World War I
Founded in the aftermath of the First World War, the Hoover Institution has always placed special emphasis on collecting and preserving materials related to the conflict that shaped the 20th century. The perspective has always been truly international, as Hoover’s Russian holdings on the war, for example, outshine its American holdings in both volume and significance. The papers of General N.N. Golovin are of singular importance for the study of the Eastern front. The Kraftwagen Park 2 war journal shows the war from the perspective of a German mechanized unit. Numerous writings – both published and unpublished - document the war from the perspective of economics, finances, industry, civil society, humanitarian aid, relief organizations, gender, class and race. The World War I subject and pictorial collections are rich in documents and illustrative material on all geographic areas and all aspects of the war. Additional illustrative material may be found in the Imperial War Museum photographs and poster collection, although there are many other photographs available in the papers of individual units, participants and collectors. The library also holds an extensive and rare collection of delegation propaganda and other publications related to the Paris Peace Conference that ended the war.
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World War I Subject Collection
Printed matter, military documents, maps, and memorabilia
World War I Pictorial Collection
Photographs, cartoons, and postcards
N. N. Golovin Papers
General, Russian Imperial Army
Kraftwagen Park 2 War Journal
German military motor vehicle unit
American National Red Cross Records
Materials relating to relief work during and immediately after World War I
Commission for Relief in Belgium Records
Organization providing relief to Belgium
Imperial War Museum Photographs
Depicts activities of the British army and navy during World War I
Wellington House Publications
British Foreign Office propaganda from World War I
British Ministry of Information Library collection
Materials relating to World War I
Alfred Hermann Fried Papers
Austrian pacifist during World War I
Clelia Duel Mosher papers
Red Cross worker in France, 1917–19
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World War I Archival Collections World War i library materials
A Catalogue of Paris Peace Conference Delegation Propaganda In the Hoover War Library. Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1926
Chamberlin, Waldo. Industrial Relations In Wartime: Great Britain, 1914-1918: Annotated Bibliography of Materials In the Hoover Library On War, Revolution, and Peace. Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1940
Harper, Paula., and Marcia Cohn Growdon. War, Revolution, and Peace: Propaganda Posters From the Hoover Institution Archives, 1914-1945
Wedborn, Helena. Women In the First and Second World Wars: A Checklist of the Holdings of the Hoover Institution On War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1988
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