Marianas Islands
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grant, Robert W.
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content: Robert W. Grant papers and photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1975-30, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged alphabetically by island.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Aerial photographs. Also included are six negatives which correspond to six prints of Guam - these show more ocean and parts of other airplanes than the island itself, several pages of intelligence reports for Guam, Rota, Saipan, and Tinian islands. Volume I of the notebooks contains military information, a history of the Lizama family with whom Grant became acquainted, comments on the social life and customs of the Chamorro people and photographs of the Lizama family, daily chores, vegetation, games (Chunka, with instructions for playing), and some aerial photographs of Tumon Bay. Volume II includes military photographs, photographs of pre-war Guam, schools, homes, natives, villages, ornamentation, and dancing. Volume III contains letters from Maj. Oliver Franklin regarding the obtaining of merchandise in Hawaii for the Lizama family, letters from members of the Lizama family to Grant, a few photographs, magazine clippings regarding Guam, and a translation from Spanish to English of a school text entitled The History of Guam which was used in Chamorro schools. Additional material can be found in series 14, 15, and 18.