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A scrapbook compiled by a young U.S. Marine radio operator stationed in Shanghai, China from 1936-1939 with the Fourth Regiment, against the backdrop of battles and shooting incidents at the outset of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The piece is festooned with 100’s of clippings, original carbons of radio transmissions, cables, typed letters signed, documents, photos, menus, directories, programs, a Shanghai city map, comic strips, Walla Walla US Marines Newsweekly covers, and even some original poetry by Kelly and original pen & ink artwork, and pencil sketches, all tipped-in. 200 pp (unpaginated).], on thin newsprint paper stock, w/ over 1000 tipped-in pieces of ephemera, including 4 photos sized from 2 x 3 in. to 8 x 10 in., multiple carbon copies of original radio cablegrams and telexes, TLS on letterheads, typescripts, magazine covers, menus, directories, football game programs, 1 large folding YMCA map of Shanghai, canceled stamp letters, Christmas cards, business cards, souvenirs, matchbox covers, beer labels, and even original artwork pieces sized from 6 x 8 up to 8 x 10 in., several leaves w/ manuscript pencil or ink annotations. This noteworthy scrapbook provides an essential historic record of the tumultuous final years of the 4th Regiment “China Marines” against the backdrop of the increasing tensions and battles between Chinese and Japanese forces in Shanghai in the late 1930’s. Kelly (1917-1991) was a talented young US Marine Corps radio operator who has managed to preserve many of the original radio dispatches, and cablegrams surrounding the fast devolving situation in Shanghai in 1937-1939. The clippings from the Shanghai Times, and China Times are filled with notices of artillery duels and battle, with illustrations showing the overwhelming struggle by the 4th Regiment to preserve American interests in the International Zone. [From dealer description]

Oblong leather-bound folio album (with string-tie binding). The album consists of 244 photographs (all tipped in) of various sizes and origins, but most of the photographs (at least 200) were taken by Williams or his colleagues during their time stationed in Shanghai. Photographs show Marines in the city, natives therein, street scenes, rural scenes, views in temples, Marines marching and in casual situations. Also contains nine photographs captioned in the photos (commercial photos) documenting public beheadings, captured rebels, police action; five hand-colored landscape views; and 17 panoramic views of countryside, the Great Wall, temples, and more. Some captions written in ink.

Collection of 25 black and white phiotographs, supplied by MacTavish & Co. of Shanghai, as advertising of various Shanghai tradesmen hoping to do business with US Marines stationed in Shanghai. Most photos are of the shop sign haning from the building, some with street scenes, some with amusing signs "Foam Water" & "No Post Boill." Sun Tuck Tai was a "stone cutter and mason, tombstone and Monu Ment Maked" and here's a novel way to fund military expenditure "Shing Foo, Chinese Military Government Fun Raising Lottery." The sign for "King Cheng Kee Ladies Tailor" has beneath it a poster for a performance at the Lyceum Theatre Monday May 1st. The Lyceum Theatre was built in the 1930s, dating these cards to either 1933 of 1939, the only years that May 1st fell on a Monday. The US Marines stationed in China during this period were "also known as "North China Marines" originally referred to...Marines, of the 4th Marine Regiment, who were stationed in Shanghai, China from 1927 to 1941 to protect American citizens and property in the Shanghai International Settlement, during the Chinese Revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War." [Wikipedia] according to VirtualShanghai.net, MacTavish & Co. were "Publisher-Printer (possibly photographer) in Shanghai. Pictures cover the 1900-1920s period. Listed for the 1914-1920 period in the Hong Kong List." [From dealer description]

An album of photos that belonged to an [unidentified] US Marine based in Shanghai in the 1930s. An assemblage of 239 personal photos, plus two larger-format posed group photos of his military unit in uniform and at a formal dinner, together with 68 commercial photos collected at the time around Shanghai, all mounted (removably) at a later date in a Japanese-style album. The personal photos include soldiers at leisure in their barracks, posing with weapons during training, and wearing gas masks for some sort of drill, one with a Military Police Company A, 4th Marines sign dated 1936 in pen on the back, four shots of a small baseball game, and many with friends or family members taken at various locales around the city or on trips to the countryside, including at a Christian church. There are about four pages of photos from a trip upriver, which included a visit to a monument to Frederick Townsend Ward placed by the American Legion. We can see examples of the tense situation in Shanghai at the time, such as people posing next to barbed wire barriers and a sign from 1932 declaring a state of emergency in both English and Chinese. Nine of the photos are from a trip to Guam, depicting soldiers and some sort of a military review in front of an imposing building (the site identifiable because there is a “Guam” banner visible with a magnifying glass)." Also contains some graphic images of people tortured and/or killed. [Descriptive information provided by dealer // JAD2015/5/11]