World War II collection of material, 1917-1959

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Summary

Title:
Collection of material about World War II
Dates:
1917-1959
Abstract:
The Collection of material about World War II was compiled by UCLA Library Special Collections during the war and in the years following it. It includes publications by various governments and private groups covering myriad aspects of the war. It includes material from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Extent:
15.8 linear feet (27 boxes; 4 oversize boxes)
Language:
In roughly descending order of frequency, materials are in English, Italian, French, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, German, Slovenian, Chinese, Norwegian, Spanish, Russian, and Polish.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Collection of material about World War II (Collection 502). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes publications by various governments and private groups covering myriad aspects of the war. It includes material from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. There are books, pamphlets, and periodicals of both an informational and propagandistic nature. There is extremely thorough documentation of the Allied Military Government in northeast Italy. There are a large number of scripts and other source material for theatrical shows at U.S. military facilities. There are also posters, maps, flags, and phonograph records. There is also postwar material, with a small amount of documentation of the military occupation of Germany and Japan, and a very large amount about Italy.

Acquisition information:
Materials in this collection are acquired from various sources. Source information, type and date of acquisition are recorded with their associated materials in the finding aid if known.
Processing information:

Processed by Doug Johnson, 2024.

Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.

We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Problematic Content and Description in UCLA's Library Collections and Archives.

Physical / technical requirements:

CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing and assessment. Please see LSC's Access to Unprocessed Collections Policy for more information about levels of discovery and access of special collections materials and to register interest in unprocessed collections.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Doug Johnson, 2024.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-11-06 09:55:43 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Collection of material about World War II (Collection 502). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
AskLSC@library.ucla.edu
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