Pachappa Camp: First Koreatown in the United States
Traveling
2024 to 2025
Visit the online exhibition: https://pachappacamp.ucr.edu/
With archival photographs, maps, newspaper articles and advertisements, and other ephemera, Pachappa Camp: First Koreatown in the United States examines the history and legacy of Pachappa Camp, as well as the fraught life story of Korean community leader Dosan Ahn Chang Ho, who in 1926 was deported from the United States after being falsely accused of being a Bolshevist.
California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS
Riverside, CA
October 2021–February 2022
San Francisco & Bay Area Korean Center
San Francisco, CA
June 29–September 28, 2024
Korean Community Center in DC
Alexandria, VA
October 5–November 14, 2024
Korean Community Center in New Jersey
Tenafly, NJ
January 18–February 15, 2025
Korean Cultural Center in Chicago
Wheeling, IL
June 7–28, 2025
The online and traveling Pachappa Camp exhibition is generously funded by a Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place award granted to the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UC Riverside in early 2023.
Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States is curated by Edward Chang, professor of ethnic studies and founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UCR, and Carol K. Park, a UCR graduate student researcher at the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies.
Several photographs and ephemera from the exhibit were provided by Special Collections & Archives, UCR Libraries, University of California, Riverside Kim Family Papers collection. Special thanks to Meiko Inaba for donating the Kim collection materials to the YOK Center and UCR.