My name is Paul Barclay, I am an associate professor of history at a small college in Pennsylvania, USA. I am not very far from New York city. My area is Japanese colonialism, and I study the history of Japanese-Aborigine contacts, cultural exchange, and political economy. I found this forum a week ago, and everything I've read is interesting and useful!

One of my projects currently is building a website of 340 Taiwan photographs left by the late US Consul to Taiwan Gerald Warner, whose wife Rella and daughter Elizabeth have contributed to the Yang-Grevot collection. Some friend of the family's, I suppose, left my college a shoebox of Warner's photographs and postcards; many of the photos appear to be rare or unique, and of course many I have seen in books, ethnographies, etc. We have 69 of these photos posted, most of them of Indigenous peoples. You are welcome to take a look, and send me comments, corrections, or additional information at barclayp@lafayette.edu

We will soon have the other 241 images posted; we are having some trouble with Chinese characters in our software, but these will be repaired soon.

Here is my homepage, it links to the Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection; my CV contains links to a number of PDF format articles about Taiwan/Formosan Aborigines/Indigenous Peoples and the Japanese:

http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~barclayp/

Now for my question: is there a way to contact Elizabeth Warner-Gontard? I think she would like the website, and I would like to learn anything I can about Gerald Warner and his family, or his diplomatic career.

PS: I will be in Taipei and around the island from Dec. 7th through Dec. 22, to give a paper at Sinica and then look around at some archives, museums, and visit friends.

Thanks for your hard and important work of moderating this forum!

best regards to all,
Paul

Hello Paul
Welcome on the forum !
Fascinating pictures you have collected there !
I'll be glad to share my impression with you.
I sent you an email.
Best,
Gehaobo