Japan
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grant, Robert W.
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content: Robert W. Grant papers and photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1975-30, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged alphabetically by island.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Aerial photographs. Includes many photographs of Iwo Jima during and after the battle along with target status reports. There is also a ten page intelligence document covering the southern Nanpo Shoto or southern islands which include the Bonin and Kazan groups. The two notebooks contain information about Okinawa. Volume I includes Grant's comments on that island and his impressions of life there. There are numerous photographs of landscapes plus some of dancing and music, family life, everyday chores, children, burial customs, calligraphy and calligraphers, dress, homes, villages, markets, sports, games, fishing, boats, shrines, crafts, war damage, the U.S. military, and delegates to the surrender ceremony. Additional material can be found in series 14, 15, 16, and 18.