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Milwaukee River, N from Clybourn Street, Milwaukee
No full textView north on the Milwaukee River, with the BankOne (Marine) Plaza, constructed by Harrison & Abramovitz in 1961, and the Pabst Building, which was built by Solon S. Beman in 1892.Colo
Harrison Forman Diary, China, October 1943
No full textHarrison Forman, photographer and journalist, writes in this diary about the filming of a movie with Japanese prisoners being held in an internment camp in China during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Forman meets with the director of the movie, Ho Fei-kwan of the China Film company (also known as Lianhua Film Company), noting the director's background and how the project was conceived. Forman then interviews several of the Japanese prisoners who are featured in the movie, Yamamoto Kohoru, who plays the leading role of a ship captain, Susumo Soku, Nobuo Takahashi, Yoshio Nishimura, and Sakai Taneguchi. Forman also interviews Kazuo Aoyama, the advisor on the film, who escorted the prisoners, and they talk about the prisoners' ambitions, the amount they are paid for labor, and discuss their affinity for movies. Forman then reports of the opening of Chungking's (Chongqing) Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute. Chang Tao-fan, a prominent figure and long-time central member of the Kuomintang, as well as former President of the Broadcasting Corporation of China, introduced the school's faculty and Harold Cross, Journalism Professor of Columbia University. Forman ends his diary with an account of a visit by Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten, who was appointed Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.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.
Marie Harrison
No full textMarie Harrison is pictured her junior year at Uintah Academy. She is the daughter of Richard and Almira Harrison. She married Harold Merrill in August 1925. She died December 29, 2000
Viola M. Harrison letter to Lucile Atcherson, August 14, 1914
No full textOn August 14, 1914, the executive secretary of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, Viola M. Harrison, sent this letter to Lucile Atcherson, a suffragist in central Ohio and executive secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Harrison wrote to Atcherson to confirm that the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association's state banner, which had been on loan with the FCWSA, had arrived safely in Lincoln, Nebraska. Harrison also congratulated Atcherson on a successful petition event in Ohio, and expressed her hopes for both Ohio and Nebraska to achieve equal suffrage for women.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Col. Laurence Tassy, Harold Simpson, Del Brewster, Harrison Brothers, Maj. Gen. Bryce Poe, Fred Ball and Wendell Adams
No full textBlack and white photograph of Colonel Laurence Tassy, Harold Simpson, Del Brewster, Harrison Brothers, Major General Bryce Poe, Fred S. Ball and Wendell Adam
CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2018). CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223946
'If I should die tonight' poem
No full textHumorous poem copied by Harrison Kerr and written by Benjamin Franklin King ca. 1890. The poem, titled "If I should die tonight," jokes about money owed to the author and the shock he would experience at being repaid upon his death. It was written as a parody of a serious contemporary poem of the same title.
Harrison Henry Kerr (1839-1901), born in North Georgetown, Ohio, served along with his brother, Ezra, as a private in Company D of the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, on December 29, 1862., and held for three months before being exchanged and returning to his regiment. He was discharged on January 14, 1865. Following the war, he was married to Elizabeth (Rettig) Kerr. The two lived in Cleveland and had one son, Harrison McKinley Kerr. In 1888, he joined the Memorial Post No. 141, Grand Army of the Republic. He is buried in North Georgetown Cemetery
Scott Harrison: Founder and CEO of Charity: Water and New York Times Best-Selling Author
No full textScott Harrison spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia. Returning to New York two years later, he founded the nonprofit organization charity: water in 2006.
To address the global water crisis and help the world\u27s 663 million people without clean water to drink, charity: water has raised more than $350 million and funded nearly 30,000 water projects in 26 countries. When completed, those projects will provide more than 8.5 million people with safe drinking water.
He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and author of the New York Times bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
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