Register of the Rudolph Altrocchi Papers, 1900-1945

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Phone: (650) 723-3563

Fax: (650) 725-3445

Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Register of the Rudolph Altrocchi Papers, 1900-1945

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Descriptive Summary

Title: Rudolph Altrocchi Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1900-1945

Collection number: 55001

Creator: Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1882-1953

Collection Size: 3 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes (1.3 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Correspondence, office diary, reports, speeches, military orders, newspaper clippings, postcards, posters, sheet music, and printed matter, relating to American war propaganda work in Italy and Lyons, France.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection open for research.

Publication Rights

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Rudolph Altrocchi Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Access Points

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.

Propaganda, American.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States--Armed Forces.

Biographical Note

1882, October 31	born, Florence, Italy
1908	A.B., Harvard
1914	Ph.d., Harvard
1918, June-Sept.	director of oral propaganda in Italy. American Bureau of Public Information, Rome
1918-1919	2d lt., Infantry, Liaison Service, A.E.F., Lyons, France
1915-1927	assistant professor and associate professor of Italian, University of Chicago
1928-1947	professor of Italian, University of California

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, office diary, reports, speeches, military orders, newspaper clippings, postcards, sheet music, and printed matter, relating to American war propaganda work in Italy and Lyons, France.

Container List

Box 1

Office diary of Liaison Service, A.E.F., Lyons, France, May 1918-April 1919

Correspondence, 1915-1945

Correspondence, undated

Letters from Henry L. Stimson, 1912 and 1929

Letters of introduction

Form letters

Box 2

Liberty Loan Drive

Maps

Membership and award certificates

Mementos

Military Training Camp, Plattsburg, N.Y. (1916)

Newspaper clippings

Orders, travel certificates, and passports

Pamphlets and printed matter

Box 3

Poetry

Postcards

Programs, announcements and posters

Receipts for expense accounts

Reports, speeches, notes, letters to editors

Sheet music

Speakers campaign

War ration book

Photographs

Envelope A

16 photos of the staff of the American bureau of Public Information, Rome, Italy, 1918 and of military burials at Lyons, France, 1918-1919. 7 photos of other scenes including air flights at Campo de Marte in 1910, Queen Margherita of Italy in 1898 or 1899, and postcards,

1 photo of troops of the A.E.F. in military parade in France 1919

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