Overview of the Louis P. Penningroth papers
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Overview of the Louis P. Penningroth papers
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Title: Louis P. Penningroth papers
Dates: 1911-1973
Collection Number: 93043
Creator: Penningroth, Louis P.
Collection Size:
5 manuscript boxes
(2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, financial records, reports, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to
Young Men's Christian Association aid to Allied prisoners of war in Austria, especially juvenile Russian prisoners; aid to
repatriated Russian prisoners at the end of World War I; release of American and British prisoners of war in Russia; and conditions
in Russia during the Russian Civil War.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Louis P. Penningroth papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1993.
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.
American clergyman; Young Men's Christian Association worker in Europe, 1915-1919.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, financial records, reports, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to
Young Men's Christian Association aid to Allied prisoners of war in Austria, especially juvenile Russian prisoners; aid to
repatriated Russian prisoners at the end of World War I; release of American and British prisoners of war in Russia; and conditions
in Russia during the Russian Civil War.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
World War, 1914-1918--War work.
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons.
Prisoners of war.
World War, 1914-1918--Austria.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Juvenile.
Young Men's Christian associations.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Soviet Union--History--Allied intervention, 1918-1920.