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SEA/SEA. Southeast Asia Collection

 Record Group Term
Identifier: SEA/SEA

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Marybeth Clark Collection

 Collection — 14 boxes
Identifier: SEA-SEA-014
Scope and Contents

This collection focuses on Marybeth Clark's personal and professional life as an educator of Vietnamese. Materials include personal and professional correspondences, photographs and slides, as well as handmade artwork. A majority of the collection consists of language teaching materials and scholarly papers written by Marybeth Clark, and others, about numerous Southeast Asian Languages.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-2005; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2015
Found in: Northern Illinois University

George V. Smith and Chrystal S. Smith Slide Collection

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: SEA-SEA-016
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of personal photographs of George V. and Chrystal S. Smith taken during their time in Southeast Asia. The collection features slides from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. The slides feature photographs of temples, markets, festivals, villages and daily life in Southeast Asia.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-2009; Other: Date acquired: 10/14/2016
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Kenton Clymer Burma Papers

 Collection — 31 boxes
Identifier: SEA-SEA-015
Scope and Contents This collection consists of declassified state department correspondences to and from the Burmese government, which Professor Clymer used as research for his book, A Delicate Relationship:  The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945.  The documents provide a look into U.S Foreign policy and attitude towards Burma from the country's independence in 1948 to anti communism attitudes during the cold war to the emergence of an opposition in the 1980's,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-2016; Other: Date acquired: 10/15/2015
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Kenton Clymer Philippines Papers

 Collection — 11 boxes
Identifier: SEA-SEA-017
Abstract

This collection contains 11 boxes. Each box has anywhere from 4 to 15 folders of materials.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1945; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/2017
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Anti-Communist Posters and Booklets in Thailand

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: SEA-SEA-020
Scope and Contents These anti-communist posters and booklets were produced by the United States Information Service (USIS) in Thailand in the 1960s. They were propaganda materials used for fighting against the communist influences in Thailand, especially in the Northeastern region, during the Cold-War era. Most of the posters displayed in this collection are part of the series “Communism or Freedom,” donated to Northern Illinois University Libraries by Mr. George Smith, who was a Peace Corps volunteer teaching...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1969; Other: Date acquired: 12/03/2018
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Kenton Clymer India Papers

 Collection — 18 boxes
Identifier: SEA-SEA-019
Scope and Contents

Materials used by Professor Kenton Clymer to research his third book Quest for Freedom:  The United States and India's Independence (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1995).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1938-1958; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/2017
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Kenton Clymer John Hay Papers

 Collection — 13 boxes
Identifier: SEA-SEA-018
Scope and Contents The collection consists of notes that professor Kenton Clymer used to write his first book:  John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975).  Hay was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, then Ambassador to Great Britain (1897-98), and Secretary of State (1898-1905).  As Secretary of State, he presided over the annexation for the Philippines, and for a few months was in charge of US policy in the Philippines.  A few months after war broke out between the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1905; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/2017
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Cao-Dai Collection

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: SEA-SEA-022
Scope and Contents

Materials in this collection cover aspects of the Cao-Dai religion. Caodaism is a montheistic syncretic religion officially established in the city of Tay Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 03/12/2019
Found in: Northern Illinois University

David Steinberg Collection

 Collection — 27 boxes
Identifier: SEA-SEA-021
Scope and Contents

A majority of the materials are about Burma/Myanmar and Korea (North and South). There are also materials about other Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 04/16/2019
Found in: Northern Illinois University

Edward Law Yone Papers

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: SEA-SEA-002
Scope and Contents

The Edward Law-Yone Papers includes articles about different aspects of Burmese society, from politics to folklore, to Buddhism.  It also includes some personal materials, among them, Law-Yone’s resume and twenty-four correspondence letters between Law-Yone and Mr. and Mrs. Hanks.  The collection also includes a typed manuscript of Edward-Law Yone’s autobiography, My Life.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1955-1975; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/2003
Found in: Northern Illinois University

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