This is a microfiche edition of approximately 60,000 pages of newsreaders' scripts for the period 1939-1945. It allows insight into contemporary reactions to the War.
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CRL's news collection and its activities to ensure the preservation of news worldwide combine to ensure its members have unequaled access to this primary source of information. CRL holds over 12,000 newspaper titles, over 10,000 of which are non-U.S. In many cases the holdings are extensive and often are the longest or most complete holdings in existence. All newspapers can be searched in CRL's catalog.
Major categories within the news collection include:
- African American newspapers
- Civilian Conservation Corp. Camp papers
- Underground and alternative press
- U.S. Ethnic newspapers
- U.S. newspapers
CRL also holds collections of scripts and reports from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc, Foreign Broadcast Information Service and the Voice of America.
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The Center's holdings of these reports in microfiche begin with 1974-1985. Beginning with 1983, the fiche is issued in the following area editions: Eastern Europe; Far East; Middle East, Africa, and Latin America; Soviet Union; Monitoring report.
University Microfilms, U.K.
1974-1986
This set complements the "Underground and Alternative Press" and "The Left in Britain" collections by offering contemporary "grass-roots" and radical literature published in Britain.
Primary Source Microfilm
This set includes microfilm of reports of foreign broadcasts monitored by CBS.
Library of Congress
Aug. 28, 1939-May 23, 1945
The set is a collection of translations of news and commentary from broadcasts, news agency transmissions and occasionally from newspapers and periodicals. The entries for these reports follow:
Sept. 4, 1941-1995
This set supplements UMI's Underground newspaper collection by adding missing issues and other titles from the holdings in the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
University Microfilms International
This set contains the political diaries, 1911-1928 and correspondence, 1870-1932 of Charles Prestwich Scott, the editor of the Guardian.
Adam Matthew Publications
1870-1932
The initial compilation of this fiche and microfilm set covered titles from 1961-1972. Since then and continuing to date, an annual update has been issued with additional holdings and titles.
Harvester
1961+
This is a collection of underground newspapers originally compiled by the Underground Press Syndicate. Most of the titles are published in the U.S., but some are from Canada, Latin America and Europe.
Micro Photo
1963-1985
This is a microfilm set of Voice of American broadcast scripts from the U.S. Information Agency for the period 1953-1980.
Library of Congress
1953-1980
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