UNT Rare Book & Texana Collections

                   
Rare Book and Texana Collections  Willis Library Room 437     

Curator, Jennifer Sheehan JSheehan@library.unt.edu 

Assistant to the Curator, Edward Hoyenski Ehoyensk@library.unt.edu

It is important to bear in mind when using UNT Rare Book and Texana Collections that not everything is in the Library's online catalog.  There is a backlog of material to be catalogued and some of it may be useful to you in your research.  So be sure you tell Jennifer or Edward what you are working on so that they can give you access to materials that otherwise would be unknown to you.  In many cases, both the UNT Archives and the Rare Book and Texana Collections have finding aids to help locate hard-to-find or uncatalogued material.

World War I:

Posters:
The following is a description of the UNT Libraries posters collection from http://digital.library.unt.edu/browse/collection/wwpc/
The Rare Book & Texana Collections includes among its holdings a collection of over 800 original World War I and World War II posters. The World War I posters include a number of French examples, while the World War II group consists primarily of American home front posters. War bonds, rationing, enlistment, security, and morale are all topics treated by these artworks. The collection includes posters by such famous artists as Normal Rockwell, Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), and Boris Artzybasheff.

• Periodicals:
  Le Miroir. no. 88 (1915: Aug 1)-no. 192 (1917:July 20) (other volumes promised).
  Illustrated war news (London, England).
  v.1 pt.1. (1914:Aug 12) - v.2 pt.24 (1915:Jan 20);
  v.4 pt.37 (1915:Apr 21) - v.4 pt.48 (1915:Jul 7);
  v.6 pt.61 (1915:Oct 6) - v.8 pt.96 (1916:Jun 7).
  Harper’s Weekly complete(?) to Dec 1915.
  Edinburg Review complete run.
  McClures to 1920.
  
  Books: Various books about the era, biographies, autobiographies, etc.
  
  Documents:
  Discharge papers; notices; Treaty of Versailles (1919 printing).
  
  Artifacts:
  War bond pins.
    

• World War II:
    
  Posters
  The following is a description of the UNT Libraries posters collection from http://digital.library.unt.edu/browse/collection/wwpc/
  The Rare Book & Texana Collections includes among its holdings a collection of over 800 original World War I and World War II posters. The World War I posters include a number of French examples, while the World War II group consists primarily of American home front posters. War bonds, rationing, enlistment, security, and morale are all topics treated by these artworks. The collection includes posters by such famous artists as Normal Rockwell, Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), and Boris Artzybasheff.
  
  Nazi Propaganda: "button books," Various Nazi issued "cigarette album" books of photographs (including volumes on the 1936 Olympics and Hitler), publications on the military, Nazi events, individual issues of periodicals, and printings of Hitler speeches. Additional material is arriving.
  
  Periodicals:
  Guinea Gold (Northern Ed.) various issues
  Boston Herald (Liberty Overseas Edition) various issues;
  France Libre mostly complete run.
  Free World complete run(?)
  + Various issues of European and American newspapers about the war, primarily surrenders or major events.
  
  Books: Many.
  
  Letter collections - Cataloged:
  Anderson; Black; Cooper; Gangwer; Gaylor; Hawkins; Hughes, U.; Hughes W.; Jenkins; King; Lella; Mentzer; Shiret; Sims; Snavely; Snyder; Tersillo; Woods.
  
  Letter Collections – Uncataloged (not complete list):
  Smith; Walsh; Wheatly; Lloyd; Gibbins; Saviero; Hagerty; Woodley.
  
  Archival Collections:
  Merino (maps, letters, Italian POW materials, books, Italian propaganda postcards, etc.).
  Friedsam (ribbons, photograph).
  Webb (photographs).
  Fuller (photographs, artifacts, documents).
  
  Artifacts:
  Axis: Binoculars; Luftwaffe mess jam jar; coins; currency; stamps.
  Allied: Uniforms; boots; canteens; coins; currency; stamps;
  recordings; ration cards.