Mary Vance Trent photographs of Micronesia
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 97-15
name: label: Creator
content: Trent, Mary Vance, 1914-1998
label: Names
content: United States. Armed Forces
place: label: Place
content: New Hampshire
label: Place
content: Saipan
label: Place
content: Palau
label: Place
content: Yap (Micronesia)
label: Place
content: Washington (D.C.)
label: Place
content: Boston (Mass.)
label: Place
content: Cape Cod (Mass.)
label: Place
content: Micronesia
label: Place
content: Mariana Islands
label: Place
content: Marshall Islands
label: Place
content: Guam
label: Place
content: Pohnpei Island (Micronesia)
topic: label: Topic
content: Hotels
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Boats and boating
creator: label: Creator
content: Trent, Mary Vance, 1914-1998
culture: label: Culture
content: Chuukese (Micronesian people)
label: Culture
content: Ulithi
label: Culture
content: Pohnpei
label: Culture
content: Kosrae
label: Culture
content: Yapese (Micronesian people)
label: Culture
content: Japanese
label: Culture
content: Taiwanese
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Mary Vance Trent (1914-1998) was a foreign service officer for the State Department.  She represented the US in the Pacific Islands, including in Samoa and Tonga (1969-1972), and acted as political advisor during the transition of Micronesia from a US territory to a municipality of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (1972-1974).  Over her career, Trent acquired many Polynesian and Micronesian objects, some of which she donated to the Smithsonian.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 578 Color prints (circa 578 color prints)
label: Extent
content: 521 Color negatives (circa)
label: Extent
content: 9 Postcards (color halftone)
label: Extent
content: 47 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1972-1976
label: Date
content: bulk 1972-1974
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Mary Vance Trent through Adrienne L. Kaeppler, 1997.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.97-15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color prints
label: Type
content: Color negatives
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made during Mary Vance Trent's time in Micronesia, including in Guam, Saipan, Palau, Yap, Pohnpei, and the Marshall Islands and Taipei.  The images depict towns, buildings and other remains of the Japanese and Spanish occupations, boats, airplanes, houses and hotels, US military events, aerial views, and people (including residents and United States and United Nations delegates). The collection also includes some photographs made in Cape Cod, Boston, Washington, DC, and New Hampshire, as well as commercial postcards with images of Saipan and other Mariana Islands.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected by Trent in Polynesia, Micronesia, and New Guinea held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 416128.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Library of Congress holds the Mary Vance Trent Papers.