Register of the Rudolph Altrocchi papers

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Title: Rudolph Altrocchi papers
Date (inclusive): 1900-1945
Collection Number: 55001
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes (1.3 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator: Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1882-1953
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Rudolph Altrocchi Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Propaganda, American
World War, 1914-1918 -- Propaganda
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

box 1

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

box 1

Correspondence 1915-1945

box 1

Correspondence, undated

box 1

Letters from Henry L. Stimson 1912 1929

box 1

Letters of introduction

box 1

Form letters

box 2

Liberty Loan Drive

box 2

Maps

box 2

Membership and award certificates

box 2

Mementos

box 2

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

box 2

Newspaper clippings

box 2

Orders, travel certificates, and passports

box 2

Pamphlets and printed matter

box 3

Poetry

box 3

Postcards

box 3

Programs, announcements and posters

box 3

Receipts for expense accounts

box 3

Reports, speeches, notes, letters to editors

box 3

Sheet music

box 3

Speakers campaign

box 3

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

envelope mB

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