[KS] US military archives on tourism

[skhwang3 at gmail.com]

Dear Dr. Pai,

The best place for this research is probably the National Archives (NARA)
II in
College Park, MD. This is their website:
http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park.
It is close to DC, but not exactly inside.

The Far East collections at NARA are vast in number and scale, so you need
to
talk to archivists and some long-term researchers working there.
NARA's help
desk will direct you to right people. Last time I was there, a lot of East
Asianists
would ask Mr. Boylan or Dr. Pang (if he is still there) and others for
tips.

LOC is OK, but there is no guarantee that you will find exactly what you
want;
NARA still has more resources. I would call both LOC librarian and NARA
staff
for more information before planning a visit.

Best,

Su-kyoung




On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Hyung Pai <hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu>wrote:

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> Dear members,
> I am interested in locating US military archives ( preferably from the
> Occupation and Korean War period and after) and primary sources on the
> topic of travel and tourism.
> Currently, I am trying to track down tourist brochures, postcards,
> guidebooks as well travelogues either on Korea or Japan. After the fall of
> the Japanese empire, I have found out that many of the former JTB offices
> and Korean travel agencies were working closely with military bureaus to
> promote cultural destinations for R and R for the troops on leave. Was
> their a centralized tourist office/liason ( coordinating Pacific
> destinations) or did the USO organize these activities? Where did they go -
> Kyongju, Atami, Nikko, Yokohama? Did they take-over former Japanese station
> hotels like the Chosen or Bando, hot springs resorts, and build new leisure
> facilities ( gold courses? ) besides all the girly bars, geisha houses (
> seen in many old Hollywood Movies) and brothels that we know about ( I know
> the Walker Hill hotel complex was part of this kind of joint-venture with
> American Airlines corp in the 1960s)
> But, so far, I have only found sporadic photos and brochures.
> I will be in the DC area in early December, are there sources at the LOC ?
>  I have never worked with US military archives and I do not even know
> where to start. Any advice is welcome.
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> Hyung Il Pai
> Associate Professor
> East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department, University of
> California, Santa Barbara, HSSB Building
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
> Fax: 805) 893-7671
> Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
> Dept.profile:http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/content/people_pai.html
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