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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Title: Shannon McCune papers
Creator:
McCune, Shannon, 1913-1993
Identifier/Call Number: 3013
Identifier/Call Number: 958
Physical Description:
8.2 Linear Feet
8 bankers boxes and 1 document box
Date (inclusive): 1868-1990
Date (bulk): 1937-1990
Abstract: Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was an American geographer born in Korea to Presbyterian missionaries. This collection comprises
primarily photographs, negatives, and slides as well as research, essays, and various publications relating to the geography
and cartography of Japan and Korea. It also contains some maps and realia.
Language of Material:
English
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The Shannon McCune papers have been organized into the following series: 1. Photographs; 2. Negatives and Slides; 3. Maps;
4. Realia; 5. Writings, research, and printed matter.
Original order was not evident aside from like-materials having been placed together. This arrangement was kept in tact. Intellectual
order was imposed by materials being arranged alphabetically, except for the printed materials which are chronological.
The Shannon McCune papers, 1868-1990 (bulk 1937-1990), consist of photographs, negatives, slides, maps, realia, and writings,
research, and printed matter created and collected by Shannon McCune during his life and career as a geographer and academic.
The majority of the material is comprised of photographs, negatives, and slides relating to the physical and human geography
of Asia, particularly Japan and Korea, as well as written essays, research, and publications pertaining to this subject.
The collection also includes personal photos, negatives and slides of trips to Hawaii, Canada, the U.K., and various parts
of the United States, transparency and paper maps of Asia, and realia in the form of rock samples, a field notebook, and a
cassette tape relating to the Saemaul Movement.
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was an American geographer born in Sonchon, Korea on April 6, 1913. His parents, George Shannon
McCune and Helen McAfee, were Presbyterian missionaries that had moved to Korea from the United States in 1905. McCune went
to school in Korea before moving back to the United States. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster
in 1935, his master's from Syracuse University and in 1939 he received a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University.
That same year McCune began teaching at Ohio State University. In 1946 he served with the Foreign Economic Administration
in India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China, where he won a Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1947 he became the chairman of
the geography department at Colgate University, remaining in that post until 1955, at which point he left to become provost
at the University of Massachusetts until 1961.
From 1961 to 1964, McCune left academia to serve as the first civilian civil administrator of Japan's Ryukyu Islands. In 1965
McCune returned to the United States where he was named president of the University of Vermont. He resigned from the position
in 1966 to perform a research trip to Asia for the university. In 1967 McCune was named the educational consultant to a United
Nations development mission in West Iran. He was subsequently appointed director of the American Geographical Society of New
York and remained as such until 1969. In 1970 McCune returned to Okinawa on a research grant from the National Science Foundation.
He taught as a professor of geography at the University of Florida in Gainesville until his retirement in 1979.
McCune was the author of a number of articles and monographs on Asian geography, as well as several books including "Korea's
Heritage, a Regional and Social Geography", "Korea: Land of Broken Calm", and "The Ryuku Islands"." He passed away on January
4, 1993 at the age of 79.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access of the physical files. Access of the select digitized materials
available through USC's Digital Library.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of the Korean
Heritage Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Korean Heritage Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/Folder# or Item name]. Shannon McCune papers, Collection no. 3013, Korean Heritage Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the estate of Shannon McCune.
Existence and Location of Copies
Some digitized materials can be found at Shannon McCune Collection within the Pacific Rim Archive through the USC Digital
Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cartography -- Korea (South) -- Archival resources
College teachers -- United States -- Archival resources
Geographers -- United States -- Archival resources
Human geography -- Korea -- Archival resources
Physical geography -- Asia -- Maps -- Archival resources
Physical geography -- Research -- Asia -- Archival resources
Saemaŭl movement -- Korea (South) -- Archival resources
Ryukyu Islands -- History -- 1945-1972 -- Archival resources
Essays
Lantern slides
Maps
Negatives (photographic)
photographic film (photographic materials)
Publications
Realia
Slides (photographs)
American Geographical Society of New York -- Archives
McCune, Shannon, 1913-1993 -- Archives
McCune, George Shannon -- Archives