This page explains how to search and navigate the current corpus without requiring the user to read the exhibition first. The exhibition offers a reading sequence; this guide offers a finding sequence.
Start with the top folders
1. Original Record Files
Use this zone when you want military record photographs and institutionally produced images. The strongest entry points are:
- record groups
- source organizations
- producers
- dates
2. Guided Walks through the U.S. Base and the City
Use this zone when you want curated routes, place-based sequences, and exhibition-linked materials. Here, series and venues are often stronger than record-group logic.
3. Kim’s Historical Lens
Use this zone when you want seminars, public discussion, site visits, and present-day interpretation.
Use metadata axes together
The most useful axes right now are:
seriessourcesvenuescreatorsdate
venues is now filled across the live item set, but broad terms such as Yongsan are less useful than more specific venues like Yongsan Garrison, Ichon-dong, Camp Kim, or Dragon Hill Lodge.
If you want to read through the exhibition
Go to:
/exhibition/- then choose
section-01throughsection-07
Each section now expands into place-based item groupings, so the exhibition is also a route into the archive.
Recommended order of discovery
- Pick the top folder first.
- Narrow by
seriesor record group. - Use
sources,venues,creators,date, ormedia type. - Finish with keyword search across title, summary, and description.
Note on this English version
This English page is a Phase 2 companion rather than a full line-by-line translation. It exists to establish the multilingual public structure while the Korean guide remains the fuller working source.