Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Korean Postcards Collection
Date (inclusive): ca. 1920s - 1930s
Collection number: SC 873
Extent: .1 linear feet (1 folder)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Vault
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Korean Postcards Collection. SC 873. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2005.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains a group of nine color ethnographic cards, six of people, three of various locations in Seoul, (known
as Keijô by the Japanese colonial authorities who controlled Korea during this period, 1910-1945). Title captions (in English)
are: "Everyday Wear of Korea," a man in his gown and horse-hair hat; "the Post Man of Korea," the postman is holding an umbrella
and wears a blue long silk gown, smokes a one meter long pipe and has a leather bag to hold the mail and wears a tall grass
hat; "Carrying Water of a Lady," shows a woman with a baby strapped to her back while she balances and holds a water jug on
her head with a rural village in the background; "Needle Work of High-Class Lady," shows two Korean young girls, one uses
a sewing machine, the other stitches by hand; "The Manner of Korean" shows some eight members of a Korean family as they
pose for the camera; "Carrying Water of Korean Girl" shows some five young girls by the riverside balancing water jugs on
top of their heads.
The scenic views are: "Korean Community, Keijô," a view of many farm houses and a rice paddy; "Pagoda Park Mon Seoul," shows
a seven-tiered pagoda with some people looking on, and a pavilion in a park setting; the third is "The Chosen Hotel Viewed
from the Back Garden, Keijô". Most of these were published in Seoul by Hinode-Shôkô.