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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Howard Mowen and Edwin W. Polk Collections

 Series
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains the combination of World War II ephemera, photographs and publications collected by both Mowen and Polk.

Dates: 1904-1964; bulk 1918-1945; Other: Date acquired: 1986, 1988, 2010

Miscellaneous Ephemera

 Series
Identifier: Series 4
Scope and Contents

The Miscellaneous Ephemera series includes several small donations of materials made by various donors: WWII period maps and postcards from Germany and Eastern Europe and ephemera from the post-WWII American occupation of Japan (the former donated by WMU Librarian, Maira Bundza, and the latter donated by WMU alumnus (Class of 2012), Tyler Baker.

Dates: 1904-1964; bulk 1918-1945; Other: Date acquired: 1986, 1988, 2010

Miscellaneous war artifacts

 Item — Box 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Lieutenant Colonel Edward C. Van Haaften papers, 1917-1946, include letters by Edward C. Van Haaften during his World War I Army service, as an electrician, 102nd Aero Squad, American Expeditionary Forces; French motor repair manual; a letter written after active duty in World War II; numerous photographs from both World War I and World War II.

Dates: 1917-1945

WWII Propaganda and Print Collections

 Collection
Identifier: 04-exws_wwii
Abstract

Nazi-period German serials, photos and ephemera, as well as American and some North African serials, as well as ephemera. This collection also contains books (the books are cataloged individually and searchable through the WMU Libraries catalog: Library Search).

Dates: 1904-1964; bulk 1918-1945; Other: Date acquired: 1986, 1988, 2010