The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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Strike snaps of women & children in the park & these natives resently laughed when caught & were wonderfully good natured compared to tribes people or even Europeans who are often trauty under similar circumstances. Opposite the Imperial hotel I visited Obama, a colored slide maker & purchased a few slides. His stock was low but he said he had several hundred negatives from which slides were made. He has dent many hundreds to America. He said but his work is not equal to Enson's of Yokohama but the price is the same. While doing so at 11:30 A.M. a earth quake shock shook the house &