Mentholatum colored commercially-oriented pictorial map depicting the world with locations marked of ingredients used in the product, associated with various areas, and locations of factories across the globe. The map dates from 1935, based on a listing on the key identifying Wichita, Kansas as company headquarters. Relief shown pictorially and by spot heights. Shows agriculture, industry mining, recreational activities and wildlife. Includes list "The ingredients that make Mentholatum come from all over the world and Mentholatum is use all over the world". Includes historical events, which are labeled throughout, and lines indicating the routes taken by various explorers. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~292132~90063939:-Map-of-the-World--A-A--Hyde-Mentho?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&mi=104&trs=156&qvq=q:Formosa;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1#

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1935 #map depicting how "ingredients that make #Mentholatum come from all over the world," including " #camphor from trees in #Formosa."

#TaiwanArchives: McConaughy, US Ambassador to the Republic of China on #Taiwan, presents to VP Yen Chia-kan a lunar rock and a ROC flag that was aboard the Apollo 17 mission, as part of Nixon's 1973 Goodwill #moon rock program that distributed fragments of sample 70017 to 135 foreign heads of state.

#TaiwanArchives: A #Boeing727 fatally crashed into Linkou, about 8 miles west of #Taipei, while flying from Hong Kong on Feb. 16, 1968.

22, including 1 person on the ground, were killed.

Exactly 30 years later, China Airlines Flight 676, flying from Bali to Taipei, crashed in Taoyuan, killing 203.

#TaiwanArchives: Food, daily supplies, and #propaganda banners quoting Chiang Kai-shek's call to join his fight against Chinese Communists are sent to China via giant #balloons from the Taiwanese island fortress, #Kinmen, in 1966.

#TaiwanArchives: A video from the year 1969 showing the #peacock garden of #SunMoonLake, an aviary home to over a hundred extravagant emerald and rare white breeds of the peafowl.

#TaiwanArchives: French senators arrive in #Penghu (also known as the Pescadores) in 1969 to visit a memorial dedicated to the late commander of the Far East Squadron, Admiral Amédée Courbet. #France briefly occupied the Pescadores in 1885 during a siege on #Formosa as part of the Sino-French War.

#TaiwanArchives: The SHIN SHENG THEATER opens in #Taipei in 1956 as a six-story building crowned with a 1,600-seat #cinema and a "Miracle Mirror" CinemaScope screen. The first movie to be shown here was the American musical comedy "The Court Jester."

#TaiwanArchives: A #Taiwan #Christmas, 1958 edition.

X-mas decor and stationary are sold on #Taiwanese streets. Gift parcels and holiday letters flood postal offices. Plays and dinner dances. Choir performances and church gatherings.

#TaiwanArchives: Pingtung's Wandan Township is famous for a mud #volcano that intermittently flares up with sludge and flames. This 1969 video depicts a big eruption spewing mud over farmland, prompting a clean-up with rakes and ox. The natural phenomenon releases the build-up of subterranean gases.

#TaiwanArchives: In 1955, #Taipei welcomed the arrival of the bone relics of #Xuanzang (玄奘), a Tang dynasty monk who traveled to India to procure 657 Buddhist scriptures. His 17-year pilgrimage was immortalized in the Chinese classic "Journey to the West (西遊記)." The Śarīra, however, came from Japan.

#TaiwanArchives: The first #parachute wedding took place in #Taiwan in 1959, in which the betrothed couple leaped out of a military plane, a C-46 Commando decorated in #wedding colors. Over 5,000 people witnessed their kiss upon landing. They then had their union officiated at a Pingtung chapel.

#TaiwanArchives: In 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission of #Taiwan bought a 40-megawatt heavy water nuclear reactor from #Atomic Energy of #Canada Ltd. The purchase was proclaimed to be used for peaceful research purposes, but Taiwan secretly set about creating a stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium.

#TaiwanArchives: A 1949 video showcasing the 6 #Convair planes (空中行宮) purchased from America at US$520K each by the Central Air Transport Co. (CATC ,央航) to service #Taipei, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou. CATC later defected from the ROC to the PRC in what became known as the Two Airlines Incident (兩航投共).

#TaiwanArchives: A 1971 video extolling the benefits of raising Beltsville Small White #Turkeys (貝茨維爾小型白色火雞, Meleagris gallopavo) that were imported to #Taiwan from the United States by the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction.

#TaiwanArchives: This film is the earliest known surviving motion picture shot in and about #Taiwan.

Dating between 1917 and 1922, it documents the landscapes, architecture, customs, scenery, Indigenous peoples, and colonial traces of #Formosa during the era of Japanese rule.

youtu.be/PjA78Oneqj0

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15511690

#TaiwanArchives: 1943 Relief map of Formosa by the US Geological Survey for the War Dept

Note the romanization of Japanese names for Taiwanese sites, including Kukikaku for Cape Fugui (富貴角), the island's northernmost point, and Cape Garambi for Eluanbi (鵝鑾鼻), the southernmost point of Taiwan proper

https://hpcbristol.net/visual/DH-s033

#TaiwanArchives: 1890 slow-exposure photograph of #ducks swimming at Beiguo Garden (北郭園) in #Hsinchu. Considered one of the five top leisure gardens in #Taiwan during the Qing and Japanese colonial eras, it no longer exists today after a major portion was destroyed by American air raids during WWII.

#TaiwanArchives: A 1969 news segment promoting the economic benefits of raising #deer: antlers for medicine, hide for leather, and meat for consumption in exchange for "leaves, grass, fruit peels, and yam shoots." This footage was taken on a #Taiwanese deer farm in #Kaohsiung." (TFAI collection)

#TaiwanArchives: footage of a 1962 canine show at #Taichung, in which #dogs perform tricks like climbing ladders and jumping through fiery hoops.

#TaiwanArchives: Hollywood's #ElizabethTaylor made at least 3 visits to #Taiwan — as a Golden Horse award presenter, as a sightseer, and as a Michael Jackson fan. She was so popular that the crowd waiting for her outside Taipei's Lai Lai Dept Store in 1979 ended up obstructing traffic for 2 hours.

#TaiwanArchives: The President #Hotel (統一飯店) in #Taipei was a five-star establishment complete with a nightclub and 330 suites that had 35 years of fame before its closure in 1997. This footage was taken on Oct. 22, 1964, showing a predominantly western clientele and accessorized with young women.

Source: https://takao.kcg.gov.tw/public/ebook/257/online//pdf/full.pdf

From 1986: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Snow White were in attendance at the 75th national day celebrations of the Republic of China on #Taiwan in #Taipei. The #parade float was sponsored by Disney On Ice. #TaiwanArchives