Korean War orphan arrives, 1953

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1 image. Korean War orphan arrives, 1 December 1953. Lee Kyung, aged 4; Chief Boatswain's Mate Vincent Paladino. (Handout). ; Supplementary material reads: "News Bureau, United Air Lines, Bill O'Hern, MAdison 6-6311, Night SUnset 1-0147. Story or caption info for inclosed [sic] raw neg. Holding on to his adopted father's Navy blouse, tiny Korean war orphan Lee Kyung Soo, 4, arrived at the Los Angeles International Airport late today, (Monday) from San Francisco aboard a United Air Lines plane to appear on a television show. His father, Chief Boatswain's Mate Vincent Paladino still showed the strain he has endured in bring [sic] the boy into the United States after finding him roaming around Navy messhalls [sic] in Inchon late in 1952. After much official red-tape Paladino was able to bring the child into the U.S. last week. Paladino, a veteran Navy man of 13 years, plans to take Lee to his parents home in New Rochelle, New York where he will join a ready made family of 32 grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins."

Asset Metadata

Title Korean War orphan arrives, 1953

Subject Korean War, 1950-1953 (lcsh), Orphans (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1 World Way (roadway), airport features: Los Angeles International Airport (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1953-12-01

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), image/tiff (imt), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1953-12-01

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m24254

Identifier EXM-N-10072-010~1.tif (filename), examiner-c44-113587 (legacy record id), 10072-010 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 113587

Unique identifier UC11680397

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-10072-010~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.5 in × 32.0 in at 300dpi
64.9 cm × 81.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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