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 Finding Aid: Richard H. MacKinnon Collection Item Number: 24940000000

Individual Collection
Location: Individual Collections-M D058.6; Museum Objects D226.4;


Scope & Content:

  • Approximately half a linear foot of photos, slides, artifacts and a booklet documenting Richard MacKinnon's time in Vietnam as a contractor for the Philco Corporation from 1962 - 1964. The photos and slides show Saigon, Pleiku, Bien Hoa and several villages. The collection also contains some fold out tourist maps of Saigon, some Vietnamese money, and a booklet titled the Sacred Flame that talks about the Buddhist plight in Vietnam at the time.

Biographical Note:

  • Richard H. MacKinnon was a contractor for the Philco Corporation and was worked in Vietnam from 1962 to 1964.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
D058.611
Busines card from the'4 Sisters' Bar' and ticket stub
oversize11
Sacred Flame booklet

Separated Materials:

Photographs:VA066045-VA066160.
Slides:Two-Hundred-and-Ninty slided, with capation in a folder.
Museum Objects:2494museum4230--D226.4--One Hundred Dong Bank Note.
 2494museum4231--D226.4--Fifty Su Coin.
 2494museum4232--D226.4--Vietnam 10 Su Coin.
 2494museum4233--D226.4--Hong Kong Fifty Cent Coin.
 2494museum4234--D226.4--Hong Kong Ten Cent Coin.
 2494museum4235--D226.4-- two, Indochine Twenty Cent Coin.
 2494museum4236--D226.4--Six, Vietnam One Dong.

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