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Title: Frederick M. Sammis, Jr. collection,
Dates: 1939-1945
Collection Number: 46031
Collector: Sammis, Frederick M., collector.
Collection Size:
35 envelopes
(3.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Depicts various scenes from the German occupation of Memel; the Polish campaign; the Russo-Finnish war; the German air and
rocket offensive against Great Britain; naval warfare in the Atlantic; and the European Theater during 1944-1945, including
scenes of the Allied forces in combat, effects of the war on lives and property in Britain, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and
Germany, and the liberation of German concentration camps and of Allied and German prisoners of war. Includes photographs
of various Allied and German military and political leaders.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Frederick M. Sammis, Jr. collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1946.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
Depicts various scenes from the German occupation of Memel; the Polish campaign; the Russo-Finnish war; the German air and
rocket offensive against Great Britain; naval warfare in the Atlantic; and the European Theater during 1944-1945, including
scenes of the Allied forces in combat, effects of the war on lives and property in Britain, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and
Germany, and the liberation of German concentration camps and of Allied and German prisoners of war. Includes photographs
of various Allied and German military and political leaders.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Prisoners of war--Pictorial works.
Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940--Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945--Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.