Susan Hanley Photographs of Korea, 1956-1959

Susan Hanley was a Department of the Army civilian working as a Director of the Art and Craft Shops. She arrived in Korea in October, 1956 and left about February 1959. She was located at Camp Kaiser until the fall of 1958 when she was transferred to Puson [later called Buson]. Most of the photographs by Hanley in this collection were taken in the vicinity of Camp Kaiser and near Unchon-ni [later called Incheon City). As director of the Crafts Shop, she received permission to take soldiers out of the camp on photo trips into the countryside and the Army provided transportation -- jeep, truck, and bus. Also, according to Hanley, "travel in Korea was in the Army's small planes that were more like taxi cabs, we would call for one and they would pick us up or take us to where ever we wanted to go so there are many aerials in the collection". From Camp Kaiser she went monthly to Seoul to buy supplies for the Crafts Shop and a few photos were taken en route. The railroad images were taken on Hanley's train trip from Seoul to Puson. The remaining photos were taken in Puson -- city, army base, boats, and coast. The University of Southern California does not own the physical photographs. Hanley allowed them to be digitized for this collection.