Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the Chosen Hotel, Keijo (Seoul), Korea, [s.d.]. The hotel is regal in appearance as it stands three stories tall with fine automobiles parked on the left side. The base of the building is lined with short bushes and trees and the roof comes to a point where a flag waves. What appears to be a pagoda can be seen at right, standing next to the main building. "At 2:30pm on September 6, 1945, U.S. Army Capt. George Stengel of Liaison Team No. 9 and Colonel Y. Noguchi, the Japanese officer in charge of the three POW camps in Korea, met there to arrange for the release of 680 Allied prisoners of war. Approximately two weeks later, all of the prisoners were successfully repatriated, and within a few years, Noguchi was tried at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, found guilty, and hanged for his maltreatment of those prisoners" -- Bill Streifer, the USC Digital Libraries patron.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
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