The papers primarily document Gino Speranza's work as a journalist and foreign correspondent for Outlook and the New York Evening Post in Italy during the war and political and military attaché for the United States embassy in Rome from 1917 to 1919. The papers are comprised of writings, diaries, clippings, correspondence, reports, pamphlets, notes, photographs, and printed matter relating to Italian politics and diplomacy during World War I and in the postwar period.

Source: George E. Pozzetta. "Speranza, Gino Carlo," http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-01121.html; American National Biography Online Feb 2000. Accessed June 26, 2012.

15 manuscript boxes, 24 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (24.4 linear feet)

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Collection is open for research.