The Library of Congress has launched a new World War I collection portal.
You can read about it via World War I: Online Offerings.
Today we
launched a comprehensive
portal to its extensive holdings on the subject of World War I (1914–1918)
as part of our commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the U.S. involvement
in the war. The portal is a one-stop destination page for digitized versions of
many of these assets.
These
remarkable collections include recruitment and wartime information posters,
photos from the front, manuscripts and papers of prominent figures such as
General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, newspapers that provided the first draft
of the war’s history, maps of campaigns and battle lines, sound recordings of
prominent leaders of the era, war-related sheet music, even early film
treasures.
Along with
extensive access to these rare materials, the portal will include links to the
online version of the Library’s major new exhibition, “Echoes of the
Great War: American Experiences of World War I,” which opens April 4.
So much material, so little time! I did spend a bit of time looking into Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918 to 1919 and Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914 to 1919.
Which collections caught your eye?
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