Leather-bound photo album with embroidered black velvet cover. A: Black leather souvenir photo album for U.S. Navy personnel, formerly belonging to Stanley T. Rice. The cover is embossed with stereotypical scenes of Asia. The central motifs include an American Bald Eagle with banner in beak which reads, "Memory of my China Cruise" and a ship's anchor with life ring lettered with, "U.S.N. Asiatic Fleet". Each of the four corners features a different port stop: "Hawaii", "China" , "Japan", "Philippines". In the lower left corner is a rickshaw, in the upper left a Chinese style dragon, in the upper right a Japanese pagoda, and in the lower right a double-sail sanpan. The pages of the scrapbook are black and feature a variety of black and white and tinted souvenir photographs. Photographs as follows: page one-- introduction to "My Oriental Album" belonging to Stanley T. Rice page 2 -- sampans page 3 -- U.S. destroyers resting along side "Harebour Chefoo" page 4 -- bridge and gate to temple complex page 4a - menu from H.Swee Hong Tea Room page 5 -- tinted photo of a temple (tea room?) page 6 -- photo of "To a Shipmate" poem page 7 -- photo of a harbor page 8 -- photo from town looking out to sea page 9 -- territorial view of town page 10 -- " view of town page 11 -- " view of town page 12 -- photo of 2 shops and light house page 13 -- photo of bay with ships page 14 -- photo of ships and sanpan page 15 -- territorial view of town page 16 -- view of bay, beach page 17 -- port of ? page 18 -- areial veiw of city page 19 -- photo of ships, smoke in background page 20 -- fleet of ships coming into port page 21 -- port city of ? page 22 -- photo of clock building (Air Mail Travel by CNAC) page 23 -- temple grounds page 24 -- port city of ? page 25 -- vicotrious monument in Peking port; Hokai Hekishora, Peking page 26 -- Hokai-Goryutei, Peking page 27 -- view of Chefoo page 28 -- beach view page 29 -- Scott's scrapbook page 30 -- photo of dragon page 31 -- temple photo page 32 -- pagoda photo page 33 -- temple page 34 -- temple page 35 -- three children sleeping page 36 -- three cats cartoon page 37 -- Great Wall of China page 38 -- Great Wall page 39 -- a dry martini... cartoon page 40 -- topless women carrying baskets on their heads page 41 -- topless woman carrying fruit on her head page 42 -- no photo page 43 -- the big Buddha at Tokyo page 44 -- man, mules and two women page 45 -- Hong Kong harbor page 46 -- Sanpans in water (note proportion discrepency) page 47 -- map of the Orient page 48 -- temple complex page 49 -- men paddling a "dragon" boat page 50 -- temple complex page 51 -- temple complex, boats in front page 52 -- temple complex page 53 -- honeymoon cartoon page 54 -- two children with boxing gloves cartoon page 55 -- 6 photos/ship 212 page 56 -- 6 photos of ships page 57 -- 6 photos/boating, beach, fishing, ricshaws, bike, garden page 58 -- 6 photos/territorial views, straw houses on stilts, boats page 59 -- 6 photos/temple complex page 60 -- 6 photos/children, temple, boat page 61 -- 6 photos/city views page 62 -- 6 photos/city and harbor views page 63 -- 6 photos/houses and dock views page 64 -- 6 photos/cannon, lighthouse, harbor views page 65 -- 6 photos/Nanking Rd, the Wing On Co. S'hai, Willow Tea House page 66 -- 6 photos/street scene, soldier, canon page 67 -- 6 photos/the Wing On Co. S'hai, Nanking Rd, Chinese junk page 68 -- 6 photos/city scenes, Chinese junk page 69 -- 6 photos/pagoda and sculptures page 70 -- 5 photos/pagoda and Great Wall page 71 -- 6 photos/temple gates, stautes, ornate boat page 72 -- 5 photos/Great Wall of China page 73 -- pagoda with archway, bridge page 74 -- 6 photos/building with boaters in front; woman on donkey page 75 -- 6 photos/military ships page 76 -- 4 photos/(2 missing) Siamese twins [body with two heads] page 77 -- 6 photos/ships; U.S.S. New Mexico at Panama Canal page 78 -- 6 photos/ships in combat page 79 -- 6 photos/landscapes, pagoda, boaters at sunset page 80 -- 6 photos/parade of sailors, ships at dock page 81 -- 6 photos/ships #218, 224, 222, 219 page 82 -- 6 photos/ships #217, 211, 226, 228 page 83 -- 6 photos/town with sea wall, ship at sunset page 84 -- 6 photos/scenery, peddlers, kids sleeping on a pig page 85 -- 6 photos/seaside town, rickshaws, church page 86 -- 6 photos/scenery, mounted cannons page 87 -- 5 photos/proofs, cafe, temple complex page 88 -- 6 photos/seaside town, mule carrying two men and baskets page 89 -- 5 photos/all missing page 90 -- ? photos/all missing page 91 -- 6 photos/deities page 92 -- 6 photos/deities page 93 -- 6 photos/six women in various poses (one clutching her purse) page 94 -- 6 photos/deities page 95 -- 6 photos/ six women in various poses (one in bathing suit) page 96 -- 6 photos/six women in various poses (one sitting next to a pool) B: Black velvet album cover with side snap closure and carrying handle. Cover is lined with pink and blue plaid silk and the edges are trimmed in red fabric. Embroidered on the front is a Chinese style dragon, a rickshaw, a pagoda, a sanpan, and a ship's anchor with "USN". In orange thread is embroidered, "S.T. Rice, U.S. Navy". The embroidered scenes are sewn withorange, brown, gray, yellow, green, black, purple and pink threads. On the back cover is a pair of crossed U.S. Flags with a Bald Eagle above stitched in similar colors.

1988.006