Guide to the Leo L. Stanley Diaries SC0070

Box 1, Volume 1

"The Sixth Voyage of the Sachem" July 8 - Aug. 1, 1918

Scope and Contents note

Round trip cruise from San Francisco to Honolulu, on which Dr. Stanley is ship's surgeon.

Box 1, Volume 2

"To Ellis Island and Back" Sept. 1920

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Round trip by railroad from San Francisco to Ellis Island, NY. Dr. Stanley serves as physician for undesirable aliens, either criminal, insane, or guilty of illegal entry into the United States, who are being brought by train to New York to be deported to their native countries.

Box 1, Volume 3

"Trot, Trot, Trot to Boston" May 21-Apr 11, 1921

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley serves as physician for undesirable aliens, either criminal, insane, or guilty of illegal entry into the United States, who are being brought by train to New York to be deported to their native countries. This volume includes an extra trip to Boston.

Box 1, Volume 4

"Five Weeks Leave" 1922

Scope and Contents note

Deportation train, San Francisco to New York. Dr. Stanley then attended meeting of the association for the Study of Internal Secretions in St. Louis.

South American Cruise 1928

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley was the ship's doctor on the S.S. City of Los Angeles cruise around South America.

Box 1, Volume 5

(South American Cruise I) Oct. 4-24, 1928

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Preparation for voyage; departure; itinerary includes Callao and Lima, Peru; Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile.

Box 1, Volume 6

(South American Cruise II) Oct. 25 - Nov. 10, 1928

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Itinerary includes Straits of Magellan; Punta Arenas; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Santos and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Box 1, Volume 7

(South American Cruise III) Nov. 11 - Dec. 6, 1928

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Itinerary includes Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Port of Spain, Trinidad, BWI; La Guayra and Caracas, Venezuela; Panama Canal Zone; Salvador; Guatemala; Mazetlan, Mexico.

All Pacific Cruise 1929

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley was the ship's doctor on the S.S. Malolo.

Box 1, Volume 8

Japan (v. I) Jan. 14-Oct. 3, 1929

Scope and Contents note

This volume covers his departure.

Box 1, Volume 9

Japan (v. II), Oct. 4-12, 1929

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Itinerary includes Yokohama, Tokyo, Kobe, Nara, Miyajima.

Box 1, Volume 10

China (v. III), Oct. 14-22, 1929

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Itinerary includes Chinwangtao, Peiping, Great Wall, Shanghaikuan.

Box 1, Volume 11

Hong Kong, Manila, Saigon (v. IV), Oct. 23 - Nov. 2, 1929

Scope and Contents note

Itinerary includes Hong Kong, Kowloon, Canton, Manila, Saigon.

Box 2, Volume 12

Siam, Singapore, Java (v. V), Nov. 3-11, 1929

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Itinerary includes Bangkok; Singapore; Jahore; Batavia, Java; Buitenzorg, Java; Tanjong Priok.

Box 2, Volume 13

Australia (v. VI), Nov. 12-28, 1929

Scope and Contents note

Itinerary includes Rottnest Island, Fremantle, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Katoomba.

Box 2, Volume 14

New Zealand, Fijis, Samoa, Hawaii (v. VII), Nov. 29-Dec. 15, 1929

Scope and Contents note

Itinerary includes Auckland; Suva, Fijis; Pago Pago, Samoa; Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii.

North Cape Russia Cruise 1931

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley was a passenger on the S. S. Carinthia.

Box 2, Volume 15

North Cape Russia Cruise (v. I), June 26-July 8, 1931

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Covers his arrival in New York by train and stop at Reykjavik, Iceland.

Box 2, Volume 16

North Cape Russia Cruise (v. II), July 9-18, 1931

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Itinerary includes Hammerfest, Lyngen,Trondhjem, and Bergen in Norway.

Box 2, Volume 17

North Cape Russia Cruise (v. III), July 19-Aug. 1, 1931

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Itinerary includes Oslo, Visby, Gottland, Stockholm. At Stockholm, Doctor Stanley discontinued the cruise and stayed in Stockholm with a sick passenger, his friend, Mrs. Aubrey Montgomery, known as 'Lady Bob," whom he had known on other cruises. This volume also contains her will. Returns via the Suecia and the S. S. Mauretania to New York, then by train to San Francisco.

Around the World 1934

Scope and Contents note

On this trip Dr. Stanley served as physician for deportees on a train from San Francisco to New York, continuing as a passenger to Russia to study hospitals and prisons there. Included are photographs of and comments on the institutions he visited.

Box 2, Volume 18

Across America (v. I), Apr. 20-May 8, 1934

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San Francisco to New York on deportation train; from New York on the President Roosevelt, bound for le Havre.

Box 2, Volume 19

France, Germany (v. II), May 9-18, 1934

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Itinerary includes Berlin and Potsdam; airplane from Berlin to Leningrad.

Box 3, Volume [V. 20]

Russia/Siberia (v. III), May 19-30, 1934

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Leningrad and Moscow. Dr. Stanley visits and describes a penal colony outside Moscow and a childcare center in Leningrad for working mothers, also a clinic for working mothers. The penal colony is an experimental commune for prisoners selected from other penitentiaries. Train across Siberia to Vologda, Omsk, Zima, Baikal; visits hospitals and prisons. Also includes excerpts from the "Guide Book to the Soviet Union."

Box 3, Volume [21]

Manchoukuo (v. IV), May 31-June 3, 1934

Scope and Contents note

Chinese Eastern Railway to Tsitsihar, Anda, Harbin, Hsinking, Mukden in Manchuria and Shanhaikuan in China.

General note

[There is no volume 22.]

