Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

World War II Photo Album, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 10/12/2008.

Processing Information

Accessioned and minimally processed by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist, in March 2009. Further arrangement by Nathaniel Baako, SCRC Staff, in March 2009.

Scope and Contents

Photo album of a U.S. American soldier documenting his WWII tour of duty in Japan, circa 1945-1946. Includes photos of Okinawa, Nagasaki, Naha, Ominato, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Sasebo, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Matsuyama, Kure, Hiroshima, and Kyota. While some photos are more of a sightseeing nature, many depict American service men and army camps, Japanese prisoners of war, and destroyed cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. All pages and and most photos have brief handwritten descriptions.

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Photographs

Topical Term:

• World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Hiroshima--Pictoral works
• World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Nagasaki--Pictoral works
• World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Pictorial works
• World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Pictorial works.

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