Archives West Finding Aid

Ship leaving New York, Jan. 7, 1933. Captain Fritz Kruse on deck with sextant, binoculars. Madeira. Terreiro da Lucta. Reid's Palace Hotel. Funchal. Gibraltar. Alameda Gardens. Spanish street vendors with vegetables and milk. Townspeople and donkey laden with baskets on steps in town. Monaco and the French Riviera. The Grand Corniche. Nice. Monte Carlo.

Naples: views of busy streets, view of Vesuvius expelling steam. Athens. Ancient temples, historic sites. Jerusalem: Jaffa Gate. The Street of David. Orthodox priests in procession with coffin. Damascus Gate. Streets of Jewish Quarter, men praying at Wailing Wall. Via Dolorosa. Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Rachel's Tomb. The Well of the Three Wise Men. Bethlehem, "City of Nativity."

Egypt: woman wearing face veil. Pyramid, Sphinx. Cairo. The Citadel and Mohamed Ali Mosque. The Mouski Bazaar, "Center of all Trades." Boy shows carpet. Craftsman. Man weaving carpet. Pyramids. New Excavations. Archeological dig site. Sphinx. The Nile. Views of buildings on shoreline. Colossus of Ramses, alabaster sphinx at Memphis. Veiled women look at camera. People talking at outdoor café.Wagon overloaded with people. Tea vendor. Djibouti, Somaliland: People with jugs get milk from cow in street. Woman smiles at camera and claps hands. Dancing and festivity. Three women with jewelry, elaborate hairstyles clap and sing. People, probably tourists, dancing on ship.

Bombay. The Tower of Silence on Malabar Hill. Parsee men with body. Busy train station. Akbar's Fort. The Pearl Mosque. Woman washing clothes in river. Tomb of Idmad-ud-Daul. Trained bird performs as its handler stands in doorway. Bird lights a little cannon. The Taj Mahal. Man demonstrates wrapping of a turban. Fatepur-Sikri. The Tomb of Salem Chisti. Delhi. Houmayoum's Tomb. Building, man salutes coffin. Camel driven cart. The Tomb of Nizam-ud-Din. The Kutab Minar. Jami Masjid, largest mosque in India. Men praying. Chandni Chouk. Shajahanabad. View from train window.

Pilgrims bathing. A burning ghat. Procession with people carrying corpse to river's edge. Preparation of funeral pyre. Tonsorial artists. Man on bed of nails. Calcutta: Victoria memorial. Colonial tearoom, people seated at tables. Jain temple. Goat sacrifice. Worshippers, holy man, white peacock.

Steam train on track. Prayer wheels in a Tibetan monastery. Kinchinjanga. Men sit on ground playing game with old card deck. Festive ceremony with costumed dancers. Ceylon, the "pearl of India." A Ceylon devil dance. Children in costume dancing. Elephant doing tricks. Colombo. Mt. Lavinia Beach.

Ayer Itam Temple. Malaccirca Boats, busy market. Uniformed men marching in formation down street. Sikh man. Siam. Bangkok, the "Venice of the Orient." Wat Arun, the "Porcelain Temple." The Royal Palace. Temples and worshipers. Wat Po. Dancers with Hanuman mask.

Angkor Wat with elephants in foreground. Palace of the Leper King, Pra Khan. The Boro Boedoer, ancient Buddhist temple in the heart of Java. Rice paddies, farmer and buffalo plowing. People walking in rice paddy. Mendoet temple. Merapi Volcano. Singapore. A man fills opium pipe and lies down to smoke. Man tapping rubber tree in field. Tourists on a boat, women in bathing suits.

Weltevreden, "Residence of the Dutch." People, probably tourists, eating traditional Indonesian rijstafel ("rice table") dinner, served by Javanese waiters. Mangostines. Hands opening fruit. Old Batavia. "The Sacred Gun, where women pray for motherhood." People at shrine. Incense. Person making an offering or praying. Buitenzorg. Semarang. Bali, "island of primitive beauty." Batoer Crater. Traditional dance by two girls. Other dancers performing. Musicians. Person in ornate bird costume.

Men diving from sides of canoes or boats. Manila, Philippine Islands. Filipina woman smokes cheroot while seated in chair. Horse and buggy full of people and items strapped to sides on country road.

