Fields, Kenneth: [Ethiopia]:

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[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DOCUMENTING AMERICAN SOLIDER KENNETH FIELDS DURING HIS SERVICE IN ETHIOPIA]. Extensively-annotated photograph album covering Kenneth Fields' life and adventures in and around Harar, Ethiopia during his military service there in the late 1960s. Almost all of the photos in the album are accompanied by substantial captions from Fields on mounted index cards. Fields put this together as a travelogue, starting with three postcards home to his wife, Irma, from each of his layovers on the way to Addis Ababa (Rome, Athens, and Cairo). He arrived in Harar on July 23, 1967, and the first photo is an image of the house he and MSgt. Seery share, "rented for us by the American Embassy." Then follow photos of their pet baboons Cheesy and Ishy, who is "a mess...loves beer & cigarettes better than anything." They also have a donkey, Thelma, and a watch dog, Spot. He then provides a photo tour of the house and a summary of his expenses: for a guard ("sabanya"), a cook (Tinish), and maid (Tinish's daughter, Alllimus), his share is $17 a month.Fields spent a significant time hunting - there are several images of him with other soldiers on expeditions, posing with gazelles and kudus. One photo includes "our helper Tashoma...a little 15 or 16 year old kid the group has kinda adopted. He helps out around the house & goes to the field with us...the boys are trying to get him into Haille Sallaisie [sic] University." There are also images of a small zoo nearby, a "typical Ethiopian

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