Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000
R.E. Cecil, prisoner of Japanese., 1942-11
- Containers:
- Box 826a, Sleeve 105465.07
- Identifier:
- BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG
- Dates:
- 1942-11
- Scope and content:
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Note enclosed: R.E. Cecil, manager of West Coast Life Insurance Company in Manila for nearly 14 years, interned with 3500 other British and American citizens in Santo Tomas University, Manila, by Japanese. According to his wife, he is chairman of the sanitation and health committee, with about 500 people under him and is one of six executive committeemen operating the camp. Keeps up morale by planning entertainment. Also teaches higher mathematics. Wife last heard from him December 30, 1941 by telephone, just before Manila fell. Her brother in law Chick Parsons who returned on Grissholm (ship) had seen her husband last June 4. He also was in concentration camp. With sister and three nephews he returned here. Mrs. Cecil came on last trip of Coolidge (ship) in October a year ago with three children: Suzita Cecil, 12, Bobby Cecil, 12, Stefani Cecil, 2, and a Chinese amah. Children with their grandparents John K. Cecil and Mrs. John K. Cecil in Palo Alto.
Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
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AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. SOME PORTIONS RESTRICTED.
Boxes 1-218: Restricted due to handling and transportation hazards. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. For Boxes 1-30 and Boxes 70-96 a sleeve-level listing is available in the library.
Boxes 219-3198: Available by appointment only. Advance notice required for use.
- Parent terms of access:
- Copyright to photographs taken by staff photographers of the San Francisco Examiner in this collection has been assigned to the University of California Regents. Only the photographs created by these staff photographers in this collection are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following attribution is required for all uses of these photographs: "Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license."
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481