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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Title: Paul Courtright papers
Creator:
Courtright, Paul
Identifier/Call Number: 3330
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1905-2019
Date (bulk): 1979-1985
Abstract: The Paul Courtright papers contain photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, reports, books, correspondence,
journals, and other material collected and/or created by Paul Courtright, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was stationed
in the Jeonnam Province of South Korea from 1979 to 1981. While working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea, Courtright
witnessed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Courtright later published a book,
Witnessing Gwangju: A Memoir, detailing his experiences.
Language of Material:
English
, Korean
, Chinese
, Japanese
.
Container: 1
The Paul Courtright papers contain photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, reports, books, correspondence,
journals, and other material collected and/or created by Paul Courtright, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was stationed
in the Jeonnam Province of South Korea from 1979 to 1981. While working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea, Courtright
witnessed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Courtright later published a book,
Witnessing Gwangju: A Memoir, detailing his experiences.
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of the East
Asian Library at eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian 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.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
[Box/folder # or Item name], Paul Courtright papers, Collection no. 3330, Korean Heritage Library, East Asian Library, USC
Libraries, University of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Paul Courtright, 2018
Part of the collection has been digitized, but the digital surrogates are not yet publicly available via the USC Digital Library.
The Korean Heritage Library created a collection inventory in Excel in 2018. Most of the description from the Excel inventory
has been copied to this finding aid. The original inventory is linked to this collection's accession record (accession no.
2018-002) and included in the collection material.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Korea -- Description and travel -- Archival resources
Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1988 -- Archival resources
Democratization -- Korea (South) -- Archival resources
Books
Correspondence
Journals (accounts)
Maps
Newspaper clippings
Photograph albums
Reports
Scrapbooks
Courtright, Paul -- Archives
Peace Corps/Korea -- Archives