Partial Inventory of the George Sylvester Viereck miscellaneous papers

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Title: George Sylvester Viereck miscellaneous papers
Date (inclusive): 1903-1960
Collection Number: XX273
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes, 23 oversize boxes (23.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, and clippings relating to literature, German-American relations, American foreign policy during World War I, and the trial of G. S. Viereck as a pro-German propagandist in the United States during World War II. Includes correspondence with, and writings by, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
Creator: William, German Emperor, II, 1859-1941
Creator: Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], George Sylvester Viereck miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

German-American poet, playwright and journalist.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, writings, and clippings relating to literature, German-American relations, American foreign policy during World War I, and the trial of G. S. Viereck as a pro-German propagandist in the United States during World War II. Includes correspondence with, and writings by, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Journalists
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Neutrality -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
Germany -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany
German literature
Propaganda, German -- United States

box 1

Material not yet described.

box 2

Material not yet described.

box 24

Scrapbook 1 "Newspaper and Magazine Articles" 1922-1928

box 20

Scrapbook 2 "Personal News and Newspaper and Magazine Articles" 1927-1934

box 21

Scrapbook 3 "My First Two Thousand Years" undated

box 23

Scrapbook 4 "The Saturday Evening Post"

box 22

Scrapbook 5 1929-1933

box 22

Scrapbook 6 "Liberty"

box 22

Scrapbook 7 "German American Economic Bulletin"

box 21

Scrapbook 8 "Downtown Office" 1934

box 25

Scrapbook 9 "The Kaiser on Trial"

box 19

Scrapbook 10 "Liberty" 1938

box 23

Scrapbook 11 "Personal" 1938-1940

box 25

Scrapbook 12 "Personal" 1941-1942

box 19

Scrapbook 13 1942

box 3

Scrapbook 14: "The House of the Vampire, 1907" 1903-1917

box 4

Scrapbook 15: "Reviews of 'The Vampire' and 'Confessions of a Barbarian,' 1910" 1909-1911

box 5

Scrapbook 16: "Poetry" 1912-1913

box 6

Scrapbook 17: "Political V"

box 14

Scrapbook 18: "Political VIII" 1918

box 7

Scrapbook 19: "The Fatherland, I"

box 8

Scrapbook 20: "The Fatherland, II" 1914

box 9

Scrapbook 21: "Political II" 1914

box 10

Scrapbook 22: Untitled 1915

box 11

Scrapbook 23: "Symposium of the Pro-German Propaganda Scandal Exposed by the New York World on August 15, 1915" 1915

box 12

Scrapbook 24: "Political IV 1914-1918

box 13

Scrapbook 25: "Political VII" 1916-1918

box 18

Scrapbook 26: Untitled 1919

box 18

Scrapbook 27: Untitled 1881-1918

box 15

Scrapbook 28: "Political IX" 1918-1920

box 16

Scrapbook 29: "Political Clippings" 1924

box 17

Scrapbook 30: Untitled 1927-1928

box 17

Scrapbook 31: Liberty 1927-1931

Scope and Contents note

Contains clippings from Liberty magazine.
box 17

Scrapbook 32: The Saturday Evening Post 1926-1928