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Title: Percy Brown papers
Dates: 1914-1967
Collection Number: 88033
Creator: Brown, Percy, 1885-
Collection Size:
1 manuscript box, 1 oversize box.
(0.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Printed and draft writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia, relating primarily to journalistic coverage of military
activities on the Western front during World War I; conditions in Ruhleben prison camp, Germany, during the war; and the rescue
of the icebound Soviet ship Solovei in 1920.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Percy Brown papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1988.
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 at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
British journalist and photographer; German prisoner of war during World War I.
Scope and Content of Collection
Printed and draft writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia, relating primarily to journalistic coverage of military
activities on the Western front during World War I; conditions in Ruhleben prison camp, Germany, during the war; and the rescue
of the icebound Soviet ship Solovei in 1920.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Ruhleben (Prison camp : Germany)
Solovei (Ship)
World War, 1914-1918--Campaign--Western Front.
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons.
Prisoners of war
Journalists.