talks with Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong] and other Red Leaders, and his months of travel with the Red Army in combat operations against the Japanese, was selected by the New York Times for its Best Seller List and was translated into fifteen languages, including Chinese. It has since become something of a classic and was recently re-published -- 30 years later!Ye Jianying (1897-1986) was a Chinese communist military officer, administrator, and statesman in the Chinese government during the 1970s and 1980s.Ye Jianying. (2012). In Encyclopdia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9077885GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 3
China, People's Militia members in Yan'an teach Harrison Forman how to make mines
Caption 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
China, Harrison Forman looking at a map with Imperial Japanese Army soldiers
China: Yellow River floodHarrison Forman on right wearing white hat holding movie camera.GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 2
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