Frank Williston Papers, 1924-1966.

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Frank Williston Papers, 1924-1966.

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Five boxes plus maps of China, Japan and Korea. Four boxes contain single issues of magazines, guide books, booklets, and pamphlets on China, Japan, Manchuria, Malaya, Burma, Korea, and the Southeast Asia region. The materials are mainly on the political, historical and economic conditions. There is also one framed (5 x 7") portrait of an unidentified Chinese plus an assortment of pictorial postcards and photo snapshots. The fifth box contains a collection of folded maps and there are twelve rolled maps of the region on the open shelf. Most of these maps and printed materials are from 1936 to 1945. Frank Williston was a specialist in Far Eastern affairs, particularly Japan and China, who taught at the College of Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) before World War II. This collection contains materials on the political, historical and economic conditions in China, Japan, Manchuria, Malaya, Burma, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia. It also contains correspondence pertaining to the Nanking Theological Seminary during the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937. The collection contains publications, reprints, pamphlets, reports, correspondence, maps, a transcript and a manuscript.

6.5 linear feet (6 boxes and 12 maps)

University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library

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University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library

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University of Puget Sound. Archives.

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University of Puget Sound

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Over the time period covered, the University was variously known as Puget Sound University (1888-1903), College of Puget Sound (1914-1960), and University of Puget Sound (1903-1914 and 1960-present). From the description of University of Puget Sound History Photograph Collection, 1888-1973. (University of Puget Sound Library). WorldCat record id: 746576314 From the guide to the University of Puget Sound History Photograph Collection, 1888-1973, (University of Puget Sound Arc...

Williston, Frank Goodman, 1899-

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Frank Goodman Williston was born 1899. He was a specialist in Far Eastern affairs, particularly Japan and China, who taught at the College of Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) before World War II. He earned his master's degree (1926) and PhD (1935) from the University of Chicago. Most of his academic career was at the University of Washington. In the 1950s and 1960s he broadcast a weekly radio program for KUOW (Seattle) dealing with events in the Far East. From the guide to...