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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

06 Dec 1999
3star
The Gordon W. Prange Collection
McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Self-description: "The Prange Collection is the most comprehensive collection of Japanese-language materials dating from the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952. The Collection comprises virtually everything published on all subjects during the first four years of the Occupation, 1945-1949; it includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, and related archival materials. The holdings of the Collection are vast and extremely rare and cover virtually all subject areas. The Collection includes: 82,000 books and pamphlets; 16,000 newspaper titles; 640 maps; 13,000 magazine titles; 2,000 newspaper photos; 90 posters. The Collection also contains approximately 600,000 pages of censorship documents, as well as extensive holdings of news dispatches (700,000 pages)."
Site contents: The Importance of the Prange Collection; Use of Books, Manuscripts and Archives; Collection Availability; Guides to the Collection; Preserving the Prange Collection.
URL http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/PRC/prange.html
Link suggested by: Charles C. Kolb (ckolb@neh.gov)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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