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Early Chiang Kai-shek Rule Taiwan Christian Missionary Photo Album Documenting Urban and Rural Transformation, 1950s-60s by Taiwan Missionary Photo Album

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Title: Early Chiang Kai-shek Rule Taiwan Christian Missionary Photo Album Documenting Urban and Rural Transformation, 1950s-60s
Author: Taiwan Missionary Photo Album
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1950. [Taiwan] Missionary photograph album documenting Christian evangelical and educational work in Taiwan in 1950s and 1960s, created during the first post Civil War decade of Kuomintang rule on the island and reflecting the consolidation of the Republic of China government after 1949. Produced in the early Cold War context, when Taiwan functioned as a strategic anti Communist ally of the United States. The photographs materially situate Protestant missionary presence within broader themes of American religious engagement in East Asia, post war reconstruction, rural modernization, and the social policies of Chiang Kai shek's government. Through images of church buildings, worship services, children's gatherings, agricultural landscapes, and market towns, the album provides visual evidence of how Christianity operated at the village level during a period marked by martial law, land reform, and rapid demographic change following mainland refugee migration. Mid-century Taiwan missionary work photo album containing over 190 black and white photos. Red spiral bound photograph album containing black and white silver gelatin prints mounted to black leaves, documenting missionary activity across rural and small town Taiwan in 1950s and 1960. Old owner's name inscribed on front free end page; "Daniel Earl Speakman" and dated "7/25/07." Album measures 10" x 15", and most photos measure 3" x 4". Photographs depict newly constructed or recently adapted church buildings with simple façades and cross insignia, interior worship scenes with wooden pews and pulpits, congregational group portraits of Taiwanese parishioners and missionaries, children assembled for religious instruction, and outdoor preaching or fellowship events. Additional images show various regions of Taiwan including iconic buildings in Taipei such as the Air Force Supply Command of the Tainan State Office, and the Chinese modernist building representing the National Taiwain Craft Research and Development Institute, formerly the National Taiwan Science Hall, Fujinan style temple facades, Japanese colonial architecture including a pagoda in the midst of a agricultural field, a church centered community building, rural evangelism, congregational gatherings, and local village life. River local life, fishing channels with fisherman small boats, fields with simple irrigation channels. The port suggest the port town of Keelung, a major harbor for shipping and trade and served as the sole entry point to Taiwan from the sea during the 1950s. These photographs depict the port as a vital hub for commerce and maritime activities. Village lanes with brick and tile structures, open air food and basket markets, bicycles and hand carts in busy streets, and domestic architecture reflect mid twentieth century rural Taiwanese construction that transformed the island. The photographs documents the island after the Nationalist retreat and during the height of United States support for the Republic of China, the album reflects the integration of missionary networks into Cold War geopolitics and local social development. Christian missions in Taiwan during this period frequently combined evangelism with education, literacy training, and community organization, aligning with broader anti Communist and modernization agendas. The visual pairing of church construction, rural labor, children's instruction, and traditional temple architecture underscores the coexistence and negotiation between imported Protestant practice and established Chinese religious culture in late 1950s Taiwan. Oversize album format with photographs corner mounted; light edge wear to covers, minor surface marks and occasional silvering to prints consistent with age; photographs generally clear and well preserved. Overall condition very good. A cohesive Cold War era Taiwan missionary record documenting faith, rural society, and state aligned modernization at the local level.

[Manuscript Document Confirming Montgomery County Resident Robert Lyles Not "Trafficking in Slaves," Just Simply a Slave Owner Himself] by [Slavery]: [Maryland]: [Lyles, Robert]

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Title: [Manuscript Document Confirming Montgomery County Resident Robert Lyles Not "Trafficking in Slaves," Just Simply a Slave Owner Himself]
Author: [Slavery]: [Maryland]: [Lyles, Robert]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Frederick, MD: October 2, 1818. [1]p., docketed on verso. Roughly torn along bottom edge, minor foxing and spotting. Good condition. An uncommon document in Maryland slave history, in which George Baer, the future mayor of Frederick, and a few other men attest that another local citizen named Robert Lyles is not a slave trader. The document reads, in part: "[Lyles] is on his way to your house to purchase a family of negroes. We have known Mr. Lyles many years and have never heard of his Trafficking in Slaves, nor do we believe that in this instance he has any other view, but to purchase them for his own use." Baer served as mayor of Frederick from 1820 to 1823; his correspondent, "C. Burney" is perhaps Clotworthy Birney (1765-1845), a farmer and real estate trader living near Taney Town. An unusual Maryland slave document concerning a slave owner who just wants to buy slaves for his own use, not traffic in them, because that's somehow better.

Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-1955 by Canemaker, John

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Title: Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-1955
Author: Canemaker, John
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. First American Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, no discernible wear to book; the jacket has some very slight wear along the top edge and a bit of scuffing to the rear panel, but still presents beautifully in a new mylar cover]. (color/B&W illustrations and photos) Nicely-produced and lavishly-illustrated survey of the great animation director's most creative period, during which he made many of the cartoons for which he is best remembered today: RED HOT RIDING HOOD, BAD LUCK BLACKIE, KING-SIZE CANARY, DRAG-A-LONG DROOPY, and many others. The Foreword and Introduction are by two of Avery's contemporaries, William Hanna and Chuck Jones, respectively. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy oversize book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is free.**** .

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