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Title: Claude M. Adams Photographs
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0130
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1945 - 1952
Abstract: The collection consists of photographs taken by or given to Claude M. Adams while he worked in Japan for the Supreme Commander
for the Allied Powers (SCAP), Natural Resources Section, Fisheries Division from 1945-1951.
Creator:
Adams, Claude M.
Claude M. Adams Photographs, SMC 0130. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of 291 photographs taken by or given to Claude M. Adams while he worked in Japan for SCAP, Natural
Resources Section, Fisheries Division from 1945-1951. The photographs document the construction and refurbishment of whaling
ships, whaling expeditions, and villagers engaged in diving, seaweed-gathering, canning, and other aspects of coastal life
in post-World War II Japan. Adams visited the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombings and the collection
contains several photographs of the destruction. It also includes a small number of postcards and ephemera from his travels.
Acquired, 2011.
Claude M. Adams (1907-1974) was a cannery inspector in San Pedro and San Francisco, California before receiving an Army commission
with the rank of Captain during World War II. After basic training, he was sent to Stanford University and the Monterey Language
School, where he learned Japanese. He went to Japan in October 1945 to work for Lt Col Hubert G. Schenck in SCAP's Natural
Resources Section, Fisheries Division, to support redevelopment of the post-war Japanese fishing and whaling industries. Capt
Adams was relieved from active duty in February 1947 and continued on in his work in Japan as a civilian government employee
until 1951.
SIO ARCHIVES COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication rights to photographs taken by Adams are held by the Regents of the University of California; rights to other
images reside with the creator of the image.
A selection of photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be viewed through links in the container list,
or by clicking the link below.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Fisheries--Japan--Photographs
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--Photographs
Japan--Photographs
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--Photographs
Whaling ships--Japan--Photographs