More than 20 years ago, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology got a call from a photographer named Roger Marshutz.
He wondered if the museum would like more than 3,000 photos he’d taken in Pusan, South Korea, at the end of the Korean War.
Not sure what to make of the inquiry, Rubie Watson, the first Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, reached out to Carter Eckert, then the Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University.
“He explained what an extraordinarily valuable contribution this would be to the Harvard Museums, as well as to Korean studies at Harvard,” said Sean Kim, co-author of “The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz’s Photographs of Pusan, South Korea, 1952-1954.”
The book makes Marshutz’s photos available in a new format and shares context on what has been called America’s “forgotten war.”
