Korea: USIS, 1949-1951
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers / Series 2: SUBJECT FILE
container: label: Container
content: Box 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Includes photographs of the facility at Pusan, outdoor and internal exhibitions, including captured North Korean equipment, USIS staff preparing photograph and news posters and news leaflets, the Pusan USIS library and staff, Knez, and correspondence on the operations of the Pusan center. Contains a telegram from Dean Acheson requesting Knez as temporary appointee for Arts and Monuments, April 25, 1951; request from United States Embassy, Korea, to Secretary of State, which would enable Knez to take required leave in Korea to complete a village study, August 1, 1951; Chairman, National Assembly of Republic of Korea, thanking Knez for copies of USIS daily bulletins, 25 August 1950; travel orders for Knez in Korea, 1950. Contains a list of emergency staff at the American embassy for the duration of the Korean War along with their promotions. Includes correspondence from Langdon Warner, 1951, about transporting the Korean national collection to Honolulu; 1951 dispatch from the Republic of Korea to the Honolulu Academy of Arts regarding the care of the Korean national collection.