Dana Tai Soon Burgess Photographs
name: label: Donor
content: Burgess, Dana Tai Soon
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii
label: Place
content: Korea
topic: label: Occupation
content: Dancers -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Emigration and immigration
label: Topic
content: Immigrants
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Dana Tai Soon Burgess and James Freeman, 2016
creator: label: Donor
content: Burgess, Dana Tai Soon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Dana Tai Soon Burgess Photographs
accruals: label: Accruals
content: Approximately 0.33 cubic feet of archival material consisting of family photographs was donated in 2018 by Dana  Tai Soon Burgess.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Washington, D.C. choreographer, dancer and performance artist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 map-folder)
label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-2018
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1397
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Passports
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Programs
label: Type
content: Yearbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection isarranged into two series. 

Series 1: Photographs

Series 2: Miscellaneous
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2020.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Passports
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Programs -- 21st century
label: Genre/Form
content: Yearbooks -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection documents the life of Dana Tai Soon Burgess, and that of his Korean American family, dating back to 1904. Included are photographs of his family before and after they immigrated to the United States; some photographs taken during a time when they lived and worked at Kunia Camp, Hawaii; and of Burgess throughout his life. Also included are a Hawaii Identity Card of Anna Kang, and a Korean Imperial Office passport, 1904.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: An abacus, circa 1900 (See Accession #:2016.0006.01) was donated to the Division of Medicine and Science. 

This Chinese-style abacus fits in a wooden box with a wooden cross piece.  There are nine parallel rods, with beads on each rod. Seven rods are made of bamboo, two of metal.  Two beads on each rod are above the cross piece, five below. The beads are rounded, like those on Chinese abacuses. The base of the box slides out to the right.
According to the donor, this abacus was the property of Kim Dong Kuen and his wife, early Korean settlers in Hawaii. They were caretakers at a privately owned beachfront home in the country. Burgess and his family would go to the beach in their model A Ford on Sunday afternoons to go swimming. Before Kim Dong Kuen died, he gave Burgess's grandfather this instrument, his prize abacus. The 1930 U.S. Census lists a Kim Dong Kun, a resident of Honolulu born in about 1884 who emigrated from Korea in 1900.  His wife also was born in Korea, emigrating in 1906. They had five children, all born in Hawaii. The family name was Kim.