Dorothy's WWII Album

A large number of photos, newspaper and magazine clippings, and documents, were stored loose between two pages of the scrapbook. I have not tried to sort the scrapbook into chronological order.  Wbat you get in this blog is a series of pictures and other items in the order as they exist today within the spines of the scrapbook. Empty photo mounting corners on other pages showed where some of the photos had been.

Wikipedia article on the SS Patrick Henry Baltimore Sun's photo gallery of Liberty Ship SS Patrick Henry The entire copy of this issue of the Post was included in the scrapbook but the copyright laws (at least as I understand them) prevent me from posting the whole thing. The following map could be folded into a mailer.

I've "photoscaped" (free photo editor) some of these documents, brightening them and increasing the contrast.  I decided to make them easier to read rather than showing them in their discolored and faded current condition.  In some cases my tinkering did not improve the readability of the images, and in those cases I left them alone. In the center of the album was a section of magazines and documents, not fastened into the album. When folded into quarters, this makes a Christmas card

Some of these photos are obviously from occupied Japan but I can't guarantee that all of them are. The following paper and photos were all together in a small flat brown paper bag. I assume these were a souvenir set.  Not every photo in the list is present and although I tried to get them in order, just assume that they are not.