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Title: United States Office of War Information miscellaneous records
Dates: 1941-1945
Collection Number: XX454
Creator: United States. Office of War Information
Collection Size:
8 manuscript boxes
2.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Reports, press releases, memoranda, clippings, and photographs, relating to regulation of the wartime economy in the United
States, and to background information on various countries during World War II and dissemination of American propaganda. Includes
a study entitled "Chronology of Adolf Hitler's Life" (1944), prepared as a reference source for the Office of War Information
staff.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Collection is open for research.
Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], United States Office of War Information miscellaneous records, [Box number], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives
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.
American governmental agency for dissemination of war information and propaganda during World War II.
Scope and Content of Collection
Reports, press releases, memoranda, clippings, and photographs, relating to regulation of the wartime economy in the United
States, and to background information on various countries during World War II, and to dissemination of American propaganda.
Includes a study entitled "Chronology of Adolf Hitler's Life" (1944), prepared as a reference source for the Office of War
Information staff.
Records of the Office of War Information [OWI], Record Group 208, National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/208.html
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
National socialism.
Propaganda, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.