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Items with subject 'International Relations'
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European First World War Postcards
by Unknown (circa 1915)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These 25 European postcards, seven of which contain correspondence, relate to various aspects and perspectives during the First World War and likely date between 1914 and 1918. All of the postcards contain illustrations and are primarily in French. While some depict battle scenes or military propaganda, others are satirical.
Frank Dunbaugh Papers
by Dunbaugh, Frank (1919, 1945)
5 folders (0.5 linear feet)
The Frank Dunbaugh Papers document the activity of a Major in the United States Army immediately following the Second World War. Dunbaugh commanded the Allied Military Government (AMG) in the Hersbruck district of post-war Germany. He discussed how his unit identified former Nazi party members, the interrogation of S.S. officers at a castle, a riot in a Polish refugee camp, the mistreatment of civilians and rape of women, American soldiers being ambushed, American G.I.'s mistreating local civilians and German police, encounters with Russian officers, and meeting concentration and labor camp survivors.
French Anti-Kaiser Postcards
by Unknown (1914)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These 39 French postcards were created in 1914 and depict the German kaiser in various cartoonish and satirical ways.
French Merci Train Gifts
by Unknown (1948 – 1949)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
The French Merci Train gifts were sent on the French freighter Magellan inside 49 antique, narrow gauge boxcars for each of the United States (one split between Hawaii and District of Columbia) as gratitude for the American Friendship Train that toured the United States to raise $40 million worth of food and clothing for French people. In 1949, Mary Laura Francis was sent from the school, then called State Teachers College, to collect the gifts selected for Salisbury University.
German and Nazi Stereoviews
by Deutsches Reich (1937 – 1946)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These German and Nazi Stereoviews consist of two separate collections of stereoview photographs that were collected by a U.S. Army colonel. Included are two stereoview finders. The first collection of photographs depict the Third Reich's military might and Nazi Party ceremonial events. These 73 photographs, of which there were originally 100, are described in German on the versos, which was translated by the wife of the Colonel who collected the stereoviews. The other collection consists of 36 photographs that show the United States-occupied zone of Germany, which are identified in English.
Guyanese Political Publications
by Guyana Institute for Social Research and Action; Ministry of Information and Culture; Ministry of National Development; People's Progressive Party (1952 – 1977)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These 11 publications were printed between 1952 and 1977 by South American (particularly Guyanese) groups such as the People's Progressive Party, Ministry of Information and Culture, Ministry of National Development, and the Guyana Institute for Social Research and Action. The contents relate to Caribbean politics and date around the time Guyana gained independence in 1966.
Japanese Military Scenes Lithographs
by Empire of Japan (1942)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These 20 lithograph prints from 1942 depict Second World War military scenes from the Japanese perspective. Annotations were made on the verso of several prints, which explain the scene from the Japanese perspective. Scenes depicted include: the naval battle at Java with Imperial Japanese Naval Forces attacking the U.S.-Dutch combined fleet, Japanese warplanes over Singapore, Borneo Campaign and Tarakan Island, attack on Tarakan Island, Japanese destroyers firing at enemy cruisers, night operations at the Battle of Savo Island, capture of American prisoners on Wake Island, naval battle at Java Sea, Japanese submarine torpedo attack against the U.S. carrier Lexington West of Hawaii, Japanese fleet's arrival at Singapore, naval battle off Bali Island, and operations at the Singapore Naval port shortly after its capture.
Japanese Prints and Books
by Empire of Japan (circa 1881 – 1945)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
This collection consists of various Japanese prints and books that primarily date during the Second World War, but include items from 1881 and the early twentieth century. Included is one picture album containing 60 lithographs that depict war caricatures from the Second World War, a woodblock print picture postcard set from shortly after the Second World War that depicts the United States' occupation of Japan, a circa 1907 palmistry, physiognomy, and divination guidebook with illustrations, a world heritage shrines and temples of Nikko picture map from the 1920s, a set of three encyclopedias that document ancient Japanese history from 1881, and 15 prints that depict Japanese propaganda art.
Japanese Second World War Commemorative Postcards
by Postal Forwarding Bureau of Japan (circa 1942)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These three postcards were issued by the Postal Forwarding Bureau of Japan during the Second World War and commemorate early military victories: the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941, the capture of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Wong Neichong on December 19, 1941, and the Fall of Singapore on February 17, 1942.
Jeanne Severance Letters
by Severance, Jeanne (1945 – 1962)
4 folders (0.4 linear feet)
This collection consists of letters from Jeanne Severance, a Red Cross volunteer, to Martha and Constance Greene from 1945 to 1946. Severance wrote from and reported on events in the many places she served, which included France, India, China, Myanmar, and Mexico. Several letters were censored by the United States Army. Also included are photographs of the Greenes in 1962 and some newspaper clippings. At the time, the Greenes had opened the office of Martha Greene real estate company on Long Island in Montauk, New York; there are several pictures of Martha in front of the original offices. The transcription of the letters is attached.
Major Nutter Jerome Wimbrow III Collection
by Howard, John D. (1973 – 2018)
2 folders (0.2 linear feet)
The Major Nutter Jerome Wimbrow III Collection documents the events of Nutter Wimbrow III's death in 1972 during the bombing of Hanoi, North Vietnam. Materials include copies of official communication from the Defense Intelligence Agency, two books, a copy of a magazine article, and a brief biography of Wimbrow by Brigadier General John D. Howard.
Pavlick Tschepotkin and Elvira Christophornia Letters
by Christophornia, Elvira; Tschepotkin, Pavlick (1920 – 1923)
2 folders (0.2 linear feet)
These letters were written between 1920 and 1923 by Pavlick Tschepotkin and Elvira Christophornia, White Russian refugees originally from Archangel (Arkhangelsk), and later translated into English and transcribed. The transcribed letters are attached.