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Preliminary Guide to the Great War Collection
Bernath Mss 20
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Title: Great War Collection
Dates: ca. 1910-1922
Bulk Dates: 1914-1918
Collection number: Bernath Mss 20
Collection Size:
7 linear feet
(4 records containers and 12 oversize boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Much of the material in the collection relates to British servicemen and units, but Americans, Australians, and some Germans
also are represented. Included are diaries, correspondence, documents, maps, photographs, reports, and some printed material.
The approximately 2,000 photographs and picture postcards (loose and in albums and scrapbooks) include many images of France,
but also other areas such as Egypt, England, German South West Africa, Iraq, and Palestine.
Physical location: Boxes 1-3, 8-15 (SRLF); boxes 4-7 (Del Norte); boxes 16-17 (Del Norte Oversize); boxes 18-19 (Annex 2).
Languages:
English, French, German
None. Majority of materials stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Great War Collection. Bernath Mss 20. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Multiple acquisitions, mainly purchase latter 1960s-early 1970s.
Much of the material in the collection relates to British servicemen and units, but Americans, Australians, and some Germans
also are represented. Included are diaries, correspondence, documents, maps, photographs, reports, and some printed material.
The approximately 2,000 photographs and picture postcards (loose and in albums and scrapbooks) include many images of France,
but also other areas such as Egypt, England, German South West Africa, Iraq, and Palestine.
The collection also contains a number of monographs and runs of serials which have been cataloged separately and which can
be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns.