U.S. Embassy Stockholm Public Exhibition Nobel Park, Stockholm, Sweden (June 22-July 27, 2021)
“TELLING AMERICA’S STORY IN A TIME OF WAR: THE U.S. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION’S STOCKHOLM OUTPOST, 1942–1945”
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Revised June 29, 2021)
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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES
Columbia University, Avery Library, New York, New York Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, Correspondence, 1885-1965
Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Los Angeles, California Frank Lloyd Wright Correspondence
Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
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Manuscripts and Archives Department - John Gordon Rideout was an architect and industrial designer whose papers and albums are archived at the Hagley Museum. Among the Rideout photographs are images of Karl Jensen when he worked at Taliesin.
Historisk Samling fra Besaettelsestiden/Museum of Southwest Jutland, Esbjerg, Denmark Collection of OWI Stockholm-related materials - Various issues of: foto revy (magazine), Over Atlanten (usually a magazine), Nyt over Atlanten (usually a newspaper) - Also "Bomber over Tyskland" (with a fake cover of the Danish national railroad timetable) (probably an OWI product).
Liberty Library Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Collection - Lot 9736 includes eight photographic prints of the exhibition America Builds (Amerika bygger). - Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information - This record group contains key sources that document OWI Stockholm’s accomplishments, including a 173-page report prepared by director Karl Jensen in August 1944, among other materials. Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations, 1911-1972 - This collection includes the film “Swedes in America.” “March of Time” Collection, 1934-1951, Outtakes from ‘March of Time’ Newsreels, 1934-1951
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Libraries, Government and Geographic Information Collection - The library’s WWII Poster Collection include over 300 World War II-era posters from various government agencies, including the OWI.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse, New York Marcel Breuer Papers - This collection includes a few pieces of correspondence and over a dozen photographs of the exhibition America Builds (Amerika bygger).
UK Ministry of Information Ministry of Information submits revision of Standard Plan of Propaganda for Sweden. Part 6B. Sweden. 02/03/1945. FO 371/48027-0002. English. Page 4 missing (British assessment of Stockholm OWI operation on Page 9.)
U.S. Department of State, Rosslyn, Virginia
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Office of Overseas Building Operations Archives
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut Frederic Prokosch Collection
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