Views of Chinese junk sailing ships. Wedding procession: paper lantern, marchers, ornamented sedan chair. Victoria Peak to Repulse Bay. Canton. Small boats in busy harbor. Guards in uniforms with brass buttons walk through gate in area with other gate, bars. Man with cigarette uses foot and rope net pedal at machine to grind jade. The city of the dead. View of courtyard, shrine, incense burners. Taihoku. Island of Formosa. Ryujanzi temple.

Shanghai. Chapei. Rickshaws. Funeral procession, flags, carrying shrines, banners, very long dragon borne on people's shoulders. Ching-Wang-Tao Refugees, April 4th, 1933. Armed soldiers. Peiping, "the former Peking." Views of women with bound feet. Chien Men Gate. South gate of the imperial city. Policemen walk past elaborately carved façade. The Forbidden City. The Temple of Heaven. At the street barbershop, a man shaves another's forehead, braids his hair. The Great Wall of China. Men with poles carry Ford in a basket chair. Korea. Seoul. Keifuku Palace.

Kobe. Kyoto. Maruyama Park. Chion-In Monastery. Heiyan Shrine. Ieyasu Shrine. Torii gate. Iyemitsu Shrine. People wearing both western style and traditional Japanese clothes walk by an enormous temple bell. Man uses large piece of wood to ring bell. Avenues of lanterns. Yokohama. A group of women in kimonos stand atop a stage or platform and wave rising sun pattern national flags. Kamakura's Dai-Butsu. Views of the giant Buddha at Kamakura. "Tokio, the Imperial City." Mt. Fuji seen from train.

Honolulu. Waikiki. Hula dancers perform in group with sticks. Hilo. Kiluea Crater. A worker watches an outdoor conveyor belt carrying pieces of cane. Rainbow Falls. Onomea Arch. San Francisco. The Panama Canal. Culebra Cut. Through Gatun Lock. Havana, Cuba.

Woman in kimono seated by candle. Man and woman outdoors stand on riverbank as boats pass by.Effect of a camera iris opening. Man in Western dress stands on shore with a camera. Busy park scene with people dancing. Drummer, woman wearing long robe or dress faces man as she dances. Two men in Western dress dance nearby. Two girls in school uniform run past. Water wheel, boats. Building reflected in water. People with headscarves on riverbank. One passes close to camera; she has a child strapped to her back. A person tows a boat along a canal with a rope. Title card with kanji over the image of a deer.View of a multi-story temple. View of small temple or shrine building and water. Tourists with deer. Deer beg for food from a woman. Man walks through crowd of deer carrying a box suspended from a pole. Deer walk in a herd. People picknicking on the grass.

Three women and a man standing in a courtyard. Mrs. Ford feeding deer in Japan. An ocean liner in harbor in New York, Statue of Liberty visible in background. Skyline seen from ship's deck. Mrs. Ford standing next to an Asian man with a white beard. Busy street scene, possibly in China. A street performer in India wears a long robe, balances something on her head and dances. Open, square stone cistern, man looking down into it. View of ruins of Pompeii with Mt. Vesuvius in background. New York City traffic, including a long moving van. Empire State Building façade. Gravestones in historic graveyard on Wall Street. Harbor, zoo scenes.

World Cruise Route, 1933. Maps showing animated line moving along route through Mediterranean, then from Africa to India and to Asia.

View of person looking out of the top of a bell tower. Man, woman wearing yellow and purple costumes. They are on a broad, flat stage space outdoors on a sunny day. Both scamper off and a performance begins. A crowd of costumed people. Dancing in Mexican or Spanish style costumes. A woman in an open sedan chair is carried onstage. Person in white costume resembling a rabbit. Men and women singing, dancing. Elaborate theatrical performance.

Mrs Ford and another woman in the midst of a market. A sign in back reads "Garcia Crespo." Mrs. Ford or her companion walks with three local children. Detail of painting shows images of mounted soldiers engaged in battle. Façade of a large circular stone building. Mrs. Ford and tourist group walk through market; a boy wearing a cap tries to sell flowers to them. Flower market, vendors, Mrs. Ford and two women posing.

Hawaii. Ship sailing from the dock under the San Francisco Golden Gate bridge, with some views of the ship from shore. Surfing Waikiki, commercially-distributed short film inserted featuring close-ups of surfing performers on vintage surf boards. Another inserted film with close-ups of surfers on vintage surf boards. Another inserted film called Hula Dancers records dance performances as well as other tourist attractions, including plants. Tropical fish in aquarium, with species spearated in tanks that contain different species. Hula dancers performing in native costumes. Children, churches, public and commercial buildings, families and tourists reboarding boats while a shore band plays and the ship cruises into the sunset.