{"value"=>"<p>The Navy Photography series includes several individual portraits and group portraits of sailors and officers who served with Hansen on Manus Island, as well as views of the base, the camp facilities, construction projects, and the day-to-day life of military personnel. Many of these images were done as snapshots. Also depicted are views of the native islanders, flooding on the base possibly caused by a storm, and portraits of Hansen as sailor and photographer.</p> <p>Included here are views of African American sailors, both performing their daily duties and during their leisure time. Depicted are African American construction crews, stevedores, mess hall staff, and security police; living quarters and shower facilities; a hospital tent, showing only white patients, being entertained by a white musical troupe; and a base barber shop showing Black and white customers sitting on segregated sides of the shop.</p> <p>A group of images depict a Sunday church service that is mostly attended by Black troops - the only white people, besides the Chaplain, appear to be Naval officers seated in a group by the front. Group portraits of airmen, an unidentified ship's crew, and Naval officers are depicted as exclusively white. While Black and white Naval personnel are sometimes depicted together, most often white officers are shown supervising Black seamen.</p> <p>The images of Hansen himself, most likely taken by one of his photography assistants, show him around the base with other sailors and officers; posing with native islanders; out taking pictures with his camera; posing in combat uniform; and as a member of the 108th Battalion Band. Also shown are images of a white Naval photographer, either Hansen's commander or one of his assistants, views of Hansen's darkroom, and photographs of Hansen's Navy identification card and discharge paper. The series also contains formal portraits of soldiers and sailors, as well as signed photographs from Hansen's Navy friends; a picture of Hansen's brother Aubrey when he was attending the Tuskeegee Flight School; and images of naval bases in California and Portsmouth, Virginia, including depictions of Black troops, which may not have been taken by Hansen.</p>"}