Finding Aid for the Collection of Material About World War I, 1914-1933
LSC.0501
Finding aid prepared by Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575
(310) 825-4988
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Online finding aid last updated 2017 September 6.
Title: Collection of Material About World War I
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0501
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
3 boxes.
5 oversize boxes.
Date: 1914-1933
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.
Conditions on Use and Reproduction
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.
Conditions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Preferred Citation
[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.
Scope and Content
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.
Organization and Arrangement
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.
Items Removed from Collection
- Posters from this collection are in Poster Collection (Collection 95). Department of Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Newspapers.
Paris (France).
World War, 1914-1918.
Box 1-2
Books.
General Physical Description note: 32 items.
Ephemera, Photographs, Maps
Box 4, Folder 3
Ephemera: American, French.
Box 4, Folder 4
Ephemera: German. Currency, postcards.
Box 4, Folder 5
Ephemera: German. Political propaganda.
Box 4, Folder 9
Pamphlets: army personnel materials.
Box 4, Folder 11
Home front materials: Liberty Loan, Red Cross.
Box 4, Folder 12
State Councils of National Defense.
Box 4, Folder 13
Four-minute men talks. Committee on Public Information.
Box 5, Folder 1-8
Newspapers:
1911, 1915, 1919.
Box 5, Folder 12
Time Magazine background of the war.
Box 5, Folder 13
War record of the
Chicago Tribune.
Box 5, Folder 16
London Times History of the War.
Box 6, Folder 2
Bulletin des Armies de la Republique.
Box 6, Folder 3
Miscellaneous French newspapers.
Box 6, Folder 4
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings.
Box 6, Folder 5
The Hohenzollerns Through German Eye.
Box 7
1. Dokumente aus grosser ziet.
Box 7
3.
The Stars & Stripes; a complete file.
February 8, 1918-June 13, 1919.
Box 8
The First World War. A Photographic History. Edited by Laurence Stallings. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1933.
Box 9
San Francisco newspapers and clippings about the end of the war.
Box 10
Mounted poster of poem by William B. Levis called On to Berlin. Dedicated to the Allied Forces by an American. Paris,
April, 1918.
General Physical Description note: 22 7/8 × 37.
Scope and Contents note
The poster is signed by Major General John J. Pershing, Major General James W. McAndrew, Marshal Foch, Marshal Joffre, and
David Lloyd George.
