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Richard H. MacKinnon Collection (2494) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 24940000000
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
0.5
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 14 November 2012
Scope and Contents
Approximately half a linear foot of photos, slides, artifacts and a booklet documenting Richard H. MacKinnon's time in Vietnam as a contractor for the Philco Corporation from 1962 - 1964. The collection contains photos and slides of Saigon, Pleiku, Bien Hoa and several villages. Additionally the collection contains some fold out tourist maps of Saigon, some Vietnamese money, and a booklet entitled The Sacred Flame about Buddhist's plight in Vietnam
Biographical / Historical
Richard H. MacKinnon was a contractor for the Philco Corporation and worked in Vietnam from 1962 to 1964.
1
Photographs
VA066045-VA066160
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1
Slides
Two-Hundred-and-Ninety slides, with captions
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7
Museum Objects
2494museum4230--D226.4--One Hundred Dong Bank Note
2494museum4231--D226.4--Vetnam 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 Coins
2494museum4236--D226.4--Six, Vietnam One Dong coins
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  • Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D058.6 ]]
  • Box 1000 : [Barcode: 1000 ] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D054.1 ]]

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=24940000000

Citation
Richard H. MacKinnon Collection (2494) Finding Aid, Richard H. MacKinnon Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=24940000000, Accessed 13 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line
24940000000, Richard H. MacKinnon Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 13 Nov 2012 [Updated: 10 Apr 2016]