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Ernie Pyle Theatre, October 10, 1948

Though off limits to Japanese as patrons, several hundred Japanese were employed at the Ernie Pyle Theatre as performers, artists, typists, boilermen, and elevator operators. Five issues of the Ernie Pyle Theatre staff newsletter (September 1948 - May 1949) are held in the Prange Collection. The circulation ranged from 400 to 500 copies, presumably enough for all Japanese employees of the theatre. The newsletter included personal announcements (births, deaths, weddings), essays, short explanations of GI slang, movie reviews, and Haiku.

 

 

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Each year, the staff of Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Maryland creates exhibits that showcase materials from the University's collections. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the official naming of the Gordon W. Prange Collection, this year's featured exhibit is Crossing the Divide: An American Dream Made in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952.  The corresponding physical exhibit of Crossing the Divide will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery in Hornbake Library North, University of Maryland, through July 2019.

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The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949.  It is located in Hornbake Library North on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

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