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ITEM — Box: 2, Reel: 9 Identifier: HUM 187

[Stanford baseball team], 1934 Digital

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 arrival in Hawaii, the men pose for photographs with Native American men in costume and attend military review exercises at Schofield Barracks. Additionally, a group of men in Harvard hats are joined by Harvard alumnus President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is seen seated and in a car, often smiling and laughing. Other footage shows more baseball games and practices, men and women on a ship, possibly in Hawaii, and a group of men eating together on a boat.

Dates

  • Creation: 1934

Researcher Access

Open for research. Most of the film reels in this collection have been digitized, although use copies are needed; see reference staff for details.

Extent

1 film reels : silent; 12 minutes 55 seconds

Biographical / Historical

The Tatsuta Maru was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1927-1930 by the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Nagasaki, Japan, and was built for the trans-Pacific Orient-California fortnightly service; the principal ports-of-call included Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Repository Details

Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository

Holding nearly four centuries of materials, the Harvard University Archives is the principal repository for the institutional records of Harvard University and the personal archives of Harvard faculty, as well as collections related to students, alumni, Harvard-affiliates and other associated topics. The collections document the intellectual, cultural, administrative and social life of Harvard and the influence of the University as it emerged across the globe.

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