Paul Junji Toshima Collection

The Paul Junji Toshima Collection (1942-1953) contains 640 photographs and a painting belonging to Paul Junji Toshima. The bulk of the photographs were taken during the Korean War when Toshima served in a military intelligence unit. The images within the albums include photographs of Prisoners of War and the shelters they were held, secret military mission code-named Operation Little Switch, a variety of photographs of the truce talks and switching of Prisoners of War on both sides, an 8x10 inch photograph of a captured communist platoon leader and 12 pieces of propaganda- two of which are attached to reports with translations and interpretations. The collection also includes a handwritten chart listing all officers and enlisted men; photographs of high ranking military and government officials including Far East Commander and Chief General Mark Clak and Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg; photographs of the landscape and signs along the 38th parallel; and an image of the President of South Korea Sygman Rhee and his wife. Additional photographs include Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea in 1953; government buildings; shrines; bombed neighborhoods; rural scenes and farm life; and a photograph taken in November 1953 of Hiroshima, Japan.

The collection also contains an original painting of an incarceration camp and an original photograph of children at an incarceration camp.