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Title: Robert L. Capp papers
Dates: 1923-1998
Collection number: 99013
Creator:
Capp, Robert L.
Collection Size:
1 manuscript box
0.2 linear feet
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Sound recording of interview, photographs, and miscellany, relating to the American occupation of Japan and aftermath of the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Also includes photographs of victims of the Kanto (Tokyo) earthquake of 1923.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research. Use copies of sound recordings are available for immediate use.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
[Identification of item], Robert L. Capp papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1999
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Technician 4, United States Army and member, occupation forces, Japan, 1945.
Scope and Content of Collection
Materials relate to Capp's experiences during World War II in Japan, including a sound recording of an interview with Capp,
photographs relating to the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan taken by Capp, and photographs found by Capp
of victims of the 1923 Kanto earthquake near Tokyo by an unidentified photographer.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
United States--Armed Forces--Japan
Atomic bomb
World War, 1939-1945--Japan
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923
Phonotapes
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a Brown University Digital Collection of Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection,
available at
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto/