Willard Edwin Graves photographs of Burma
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 75-7
name: label: Creator
content: Graves, Willard Edwin
label: Names
content: Harwood, Harry
place: label: Place
content: Rangoon (Burma)
topic: label: Topic
content: Burmese -- Agriculture
label: Topic
content: Mosques
label: Topic
content: Buddhist monks
label: Topic
content: Missions
label: Topic
content: Pagodas
creator: label: Creator
content: Graves, Willard Edwin
culture: label: Culture
content: Shan (Asian people)
label: Culture
content: Chin (Southeast Asian people)
label: Culture
content: Burmese
label: Culture
content: Karen (Southeast Asian people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Williard Edwin Graves (1880-1966) was an American missionary in Rangoon from 1908-1913. He and his wife, Almyra Alford Graves, were commissioned by the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church to teach at the Methodist Episcopal Church School for Boys in Rangoon. Graves later served as principal of the school until his wife's ill health forced them to return to the United States.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 67 Lantern slides
label: Extent
content: 1 Cassette tape
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908-1913
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The lantern slides and tape recording were donated by Anabel and James Robertson to the Department of Anthropology and then transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1974.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.75-7
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Cassette tapes
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Audiocassettes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiocassettes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting government buildings, Christian missions, Buddhist pagodas and monks, Muslim mosques, industry, agriculture, and dances in Burma. People depicted include Chins, Karens, Shans, Burmese, and Methodist missionaries. Some of the handcolored lantern slides are marked by the Christian Lecture Bureau in Chicago and others depict a map and sheet music, indicating that they may have been assembled for a lecture.

A recording made in 1970 by the Reverend Harry Harwood, who taught at the same school as Graves but at a later time, includes a commentary on the slides.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional missionary photographs of Burma can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 74-50.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The United Methodist Church's General Commission on Archives and History holds the Willard Edwin Graves Papers.