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Erik Lewis photographic slides collection of South Korea, 1983.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 340
Abstract
Photographs taken mostly in Cheju-do, South Korea. Some of market in Seoul. Images of people, mostly women: Buddhist nun"kissing girls", women sea divers, fisher women, and peasant women. Also includes images of natural rock formations and various country and market scenes.
Dates:
1983
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Edmund Heller diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents
The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates:
October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Korea
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 200
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Andrews Korean Whaling Expedition, 1912. Roy Chapman Andrews, assistant curator in the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, went to Korea in 1912 to collect various species of whales. Although he took a lot of motion picture footage, this little film is all that remains. Shown at first are Keijo (now Seoul), then under Japanese rule and called Chosen, and its surrounding hills, the South Gate (for which the city was named), trolleys, and bullock carts. Koreans in...
Dates:
1912
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
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