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U.S.-Korean Relations Collection
This collection contains a digital facsimile of records held by the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) related to relations between the United States and the Korean peninsula, 1882-1963. Most of the records in this collection come from Record Group 59, the Central Files of the United States Department of State, but Record Groups 43 and 333 are also represented. The records in this collection were selected on the basis that they had already been microfilmed by NARA and so could be digitized efficiently. While some of these records have been available at major universities on microfilm for decades, the goal of this collection was to make all of NARA's Korea-related microfilm publications available in one place, and to all interested researchers, regardless of whether they had access to a major research library.
U.S.-Korean Relations Collection Sample items in the collection
This collection currently contains 12 sub-collections, each of which is a digital facsimile of a NARA microfilm publication. The list below provides the original publication title and the microfilm publication number in brackets for each subcollection. When available, the original NARA Guide to these records has been included with each subcollection.
Confidential U.S. State Department Special Files: Korea, First Supplement, 1951-1966 [C128]
Records of the Department of State Relating to U.S. Political Relations with Korea, 1955-1959 (Decimal File 611) [C18]
Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1955-1959 (Decimal Files 795, 895 and 995) [C19]
Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between Korea and Other States, 1955-59 (Decimal Files 695A and 695B) [C38]
Department of State Special Files Relating to Korea, 1950-57 (Lot File Numbers 55-D-128, 58-D-643, and 59-D-407). [C42]
Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1960-1963. [C74]
Records of the American delegation, U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission on Korea, and records relating to the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK), 1945-1948. [M1243]
Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Korea, 1883-1905. [M134]
Notes From the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906. [M166]
Despatches From U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906. [M167]
With the exception of T1152 and M1243, all of the subcollections above are from Record Group 59 of the US Department of State and are internally arranged according to the departmental filing system in use at the time. For further information on Record Group 59 and its various filing systems see https://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/state-dept/rg-59-central-files
Subcollection T1152 is from Record Group 333 and more information can be found here: https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/333.html
Subcollection M1243 is from Record Group 43 and more information can be found here: https://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/related-records/rg-43
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This collection is the result of a joint effort between the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) and the UW's Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and was partially funded by a Title VI grant to CEAS from the United States Department of Education.