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[Robert Kim photograph album of life in Hawaii and World War II service].
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[Robert Kim photograph album of life in Hawaii and World War II service]Creator/Contributor:
Kim, Robert Y. Y., creator, creator.Abstract:
Photograph album compiled by Robert Y.Y. Kim (born 1921) containing chiefly snapshot views and portraits documenting his youth
in Honolulu, especially his classmates and friends at McKinley High School; girlfriends Florence Sasaki and Florence Shigetani;
and various members of his Korean American family. Also includes World War II-era photographs depicting Kim and his fellow
soldiers at Schofield Barracks in Oahu, an unidentified training station in South Carolina, among a prisoner of war "P.O.W.
gang" in Italy, and at various locations in the United States shortly after the war.
Date:
1938 (issued)Subject:
n-us-hiKorean Americans -- Hawaii -- Photographs
Korean American families -- Hawaii -- Photographs
Korean American soldiers -- Photographs
Soldiers -- United States -- Photographs
Américains d'origine coréenne -- Hawaii -- Photographies
Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Photographs
Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Photographies
President William McKinley High School (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Kim, Robert Y. Y -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Compiled by Robert Kim.
A small number of photographs laid into album: removed and filed separately in PIC folder.
Many images described by hand-written captions, in English, on prints or adhesive labels.
Hand-written label on front cover of album: "Robert's school days, some others".
Purchase from Daniel / Oliver ; 2022.
Robert Kim photograph album of life in Hawaii and World War II service, BANC PIC 2024.182, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicportraits.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 160 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 29 x 25 cm
Language:
English