06 Jan 2003

The Gordon W. Prange Collection (1945-1949)
University Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Self-description: "The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive collection in existence of publications issued in Japan during the immediate post-World War II years, 1945-1949. The Collection comprises virtually everything published on all subjects during this period -- books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, news agency photos, political posters, maps and related archival materials. The Collection includes: * 17,000 newspaper titles * 75,000 books, pamphlets * 10,000 news agency photos * 13,000 magazine titles * 90 posters * 640 maps The contents of the Prange Collection [now indexed online by The Institute of 20th Century Media, Japan (http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~m20th/) - ed.] once constituted the files of the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD), an operating unit of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers' (SCAP) Press, Publication and Broadcast Division. Between 1945 and 1949, the CCD was responsible for reviewing all Japanese publications to identify violations of the Code for the Japanese Press. When violations were identified by CCD examiners, censorship action was taken. The Collection contains approximately 600,000 pages of censorship documents."
Site contents: Introduction; History; Newspapers; Magazines; Books; Personal Collections; Preservation; Guides to the Collections; Access [so far, there is no online access to the materials - ed.]; Reproduction; Related Links (The National Diet Library of Japan, The National Archives and Records Administration, Norman Ross Publishing, The MacArthur Memorial); Japanese Site.
[Information about the Collection - ed.]
URL http://www.lib.umd.edu/PRC/splash.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.lib.umd.edu/PRC/splash.html
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30