Frank Williston papers
Scope and Contents
The Frank Williston papers 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. In addition, the collection contains maps.
Dates
- Creation: 1827-1972
Creator
- Williston, Frank Goodman (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of Puget Sound.
Biographical note
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 masters 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.
Extent
2.8 Cubic Feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
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.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged by format.
Subject
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (Organization)
- Bates, M. Searle (Miner Searle) (Person)
- Osgood, Cornelius (Person)
- Jinling shen xue yuan (Organization)
- Price, Frank W (Frank Wilson) (Person)
- Sone, Hubert L. (Person)
- McCallum, J. H., Reverend (James H.) (Person)
- Jinling da xue (Organization)
- Shufeldt Mission to Korea (1880-1882) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Frank Williston papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kara E. Flynn
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections Repository
Collins Memorial Library
1500 N. Warner Street #1021
Tacoma 98416-1021 United States us
archives@pugetsound.edu