World War I and World War II periodicals and ephemera collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes pamphlets, booklets, posters, periodicals, and literature regarding the United States involvement and sentiments of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Collection consists primarily of WWII materials with a small number of items related to WWI and a significant portion of Vietnam War materials.
Among the WWII materials, many originate from the organization Committee to Defend America (1940-1942). Also represented are newsletters from Japanese American incarceration camps from the Topaz, UT, Gila River, AZ, Tule Lake,CA, and Heart Mountain, WY sites. Notably from the Heart Mountain Sentinel periodicals is a comic strip created by artist and former Hollywood animator, Bennie Nobori. The satirical cartoon features the adventures of Zootsuo, a young boy at an incarceration camp.
Dates
- Creation: 1914-1970
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
The materials in this collection are from the University of Southern California’s former Von KleinSmid Library for International & Public Affairs, whose archival materials have since been transferred to Special Collections.
Extent
13.875 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
French
Hebrew
Japanese
Russian
Abstract
This collection includes pamphlets, booklets, posters, periodicals, and literature regarding the United States involvement and sentiments of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
Processing Information
Collection is partially processed.
Subject
Genre / Form
Topical
- Japanese American newspapers -- Archival resources
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Archival resources
- Peace movements
- Propaganda, Anti-communist -- Archival resources
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Archival resources
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Archival resources
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Archival resources
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- Title
- Finding Aid for the World War I and World War II ephemera collection
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2023 February: Finding Aid updated by Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated with additional materials
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu