Finding aid for the Shannon McCune papers 3013

Sarah Cassone

USC Libraries East Asian Library

2018 March

Doheny Memorial Library

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-1825

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/east-asian-library

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 .

Organization

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Biographical note

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.

Conditions Governing Access

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.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Preferred Citation

[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

Photographs

Box 1, Folder 6

Countryside photos undated

Box 1, Folder 7

Hong Kong rurals undated

Box 1, Folder 8

Kokai undated

Box 6, Folder 2

[Unknown Asian drawing from France] undated

Box 1, Item 1

Korea photographs [large scrapbook] 1938

Box 2, Item 2

[Korea rural scene] circa 1938

Box 2, Item 1

[Korea rural scenes (photo album, missing pictures)] undated

Box 1, Box 5

Korean postcards (scanned) undated

Box 1, Box 4

Loose photos of Korea (scanned) undated

Box 1, Folder 9

Manchura and Harbin undated

Box 1, Folder 11

[Pusan (not scanned)] undated

Box 1, Folder 10

Pusan photos and postcards 1958

Box 1, Folder 12

[Pyengyeng, Korea photos and postcards] 1940

Box 1, Folder 14

Sunchan, Korean rural scene 1938

Box 1, Folder 15

Takeshima - Japanese rurals undated

Box 1, Box 3

[Various photos from Korea including rural and air shots (not scanned)] 1928

Box 1, Folder 16

[Various postcards and photos: Shanghai, Tokyo, Seattle] 1922-1949

Negatives and slides

Box 3, Item 10

Air - Toyko - Japan [color transparencies slides] undated

Box 3, Item 14

Air - Tokyo Sapporo, Japan [color transparencies slides] undated

Box 3, Folder 1

Canada: Montreal [slide sheets] undated

Box 2, Item 3

Glass negatives of Korea book and thesis maps [lantern slides] undated

Box 3, Item 2

Hawaii - commercial slides [3 slide cube cartridges] undated

Box 3, Item 3

Hawaii, Kauai, and Korea [3 slide cube cartridges] 1976

Box 3, Item 18

Hokkaido - also air - Japan [color transparencies slides] undated

Box 2, Folder 1

Hokkaido and Miura Peninsula [6 x 8 cm negative album] undated

Box 3, Item 16

Hokkaido, Japan [color transparencies slides] undated

Box 3, Item 21

Hokkaido - Walter Jones - Japan [color transparencies slides] undated

Box 3, Item 25

Japan [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 30

Japan countryside or seacoast + Korea undated

Box 3, Item 12

Japan: electric co. [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 5, case 1

Japan - farm village [slides] undated

Box 3, Folder 2

Japan: fishing village (Tobeshima) [slide sheet] undated

Box 3, Item 19

Japan - fuel refine factory [slides] undated

Box 5, case 6

Japan - Hokkaidi [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 13

Japan - Hokkaido and Tohoku [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Folder 3

Japan: Kobe and U.S.A.: Virginia [slide sheets] undated

Box 3, Folder 4

Japan: Regional maps [slide sheet] undated

Box 5, case 5

Japan - rural landscape and farm village [glass encased slides] undated

Box 3, Item 44

Japan [small canister with undeveloped film] undated

Box 4

[Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong (slides)] undated

Box 5, case 4

Japan - Tobeshima [slides] undated

Box 3, Folder 5

Japan: Tobeshima [slide sheet] undated

Box 3, Item 23

Japan - Tohoku near rural area [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 17

Japan - Tohoku -Tokyo [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 2, Box 4

[Japan trip positives, negatives, and small photos] undated

Box 2, Box 3

[Japanese farm village, Okayama, Yamakata, and Mito (6 small negative albums)] undated

Box 3, Item 26

Japanese manners and customs vol 1: festival (color slides) undated

Box 2, Folder 2

Kitakami and Northern Honshu [4.5 x 6 cm negative album] undated

Box 3, Item 4

Korea [3 slide cube cartridges] undated

Box 3, Item 6-7

Korea [3 slide cube cartridges] undated

Box 1, Box 1

[Korea (37 glass negatives)] undated

Box 1, Box 2

[Korea (41 glass negatives)] undated

Box 2, Folder 3

[Korea, 137 images (4.5 x 6 cm negative album)] undated

Box 3, Item 5

Korea and Hawaii [3 slide cube cartridges] undated

Box 1, case 2

[Korea and Japan countryside (51 slides)] undated

Box 3, Item 29

Korea [color slides] undated

Box 5, case 2

Korea - east coast and S.E. Air [slides] undated

Box 2, Item 4-5

[Korea: glass maps of various thesis (lantern slides)] undated

Box 3, Item 47

Korea: Kyonjido Boaomyi's saemaeul movement [slides] undated

Box 2, Folder 4

[Korea: negatives and positives (126 images) and newspaper clippings (4.5 x 6 cm negative album)] undated

Box 3, Item 1

Korea: old map sets [slides in carousal tray] undated

Box 5, case 3

Korea - Seoul, Taejon (flight across) [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 32

Korea: Ulsan Hyundi shipyards and Panmunjon and view to the north [slides] 1995

Box 3, Item 33

Korea: Youngnam rural field, Panmunjon and near Poksan circa 1990s

Box 2, Folder 5

Kyushu trip [negatives and positives, 4.5 x 6 cm negative album] undated

Box 3, case 1

[Maps and Korea slides] undated

Box 3, Folder 6

[Maps and landscapes, unidentified (slide sheet)] undated

Box 3, Item 45

Nikko and Hokome, Japan [small canister with undeveloped film] undated

Box 3, Item 20

Noltonshu and Abara - Japan [[color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 40

N.C. and San Francisco [slides] undated

Box 1, case 1

[Old world maps of Korea (62 slides)] undated

Box 3, Item 27

Panmonjon [slides] 1979

Box 3, Item 15

Sapporo, Hokkaido [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 24

Sapporo - Hokkaido University, Japan undated

Box 3, Item 22

Sapporo, Japan [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 28

Slides of sightseeing - Tokyo undated

Box 2, Box 2

[Tokyo, family Christmas, Korea farm and civil house, and Saikoku (7 small negative albums)] undated

Box 3, Item 11

Tokyo pottery and Stkcot Scenes [color transparencies slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 8

Toronto Canada island prints [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 34

Trip across country I [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 42

Trip across country II - U.S.A. [slides] undated

Box 2, Box 1

[Undeveloped film roles and miniature prints - mainly private events] undated

Box 3, Item 46

U.K. (Windor?) and private house undated

Box 3, Item 9

[U.S.A. and Japan slides (Okayama field trip) undated

Box 3, Item 43

U.S.A. and Switzerland - family undated

Box 3, Item 38

U.S.A. - family - Hamilton [slides] 1954-1955

Box 3, Item 41

U.S.A. - family - U of M [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 39

U.S.A - family - (U of M and island) [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 37

U.S.A. - family pictures [slides] undated

Box 3, Folder 7

U.S.A: Georgia [slide sheet] undated

Box 3, Item 36

U.S.A - Grand Canyon and San Francisco [slides] undated

Box 3, Item 35

U.S.A. - San Francisco from air [slides] 1959

Box 3, Item 31

[Volcanic eruption and landscape slides] undated

Maps

Box 1, Folder 2

Asia, cartovue outline map 1966

Box 1, Folder 3

[Asia "Mod-o-Lite" transparency map] undated

Box 1, Folder 4

Australia-Pacific transparent map] undated

Box 1, Folder 5

[China and Japan outline projector map] undated

Box 1, Folder 17

World, cartovue outline map 1966

Box 6, Folder 1

Maps of Korea, China, and Japan (14) undated

Box 1, Folder 18

World War II: Pacific Area [transparent projector map] undated

Realia

Box 6, Box 4

[Field notebook (hardback, small)] undated

Box 6, Box 4

Saemaul Movement (new rural village movement), Saemaul song, explanation of the movement [cassette tape] 1975

Box 6, Box 4

Stones (7 pieces) collected at Mt. Kumkang undated

Box 6, Box 4

[Yellow stone of unknown origin (1)] undated

Writings, research, and printed matter

Box 7, Folder 1

"Geographic Factors in Regional Groupings (a digest)" [6 copies] undated

Box 7, Folder 2

"The Geographical Feature of Kaiba-Plateau in Korea" [article in Korean] undated

Box 6, Box 1

Index cards of articles and monographs (arranged by subject) undated

Box 7, Folder 3

"Korea is Transformed" (reprinted from The Geographical Magazine) [2 copies] undated

