Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Korean-American Oral History Project Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1970-1979
Collection number: 1414
Creator:
Korean-American Oral History Project
Extent:
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: The Korean-American Oral History Project at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center was founded to develop oral history source
materials on Korean American history during the 1903-45 period, and to facilitate their use by researchers. The tape-recorded
oral histories of Korean American immigrants to the United States made by Sonia Shinn Sunoo form a part of that project. The
collection consists of 31 cassette tape recordings of interviews with Korean immigrants to the United States.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. The library
can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish or quote
must be submitted in writing to
the Manuscripts Librarian, Department of Special Collections.] Credit shall be given as follows: [c in circle] The Regents
of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Sonia Shinn Sunoo, 1985.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Korean-American Oral History Project Collection (Collection 1414). Department of Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
The Korean-American Oral History Project at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center was founded to develop oral history source
materials on Korean American history during the 1903-45 period, and to facilitate their use by researchers. Its goals are
to collect individual memories of people and events, to develop an indexing project for the collection and to establish a
permanent depository of these records at UCLA. The tape-recorded oral histories of Korean American immigrants to the United
States made by Sonia Shinn Sunoo form a part of that project.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of 31 cassette tape recordings of interviews with Korean immigrants to the United States.
Portions of the collection are in Korean.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Korean-American Oral History Project--Archives.
Korean Americans--California--Interviews.
Audio cassettes.
Sunoo, Sonia Shinn.