Mac Suzuki Photograph Collection

Collection

Mac Suzuki Photograph Collection

• circa 1948-1952 (Creation)

0.5 cubic feet (1 box) (838 35mm slides)

The Mac Suzuki Photograph Collection, MS 196, contains 838 color slides of 35 mm film taken by Mac Suzuki, MD. Most of the images were taken in Japan between 1948 and 1952 while Dr. Suzuki’s worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. This material was donated by the children of Dr. Suzuki. The images are good condition although there is some evidence of vinegar syndrome. Most of the slides are Kodachrome with rich color and very sharp images depicting rural, tourist and work related scenes. A few slides are an off-brand of film, which account for the vinegar syndrome.

The slides are Kodachrome with rich color and very sharp images depicting rural, tourist and work related scenes. The slides were stored in a metal, baked enamel, slide storage container. One unusual characteristic of the storage system is how Dr. Suzuki identified the slides. He used different colors of ink to write on the edges of the cardboard film holder. Using this method, he indicated the subjects of slides, such as Rice, Nikko, etc. Rice depicts rice farming in Japan in the 1950s. Nikko depicts the resort area in the 1950s. Now, the slides are in inert plastic sleeves in folders organized by slide number. This collection is 0.5 cubic feet (1 box).

Open for research.

Materials are in good condition although there is some evidence of vinegar syndrome associated with acetate-based film stock.

Creative Commons License 4.0, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. CC BY-NC-ND. Images are to be used for educational purposes only, and are not to be reproduced without permission from The TMC Library, McGovern Historical Center.

Basic inventory of slides with content and locations based on creator's annotations.

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The Suzuki-Moore family requested that all slides be scanned and a copy of the scans given to the family. Digital copies of collection were delivered to the family.

The Suzuki-Moore family (Sara, Megan, Daniel, and Katherine (Suzuki) Moore) officially donated this material on May 21, 2015.

Accruals are not expected for this collection.

• H. Grant Taylor, MD papers
• Robert D. Lange, MD papers
• ABCC Photograph Collection

• Citation: Mac Suzuki Photograph Collection; MS 196; John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. Please cite the box and folder numbers where appropriate.
• Processing information: Slides have been digitized, and they are stored in the Digital Collection Drive (DCD). A rough inventory of all slide and their subjects based on the creator's notations (categories) is available in the control folder as well as the DCD folder.
• Processing information: Slides rehoused in PAT photograph preservers and grouped in folders within the document box in order of creator assigned identification number. Identification numbers and categories are based on notations provided by the creator on the items.
• Processing information: Numbers in item titles correspond to numerical notations provided by creator. They seem to be an order within subject categories.

Processed and digitized by Alethea Drexler, 2015

• ABCC Collections

• Nikko, Japan
• Japan

• Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (Subject)
• Suzuki, Wilma Zoe Green (Subject)
• Suzuki, Masamichi (Subject)

• photographs
• slides (photographs)