Box 3, Volume 23

China (v. V), June 4-8, 1934

Scope and Contents note

Itinerary includes Peiping, Tientsin, Nanking, Shanghai. Boards the M.S. Chichibu Maru.

Box 3, Volume 24

Japan, Hawaii (v. VI), June 9-22, 1934

Scope and Contents note

On M.S. Chichibu Maru; itinerary includes Kobe, Kyoto, Yokohama, Pearl Harbor, San Francisco. Visits Oahu Prison and Palama Settlement in Hawaii.

Mediterranean Cruise 1935

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley serves as physician on a deportation train to New York, then goes as a passenger to the Mediterranean on the S. S. Statendam.

Box 3, Volume 25

Mediterranean Cruise (v. I), Jan. 28-Feb. 16, 1935

Scope and Contents note

Chapters 1-5. Deportation train leaves San Francisco for New York. Includes case histories of passengers. Itinerary includes Los Angeles, Yuma, El Paso, San Antonia, Houston.

Chapters 6-13. S. S. Statendam leaves NY. Contains letter and poem from a prisoner at San Quentin, the famous J. P. "Bluebeard" Watson, who murdered 15 women. Itinerary includes on the Atlantic, at sea, Funchal, Madeira, Gibraltar, La Linea.

Box 3, Volume 26

Mediterranean Cruise (v. II), Feb. 17-26, 1935

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Chapters 14-21. Itinerary includes Cadiz - Seville, Tangier - Malaga, Algiers, Palma, Mallorca, Cannes, Malta, coast and ancient Apollonia viewed from Statendam.

Box 3, Volume 27

Mediterranean Cruise (v. III), Feb. 27-Mar. 8, 1935

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Chapters 22-31. Itinerary includes Egypt, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Beirut, Syria.

Box 3, Volume 28

Mediterranean Cruise (v. IV), Mar. 9 - 17, 1935

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Chapters 32-40. Itinerary includes Rhodes, Dardanelles, Istanbul, Bosporus, Black Sea, Athens, Corfu, Jugoslavia, Venice.

Box 3, Volume 29

Mediterranean Cruise (v. V), Mar. 19-29, 1935

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Chapters 41-47. Itinerary includes Sicily, Messina, Taormina, Naples, Pompei, Mt. Vesuvius, Island of Elba, Monte Carlo, Monaco, The Riviera, Nice; and in Holland, Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Aalsmeer, Amsterdam, Edam, Volendam, Zuyder Zee, Utrech.

Around the World on a Dollar 1936

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley was ship's doctor on the S. S. President Harrison of the Dollar Steamship Lines.

Box 4, Volume 30

Around the World on a Dollar (v. I), Oct. 8 - Nov. 8, 1936

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Summary of previous trips. Preparation and departure. Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Box 4, Volume 31

Around the World on a Dollar (v. II), Nov. 9-29, 1936

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Itinerary includes Manila, Singapore, Island of Penang, Ceylon, Bombay.

Box 4, Volume 32

Around the World on a Dollar (v. III), Dec. 5, 1936-Jan. 12, 1937

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Itinerary includes Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Cairo, Alexandria (by train), Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, Gibraltar, New York. Travel to Flint, Michigan by train, San Francisco by car.

Mixing in Mexico 1937

Scope and Contents note

Dr. Stanley took a train trip to Guadalajara for the meeting of Pacific Association of Railway Surgeons, October 8-9, 1937, and then a pack trip into the countryside.

Box 4, Volume 33

Mixing in Mexico (v. I), June - Oct. 11, 1937

Scope and Contents note

Diary includes correspondence regarding the meeting and covers the train to Guadalajara and pack trip to Juanacatlan, San Juan.

Box 4, Volume 34

Mixing in Mexico (v. II), Oct. 12-19, 1937

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Itinerary includes Jocotpec, San Luis Soyatlan, Tuscueca, Chapala, Tepic, Culiacan, Nogales, and back.

American President Lines Cruises 1959-1963

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Volumes 35-1 through 36-2 are paperbound travel logs of cruises to the Orient on the American President Lines on which Dr. Stanley served as ship's doctor. In almost all of these cruises, the itinerary was: San Francisco, Honolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe, Yokohama and/or Kowloon, Honolulu, San Francisco.

Box 5, Volume 35-1

S. S. President Wilson, April 5 - May 19, 1959

Box 5, Volume 35-2

S. S. President Wilson, Sept. 4 -Nov. 15, 1959

Box 5, Volume 35-3

S. S. President Hoover, Nov. 7 -Dec. 19, 1961

Box 5, Volume 35-4

S. S. President Wilson, Apr. 24 -June 3, 1961

Box 5, Volume 35-5

S. S. President Hoover, June 15 -July 29, 1961

Box 5, Volume 35-6

S. S. President Hoover (includes a stop in Okinawa), Aug. 29 - Oct. 9, 1962

Box 5, Volume V. 35-7

S. S. President Cleveland, Oct. 28 - Dec. 1962

Box 6, Volume 36-1

S. S. President Cleveland, May - June, 1963

Box 6, Volume 36-2

S. S. President Roosevelt, Oct. 1 - Nov. 11, 1963

Miscellaneous Diaries 1920-1965

Box 6, Volume 36-3

Medical Articles by Stanley, 1920-1930

Box 6, Volume 36-4

Medical Articles by Stanley, 1930-1940

Box 6, Volume 36-5

Miscellaneous articles by Stanley from The Centaur, 1941-1960

Box 6, Volume 36-6

Newspaper articles by Stanley in the San Miguel Banner, Sept. - Oct. 1965

Box 6, Volume 36-7

Maps, correspondence, ship paraphernalia, and newspaper articles about and/or by Stanley