Guide to Terminology and Conventions
FIELDS:
Title: this field contains bracketed 4-digit numbers (i.e. [0018]) to indicate the number attached to each image in the physical collection housed at Skillman Library Special Collections. The image # is used in the body of description fields to cross-reference other images in the collection, and for contributors to identify images they wish to submit information about. The image # is NOT the numeral followed by a period to the left of the thumbnail on the browsing page. These other numerals, which are also next to the check-boxes, change each time a user performs a sorting function or uses the "compare" feature. Thus, only the image #, the 4-digit number in square brackets, is permanently attached to a particular image.
Subject Headings: the four-digit numerals in parenthesis to the right of each hyperlinked subject heading are Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) subject codes. These are developed, updated, and maintained in the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University http://www.yale.edu/hraf.
Description: a combination of quoted texts from 1930s Japanese sources, English translations of Japanese captions on the images themselves, and current assessments of the objects, images, and rhetoric displayed in the pictures. Quotations from captions on the items themselves are clearly marked. Other quoted material is attributed with internal citations, which are listed in the bibliography. The descriptions are compiled and edited by Paul D. Barclay at Lafayette College from written documents and from communication with experts in Taiwan, Japan, and other countries.
Text on Front: printed information on the faces of postcards. These have been reproduced (misspellings and idiosyncratic orthography/spellings included) as faithfully as possible. The editor and contributors make no claims for the ethnographic or historical accuracy of these quoted remarks. They contain much factual information, but primarily provide researchers with a historical record of Japanese views of Taiwan current in the 1930s.
Text on Back: printed and hand-written information on the backs of postcards and photographs. The editor and contributors make no claims for the ethnographic or historical accuracy of these remarks. They are intended to reflect the viewpoints of the authors and their era.
Contributor: names of experts who have provided content, criticisms, and language assistance for a particular image.
Citation: provides a list, in descending chronological order, of publications that use the exact same image. Published images of the same or similar scenes, people, or objects, but shot from different angles at different times, ARE NOT included in this field. We are counting on users to alert the editor if these images appear in other publications, so we may create a "life history" of each image. Please send your identifications with citation information to barclayp@lafayette.edu and specify how you would like your name to appear in the contributor field.
ETHNONYMS:
There are several alternative romanized spellings for Taiwanese ethnic groups. Based on the general editor's judgment, the following are the most generally used spellings, and are adopted for this website:
Atayal, Bunun, Saisiat, Sao, Tsuo, Paiwan, Ami, Rukai, Puyuma, and Yami. Spellings provided on the artifacts themselves have been left as they appear on the postcards and photographs.
ROMANIZED CHINESE WORDS:
The Pinyin system of romanization is used on this website because it is an international standard; its use for Taiwanese place-names is not intended to carry any political message. Taiwanese personal names are romanized according to the requests of individual consultants or the commonly published names of authors.
CONTRIBUTORS:
If you have information about an image in this collection, either to identify its contents, report a sighting or citing in another printed version, or to suggest a revision to an entry, please consider collaborating on this project. Communications in Chinese, Japanese, or English are welcome. Please include your name, email address, title/position, and an image # or image numbers to identify the images to which you refer. The editor will do his best to verify as much of the submitted information as possible, realizing that many contributors will far exceed him in expertise and authority.
CITATION FORMATS:
Barclay, Paul D., ed. The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection. Easton, PA: Lafayette College, 2008. http://imago.lafayette.edu/warner/ ([Date Accessed]), image [image #].
Paul D. Barclay, ed., The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection(Easton, PA: Lafayette College, 2008), http://imago.lafayette.edu/warner/ ([Date Accessed]), image [image #].