Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Collection of Material About World War I
- Dates:
- 1914-1933
- Extent:
- 1.5 linear feet 3 boxes. 5 oversize boxes.
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of Material About World War I (Collection 501). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of miscellaneous books, pamphlets, newspapers, photographs, maps, scrapbooks, and ephemera relating to American and European civil and military participation in World War I. Includes California War Bulletin, American Legion Weekly, J'ai vu, Mehun News, L'echo des Guitonnes, and London Times History of the War. Also includes a complete file of The Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the American expeditionary forces, printed in France from February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919. Posters from this collection are in Poster Collection 95.
Portions of this collection are in French, German and Italian.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Books.
- Pamphlets.
- Ephemera, photographs, maps.
- Newspapers and weeklies.
- Scrapbooks.
- The First World War: a Photographic History, ed. by Laurence Stallings
- San Francisco newspapers and clippings about the end of the war.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- DACS
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- World War, 1914-1918.
Newspapers. - Places:
- Paris (France).
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- Online finding aid last updated 2017 September 6.
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2017-09-06T13:59-0700
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of Material About World War I (Collection 501). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988