Guide to the York Panniell photograph album MS.M.062

Finding aid prepared by Ree Clark, 2017; inventory added by Zoe MacLeod, 2020
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
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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 .

Access

The collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

York Panniell photograph album. MS.M.062. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

Acquisition Information

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

box 1

Photograph album 1946-1947