“Modern Conveniences” on Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands: The Japanese, who occupied the Solomon Islands until the U.S. Marines unceremoniously chased them out of a half-dozen of them in the start of the first U.S. offensive of the war, brought all the comforts of home with them. Here, a Leatherneck looks over a Japanese officers’ bathtub on Guadalcanal Island. The tub was left behind when the Japanese forces left in a hurry in the face of the Marines’ assault on the island, August 1942.

Ferrotyped prints are processed in such a way that they are shiny. The print has a sensitive surface, usually thinner, because it was put through a press while still wet.

Ferrotyped prints have a sensitive surface, usually shiny and thinner, because they are put through a press while still wet. Ferrotyping makes the surface of the photograph smoother. Light does not scatter as much on a smoother surface, so this increases contrast. That makes ferrotyped images better for press photography.

This object has the following keywords:

• Bathtubs
• Guadalcanal
• Japan
• Marines
• Officers
• Pacific Theater
• United States Marine Corps
• United States Marine Corps
• World War II

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