Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
Organization
Biography
The McCormick Library houses more than 235,000 of Northwestern University Library's most unusual and outstanding items and collections. The span of time and material types represented ranges from four-thousand year old Mesopotamian clay tablets to 19th century cobweb paintings to the most recent issues of feminist journals from around the world.
Formats collected include rare books and periodicals, manuscripts and archives, sound recordings, photographs, video/film, posters, prints, and realia.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Friedrich Ernst Auhagen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS110
Abstract
In September 1940, Dr. Friedrich Ernst Auhagen was arrested and called to testify before the Dies Commission in October regarding possible subversive Nazi activities. He was released, but kept under Justice Department surveillance until March 1941 when a federal grand jury issued an indictment against him for failing to register as a German agent. The articles, newspaper clippings and correspondence in the Friedrich Ernst Auhagen Collection were collected between 1939 and 1952 by Henry Pope,...
Dates:
1939-1952
Spanish Civil War Collection
Collection
Identifier: PS6
Abstract
This collection of photographs depicts the history and effects of the Spanish Civil War.
Dates:
1930-1947
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- Subject: World War, 1939-1945 X