Harvard University

Scope and Contents: Twleve minutes and twenty-five seconds of footage shows the Harvard baseball team members, staff, and their female guests visiting various places in Japan, including parks, such as Nara Park, and a temple. Also shows a crowd of mostly Japanese people bidding farewell to the Harvard team. Additionally, footage shows a baseball trophy ceremony between the Harvard University and Keio teams, and footage of baseball practices and games.

Scope and Contents: Twelve minutes and fifty-five seconds of footage showing a group of men, presumably the Harvard baseball team and staff, doing a variety of activities, including boarding a bus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, throwing around a baseball on the side of a road, boarding a train, and playing a baseball game, possibly against Stanford University. Footage then shows the group en route to Hawaii, aboard the M.S. Tatsuta Maru, posing for photographs with the ship's crew. Upon...

Scope and Contents: Nine minutes and forty-five seconds of footage includes scenes aboard the S.S. Taiyo Maru. Baseball footage shows a marching band, as well as players from the United States and Japanese teams from Keio and Waseda Universities. Other footage shows an airplane flying in the sky, and scattered throughout the footage are several text slides with Japanese characters and some English words.

Overview: This collection documents Joseph Vera’s association with the Harvard fencing team, the Harvard Glee Club, his participation in Class of 1950 reunions, and his attendance at athletic events including Harvard football games. Joseph Sequeira Vera (1928-2018), a lawyer, received an AB from Harvard University (1950), a Juris Doctor from Boston University (1953), and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University (1955). He practiced law in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1954-1970 before accepting a...