Box 7, Folder 4

[List of geographical journals (handwritten)] undated

Box 7, Folder 5

Old Korean Geographical Works: a bibliography undated

Box 7, Folder 6

"Southeastern Littoral of Korea" [multiple copies] undated

Box 7, Folder 7

[Table in Korean] undated

Box 7, Folder 8

"The Training of Foreign Geographers in the United States" [Pamphlets, 4 copies] undated

Box 6, Box 2

Index cards of journal articles and monographs 1868-1949

Box 6, Box 3

[Index cards relating to geographical materials (3 x 5)] 1912-1986

Box 6, Box 4

[Index cards relating to geographical materials (4 x 6)] 1912-1986

Box 7, Folder 9

"The Journal of Geography" Number 1 1937-01

Box 7, Folder 10

"Saigon, French Indo-China 1937-01

Box 7, Folder 11

"Harbin, Manchoukuo" 1940-05

Box 7, Folder 12

"Climatic Regions of Korea and their Economy" 1941-01

Box 7, Folder 13

"Notes on a Physiographic Diagram of Tyosen (Korea)" 1941-10

Box 7, Folder 14

Research Monographs on Korea 1941-1952

Box 7, Folder 15

"Japan: a geographical view", American Geographical Society Special Publication No. 28 1943

Box 7, Folder 16

"Rural Geographic Landscapes in Korea" 1945-06-01

Box 7, Folder 17

"Geographic Publications of Hermann Lautensach on Korea" 1946-05

Box 7, Folder 18

"Physical Basis for Korean Boundaries" 1946-05

Box 7, Folder 19

"Maps of Korea" [article] 1946-05

Box 7, Folder 20

The Voice of Korea, Vol. III, No. 61 1946-06-06

Box 7, Folder 21

The Journal of Geography Number 3 [includes additional copies of article "The Land of Ceylon"] 1947-03

Box 7, Folder 22

The Journal of Geography, Number 4 1947-04

Box 7, Folder 23

"Geographical Journals in Asia" [journal article, 22 copies] 1947-08-16

Box 7, Folder 24

"The Diversity if IndoChina's Physical Geography" [multiple copies] 1947-08

Box 7, Folder 25

"Exercises for Teaching Local Geography at the College Level" 1948-10

Box 7, Folder 26

The Journal of Geography vol XLVII, Number 7 [publication and separate articles] 1948-10

Box 7, Folder 27

Calcutta Geographical Review Vol. VIII, Nos. 3 and 4: "Geographical Landscape in Korea State" 1948-09-1948-12

Box 7, Folder 28

"Bibliography of Western Language Materials on Korea" 1949

Box 7, Folder 29

"The Thirty-Eighth Parallel in Korea" 1949-01

Box 7, Folder 30

"Economic Geography" Vol. 25, No. 3 [6 copies] 1949-07

Box 7, Folder 31

Korean Review Vol. II, Number 1 1949-09

Box 7, Folder 32

Korea: Land, Volk, Schicksal by Herman Latensach (notes by Shannon McCune) 1950

Box 7, Folder 33

"Confusion in Asia" 1950-04

Box 7, Folder 34

The Journal of Geography 1950-05

Box 7, Folder 35

Geography of Korea by V.T. Zaichikov (introduction and notes by Shannon McCune) 1952

Box 7, Folder 36

Korea Survey Vol. 2, No. 1 1953-01

Box 7, Folder 37

Bulletin of the Geographical Institute [printed journal and additional copies of article] 1954

Box 7, Folder 38

"Geography textbook exchange with Japan" 1955-01

Box 7, Folder 39

"The United States and the Far East". The American Assembly Conferences Collected Final Edition 1956

