ORU_Ax160.xml Guide to the Harold Joyce Noble Papers 1918-1948 Noble (Harold Joyce) papers Tanya Parlet Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2013
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Harold Joyce Noble papers Welch, Herbert, 1862-1969 Noble, Harold Joyce, 1903-1953 Ax 160 0.5 linear feet 1 container 1 manuscript box 1918-1948 Harold Joyce Noble (1903-1953) was a history professor at the University of Oregon who specialized in Far Eastern affairs and who also worked as a foreign correspondent and served as First Secretary of the American Embassy at Seoul, South Korea. The collection (1918-1948) contains minutes, reports, correspondence, and other documents reporting conditions and events in South Korea and Japan and activities of the agencies Noble worked with. English . 1

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 Noble, Harold Joyce, 1903-1953 American Red Cross. Japan Chapter University of Oregon Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 Japan--History--1912-1945 Korea--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1948 Korea Harbin (China)--Social conditions--20th century Korea--Social conditions--20th century Japan--Social conditions--20th century Korea--Foreign Relations--United States Japan--Foreign Relations--United States United States--Foreign Relations--Japan United States--Foreign Relations--Korea Harbin (China)--History--20th century Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952 Journalists--United States Foreign correspondents--United States Historians--United States College teachers--Oregon--Eugene History teachers--Oregon--Eugene Oregon Reports Correspondence

Harold Joyce Noble (1903-1953) was born in Korea, and educated at the University of California. He became a professor of history at the University of Oregon beginning in 1931. He specialized in Far Eastern affairs.

"In 1946, he was a foreign correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. In 1948, he was appointed a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, and the following year was named First Secretary of the American Embassy at Seoul, a position he held until 1951."

[Source: Finding aid for the Harold Joyce Noble collection at UC Berkely, Bancroft Library: Harold Joyce Noble papers, circa 1930-1947, BANC MSS Z-Z 147.]

The collection (1918-1948) records regarding conditions and events in South Korea and Japan, and activities of the agencies Noble worked with.

Material within the collection includes:

minutes of the 7th, 8th, and 9th meetings of the American Red Cross, Japan Chapter, in Tokyo, on June 26, July 16, and September 6, of 1918. Also includes copies of reports by Bishop Herbert Welch to R. S. Curtice, Seoul, Korea, on conditions at Harbin, 1918;

records, including letters, documents, copies of reports, and telegrams, of H. J. Noble as chairman of the Russian Refugee Relief Committee (Foreign) in Seoul, Korea, 1922-1923;

documents relating to Korean affairs in 1946, and the American occupation of Japan in 1947. The documents originate from when Noble was foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post in 1946, and chief of the Publications Branch, Civil Intelligence Section, G.H.Q., Far East Command, Tokyo, 1947-1948.

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