Nelson C. Price Collection, 1930-1949
1930-1949
Title: Nelson C. Price Collection, 1930-1949
Dates: 1930-1949
Collection Number: GC 1051
Creator/Collector:
Price, Nelson C.
Extent: .8 linear feet
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Letters, drawings, occupation money, newspapers, printed propaganda, posters, photographs and maps relating to the Philippine
Islands during and after the U.S. invasion in 1945.
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Nelson C. Price Collection, 1930-1949. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Biography/Administrative History
Price was a schoolteacher in Yucaipa, California, when he was drafted in June 1941. He served as a Battalion Operations Sergeant
while in the Philippine Islands in 1945. He became a First Lieutenant in 1950.
Scope and Content of Collection
Letters, drawings, occupation money, newspapers, printed propaganda, posters, photographs and maps relating to the Philippine
Islands during and after the U.S. invasion in 1945. Technical Sergeant (T/Sgt.) Nelson C. Price collected the materials from
January to November 1945. Material relates primarily to POW camps (specifically Cabanatuan, Santo Tomas, and Los Banos) and
Japanese military in the Philippines. There is a typescript of Price's unpublished work "One Hundred Days at Luzon," 1945,
in which he records his experiences in the Philippine Islands. There are many original documents attached to the typescript,
including letters, maps and photographs. Also included in the collection is a copy of Price's 1946 Master's thesis, "The
Introduction of American Education to the Christian Provinces of the Philippine Islands."
World War, 1939-1945--Philippines.