Collection contains research materials on early Korean Americans and is mostly consist of photographs (original and reprint), postcards, print materials (photocopied and original) and newspaper clippings (photocopied and original) on research subjects including persons and historical events.
Biography: Hyung-ju (also known as Henry) Ahn graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964, worked as a computer systems analyst for aerospace companies and for Orange County, California (1965-95), and received his MA in history from California State University, Fullerton. He wrote his thesis on Korean interpreters at Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. The collection contains mostly Korean printed materials, including religion and history books, and textbooks published under Japanese occupation. Also contains an original documentary motion picture film, Mugunghwa Tongsan (Hibiscus Garden), about the Korean community in Hawaii from 1900-47. (note: this biography is from the finding aid for his another collection at UCLA. Collection number: 368)