Buildings and people in Taipei, Taiwan. The Presidential Office Building (No.122, Sec. 1, Chongqing South Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan) along Ketagalan Boulevard in Zhongzheng District with vehicular traffic in the foreground. Children play around a fountain and traffic on street in the background. Chinese signs on shops along Chung Hwa Road.
Taiwan during Japanese colonial administration in World War 2. View of the main hall of the Bangka Lungshan Temple or Longshan Temple (No. 211, Guangzhou Street, Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10853), known as the Ryuzan temple during the Japanese colonial period, in Taipei. Dragons and human sculptures adorn the architecture of the Chinese folk religious shrine. Melons and lychees on sale at a fruit shop. A man sells Chinese herbal medicine near the temple. Worshipers tossing joss sticks and papers in the temple. A woman cooks street food. An old man stands at a shop. A man beating a drum while selling traditional Taiwanese items. A roof of the shrine with elaborate folk sculptures. Taiwanese people shopping in a market street. A close view of the Taiwanese people. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
A film shows the historical places in Taiwan, during Japanese colonial administration. Buildings of Taipei. Bank of Taiwan building. Traffic in front of the building. A view of the building. The building of Ministry of Transportation and Commerce. The Legislature building. The Town Hall building. The Health Shrine. A bell hanged on a rope inside the shrine. The Botanical Garden. Variety of plants grown in the garden. A historical building.
American Red Cross in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. American Red Cross dispensary in compound of U.S. Taiwan Defense Command in Taipei. Red Cross nurse comes out of the building. She enters Post Exchange and shops inside. She pays cash at the counter. She gets into a pedicab and drives off. She enters a hospital in the west compound and talks to a sick young boy and then a group of sick soldiers. She gives them cigarettes. A serviceman lying in bed pays for the cigarettes.
Taiwanese people attend a Chinese New Year festival parade in Taipei, Formosa (present day Taipei, Taiwan) during Japanese colonial rule in World War II. A busy street. Crowds convene on the sidewalk to watch a festival. A Japanese ice cream shop behind crowds. A group of men perform a serpentine-like dragon dance. A man performs acrobatics in front of a group performing a lion dance. Man performs lion dance. A boy pushes an artillery gun. A man with a papier-mâché donkey costume. Signs and banners depicting Chinese products such as Tiger Balm ointment. Chinese women dressed in elaborate traditional costumes on top of floats. Men carry an intricate model of a pagoda. A float of a symbolic god. People performing dance in the parade. The Taiwanese people watch the parade. A policeman stands in the foreground. People on the streets and decorative floats in the parade.
American Red Cross in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. On grounds of the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command facility, a view of the Dispensary building. An officer enters the dispensary. James O' Donnell, Taiwan Base Command Field Director and a Red Cross Gray Lady leave the dispensary. They walk past a large sign that reads 'Taiwan Base Command' and has smaller signs on it pointing to various buildings and facilities on the base.