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Panniell (York) photograph album
MS.M.062
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: York Panniell photograph album
Creator:
Panneill, York
Identifier/Call Number: MS.M.062
Physical Description:
0.8 Linear Feet
(1 flat box)
40 pages with 65 sepia and black and white photographs.
Oblong quarto, measuring 9"x12".
Date (inclusive): 1946-1947
Abstract: A photo album created by Private York
Panniell (ca. 1925-1987) while serving in Japan during the U.S. Occupation between 1946 and
1947.
Condition Description: Album
condition is good, with worn edges, some tears and rubbing. Pages, photographs and other
contents are fine, with brittle paper, light soiling and cellotape.
Language of Material:
English .
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. It is the responsibility of the
researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her
heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright. For
information on use, copyright, and attribution, please visit:
http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html
York Panniell photograph album. MS.M.062. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
Purchased from Between the Covers, Inc.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
A photo album created by Private York Panniell (ca. 1925-1987) while serving in Japan
during the U.S. Occupation between 1946 and 1947. Includes photographs of himself, his
fellow service members in the all-African American 933rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion,
Japanese soldiers and civilians and local scenery. Also includes Japanese postcards and
currency, as well as portraits of Japanese celebrities. The album also contains two uniform
patches, a list entitled "My favorite songs while I was in Japan," a love poem entitled "The
Vision" and a cloth painting of an unidentified woman (possibly a souvenir from
Yokohama).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1935-1945 -- Photographs
African American soldiers
World War, 1939-1945--Japan