Register of the Richard C. Wilson papers

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Title: Richard C. Wilson papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1972
Collection Number: 72057
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 6 card file boxes, 4 envelopes (2.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, American Red Cross reports, card files on individuals, club membership lists, and printed matter, relating to the personal experiences of former residents of the Far East, as reported in the monthly newsletter, The Far Easterner; and to Japanese internment camps, 1941-1942
Creator: American National Red Cross
Creator: Wilson, Richard C., 1902-1972

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Richard C. Wilson Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1902, September 25 Born, Waverly, Kansas
1922-1924 Reporter, Kansas City Star
1924-1929 United Press Bureau Chief, Oklahoma City, Lincoln, and Dallas
1929-1932 United Press Bureau Chief, Mexico City
1932-1934 United Press Hollywood feature writer and subsequently assigned to San Francisco as cable editor to handle news of Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1934-1936 United Press Bureau Chief, Honolulu
1936-1941 United Press Manager for Southeast Asia, Manila
1941-1942 Interned in Japanese internment camp
1942 Coordinator of U.S. propaganda program in Mexico, U.S. State Department
1944-1948 Public Relations Adviser, C.V. Starr and Co.
1948-1953 Advertising Director, Manila Chronicle
1953-1972 Editor, Far Easterner
1972 Died

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
Journalists
World War, 1939-1945 -- East Asia
East Asia -- Emigration and immigration

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1954-1970

 

Far Easterner

box 1

Publication and subscriptions

box 1

Advertising

box 1

Fan mail

box 1

Mills, Hal P.

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

box 1

Speeches

 

Ideas for articles

 

SUBJECT FILE

box 1

Africa

box 2

Diary of Syd Skelton during travels in China and the Far East 1941 October-December

 

Far East Association, Salisbury, Rhodesia

 

Far Eastern clubs in the Philippines, membership lists

 

Far Eastern clubs in the United States, membership lists

 

China Society of America

 

China Tiffin Clubs

 

Far East Society

 

General Ward and General Chennault American Legion Post No. 1 (China), operating in exile

 

Old China Hands

 

Philippine clubs

 

Miscellaneous

 

Far Easterner, clippings

 

Far Easterners, obituaries and clippings about important persons who have had significant experience in the Far East

box 3

Japanese internment camps, American Red Cross reports on repatriation of internees, medical conditions and food rations at camps, and relief of internees 1942

 

Philippines, historical notes

 

War Years at Shanghai, by Arch Carey. Correspondence about sale of book

 

MISCELLANEOUS

box 3

Biographical material

 

Miscellaneous issues of Chit Chat, an English language periodical published in Seattle, Washington, for Americans with Far East experience

 

Maskee: A Shanghai Sketchbook, a hand painted edition, copy no. 113

 

Miscellaneous clippings

 

Mementos

 

CARD FILE

 

Card index of over 4,000 people who have had experiences in Far East (gives names, addresses, and biographical notes)

box 4

A-C

box 5

D-G

box 6

H-L

box 7

M-R

box 8

S-Z

box 9

Card index of subscribers to the Far Easterner