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San Shashin Shimbun, December 11, 1947

San Shashin Shimbun [The Sun Pictorial Daily], December 11, 1947

“Washington Heights: The Pleasures of Paradise”

Published in a pictorial daily newspaper, this article was a reporter’s impression of life in Washington Heights. He described an idyllic scene of American home life with children laughing and playing games in the yard; implying that it was a place of happiness, where all materials needs were met.

The photographs included a flower arranging lesson for U.S. military housewives, a shopping basket full of items for a weekend trip, and the Commissary PX, which, according to the caption, sold everything from vegetables to meat shipped from the U.S.

 

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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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