Box 7, Folder 40

"Thoughts on Bali" [5 copies] 1957-06-01

Box 7, Folder 41

The Korea Times [Newspaper] 1957-09-09

Box 7, Folder 42

Regional Realities of Korea 1959

Box 7, Folder 43

Korea: Geographic Parallels, 1950-1960 1960-05

Box 7, Folder 44

"Thoughts on Reading Applications for Grants in Geography" 1960-05

Box 7, Folder 45

"Tales of the McCune-Reischauer System for the Romanization of Korean" 1961-10

Box 7, Folder 46

"Social Science and Korean Studies: Resources" by He Sung Chun Koh 1967

Box 7, Folder 47

"Report on Education in West Irian (sic) based on observations during a visit - June 22-July 19 1967" 1967-08-25

Box 7, Folder 48

"Shannon McCune: Director of the American Geographical Society" 1967-10

Box 7, Folder 49

"Geography as What is and is to Be" [5 copies] 1969-11-28

Box 7, Folder 50

Institute of Current world Affairs 1970-02-03

Box 7, Folder 51

"United Nations Development Programme Fund to the United Nations for the Development of West Irian (sic)" 1970-02-06

Box 7, Folder 52

"Agricultural changes in the Ryukyu Islands: Geographical Aspects" 1970-05-01

Box 7, Folder 53

"Geography: Where? Why? So What?" 1970-11

Box 7, Folder 54

Proceedings of the 1971 DuPont environmental engineering seminar, Vol. XXVI, No. 1 [4 copies] 1971

Box 7, Folder 55

"The Ryukyu Islands: Geographic Aspects of a Change in Sovereignty" 1972-09

Box 7, Folder 56

[Background Papers for Conference on Personalities of Korean American Cultural Relations] 1973

Box 7, Folder 57

Transactions Vol L, Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch 1975

Box 8, Folder 1

Ras Korea Reprint Series Catalogue 1975-08

Box 8, Folder 2

"The Mansei Moment," Colloquium Paper No. 5 [2 copies] 1976

Box 8, Folder 3

Maps of the Ryukyu Islands and Map Stamps of the Ryukyu Islands Under U.S. Admin 1945-1972 1976

Box 8, Folder 4

Essays and Papers Vol. 7: "The testing of a missionary: George Shannon McCune and the Korea Conspiracy Case of 1910-1913" [Full publication and article copies] 1977

Box 8, Folder 5

Art of Korean Map [exhibition catalog, 5 copies] 1977-01

Box 8, Folder 6

American Oriental Society Program of the 187th Meeting 1977-04-26-1977-04-28

Box 8, Folder 7

"World Maps by Korean Cartographers" 1977-06

Box 8, Folder 8

Father Regis' Map of Korea, 1710-1735 (7th International Conference on the History of Cartography) 1977-08-08-1977-08-11

Box 8, Folder 9

The Korean Cartographic Tradition: It is Cross-Cultural Relations 1980-05-15

Box 8, Item 1-3

Lands of Conflict in East Asia [spiral bound book, 3 copies] 1980-11

Box 8, Folder 10

Korean Studies Forum: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Korea, No. 7 Summer-Fall 1981

Box 8, Folder 11

"The American Image of Korea in 1882: a Bibliographical Sketch" 1982-03-24

Box 8, Folder 12

National Division and Regionalism 1982-06

Box 8, Folder 13

Korean Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2 1982-07

Box 1, Folder 1

["American Support of Presbyterian Missions in Korea" by George Shannon McCune (reprint)] 1984-05-01

Box 8, Folder 14

"Antecedents of a Commodore Perry Map of Korea of 1854" [article from the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 4 copies] 1984-06

Box 8, Folder 15

Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, No. 59 1984-06

Box 8, Folder 16

Shannon McCune correspondence with USC regarding bool collection purchase 1988-04-1988-05

Box 8, Folder 17

"Special Articles on the economy of Japan in the Summer of 1945" 1988-04

Box 8, Folder 18

Father Gaubil's Memoire of Lieou Kreou of 1751 [5 copies] 1988-09-23

Box 8, Folder 19

"Intelligence on the Economic Collapse of Japan in 1945" 1989-03-01

Box 1, Folder 13

[Shannon McCune letter to Korean Heritage Library] 1990-02-10

Box 8, Folder 20

Letter from Syuzi Inouye to Mr. McCune, hand drawn maps of a farm village in Hokkaido, Japan, and two booklets 1952-1959

Processing Information

This material was added to the collection in 2023 from accession no. 2023-003

Box 9

Unprocessed materials