CONTENTdm Collection of Collections

- World War II: Iowa Press Clippings Digital Collection
- During World War II, staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa collected, sorted, and filed more than 800,000 Iowa newspaper clippings documenting Iowa's war efforts both at home and on foreign soil. Though the original clippings are closed to...
- World War II; Iowa during World War II
- Frank J. Davis World War II Photographs
- Frank J. Davis’ frontline photographs portray a medical photographer’s life during World War II, including battlefield images from Washington, DC, Italy, France, and Saipan.
- World War II
- Historic Government Publications from World War II
- The Historic Government Publications from World War II contains 343 Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)...
- World War II; U.S. government; documents; GPO; wars
- Melvin C. Shaffer World War II Photographs
- The Melvin C. Shaffer World War II Photographs and images depict the indigenous populations and local conditions of North Africa, Italy/Southern France, and Germany from the years 1943 to 1945. Included are 19 images of Mt. Vesuvius that depict the...
- World War II; Mount Vesuvius; Italy; France: North Africa
- War Poster Collection
- This collection contains a selection of World War I and II posters from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division collections. Included are propaganda on purchasing war bonds and the importance of national security as well...
- War posters; World War I; World War II; United War Work Campaign, Inc.; War bonds; Food supply; Defense industry; Marine Corp; Enlisting; Nursing;
- Alliance Memory
- The Alliance Memory project, funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant, is a joint venture of Rodman Public Library, the Alliance Historical Society, Alliance City Schools, Negro History Club, Haines House, and...
- Ohio history; World War II; Airplanes
- Topaz Camp
- This online archive contains photographs, works of art, and other documents associated with Topaz camp, one of ten remote internment camps used by the government and US Army to inter Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. More than...
- Internment camps; World War II; Japanese Americans; Topaz; Concentration camps; Relocation centers; Evacuation; Civil rights; Prison camps
- Japanese American Student Relocation Council Records
- The National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was created by university administrators as a means of relocating Japanese American college students to other universities and colleges away from the West coast during World War II, and to...
- World War II; students; Japanese Americans; relocation
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
- The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Collection represents the official archive of the post-war organization of the WASP of World War II, donated to Texas Woman’s University in 1992 and added to by members who served in the Women’s...
- Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS); Women Flying Training Detachment (WFTD); Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP); Army Air Corps; Army Air bases; Sweetwater, Texas; General Henry “Hap” Arnold; Nancy Harkness Love; Jacqueline Cochran;...
- Kooskia Internment Camp Scrapbook
- The Kooskia (pronounced KOOS-key) Internment Camp is an obscure and virtually forgotten World War II detention facility that was located in a remote area of north central Idaho, 30 miles from the town of Kooskia, and 6 miles east of the hamlet of...
- Japanese Americans; World War II; Internment Camps; Idaho;
- William E. (Bill) Shemorry Collection
- Williston State College Foundation received the William E. Shemorry Collection from Shemorry's family following his death. The Foundation entered into an agreement with the State Historical Society to house the collection and funded a Project...
- North Dakota; Williston (N.D.); Agriculture; Architecture; Missouri River; Weather; Winter; Floods; Shemorry, Bill, 1914-2004; Frontier and pioneer life; Oil wells; Petroleum industry; World War II; Portraits; Firefighting; Fires;
- Braceros in Oregon
- This photograph collection documents the activities of Oregon's Bracero workers, Mexican citizens that were allowed to work as farm laborers throughout the U.S. during World War II. Under the Braceros Program more than 15,000 Mexican men worked on...
- Migrant farm work; U.S. Labor history; Agriculture; Farm labor; Mexican immigrants; Braceros;
- Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library
- The collections in this Digital Library are largely composed of documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections. Included are WWII operational documents, student's theses, and items pertaining to the history of Fort Leavenworth. The...
- Historical events; Military operations; Military organization; War; Military intelligence; Tactical warfare; Operational warfare; Fort Leavenworth; Kansas; U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; World War II; United States Army; Japan; Italy;...
- Turning Points in Wisconsin History
- The Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives collections include approximately three million photographs, negatives, films, cartoons, lithographs, posters, and ephemeral materials from private, business, and governmental sources. Although we...
- Original documents; Lesson plans; Classroom activities; Background essays on key historical events; Early Native Peoples; Early explorers; Traders & settlers; Territory to statehood; Immigration; Civil War era; Native Peoples; Effigy mounds; First...
- World War II Historical Film Collection
- This collection consists of short films and news clips, primarily in black and white, documenting Allied operations and activities during WWII. In addition to footage of campaigns in Europe and in the Pacific, the films document activities on the...
- Aerial photography; Aeronautics; African American soldiers; Air defenses; Air raid wardens; Air Warfare; Aircraft carriers; Bombing, Aerial; Chemical warfare; Civics; Civil defense; Czechoslovakia; Germany ; Imperialism; Incendiary bombs; Japan; ;...
- American Occupation of Japan, Voices of the Key Participants
- The Pacific Basin Institute produced a 10-part documentary series The Pacific Century, in 1993. This collection contains digitized video from Part 5, "Reinventing Japan," which focuses on post-World War II Japan. Key figures of the American...
- Oral history; Communism--1945; Constitutional history; Emperors--Japan; Japan--History, Military--1945; Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952--Personal narratives; Japan--Politics and government--1945; Japan--Social conditions--1945;...
- Button Pin and Ribbon Collection (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
- The button, pin and ribbon collection currently contains over 1,400 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual peace activists and peace organizations. Items date from...
- Abortion; Labor; Africa; Middle East; African-Americans; Military Budget; Agriculture; Nuclear Energy; American Flag; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Anti-Nuclear Movement; Political Campaigns; Arbitration, International; Pro-Choice; Arms Race; Protest...
- O. James Fox Collection
- With his poems and photographs, O. James Fox poignantly depicted what he saw as he served as an eyewitness to one neighborhood in Indianapolis during the post-World War II period. Although urban renewal and an interstate belt have altered and...
- Black history; Urban culture; Indianapolis history
- University of Iowa Campus Maps Digital Collection
- This digital collection of maps from course catalogs and other archival sources documents the growth of the University of Iowa throughout the 20th century. Early items include an 1893 pacing survey of what is now the Pentacrest and Sanborn fire...
- Universities & colleges
- Arnold Clayton Watkins Collection, 1942-1945
- The digital collection contains photographs collected by Arnold Clayton Watkins of Pittsburg, Kansas, during his service in the United States Tenth Army Air Force Photo Intelligence Detachment in World War II. Watkins was attached to the Ninth Army...
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Aerial photographs; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Photographs; United States. Army Air Forces--History--Photographs; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations,...