Fellers (Bonner Frank) papers: Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers served as military secretary and head of the psychological warfare drive against Japanese combat troops and was a member of General Douglas MacArthur’s staff from 1943 to 1946. Collection consists of speeches and writings, studies, reports, correspondence, memoranda, orders, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American propaganda and military activities in the Pacific Theater during World War II, the occupation of Japan, and postwar conservative political organizations in the United States, especially the Citizens Foreign Aid Committee.
Herz (Martin Florian) Collection of Propaganda Leaflets: American diplomat and ambassador to Bulgaria from 1974-1977. Collection contains North Vietnamese and Viet Cong propaganda directed at American soldiers in Vietnam from 1961-75.
Kirchner (Klaus) collection: Collector of propaganda who created a comprehensively illustrated set of reference books on World War II leaflets, flyers, pamphlets, and broadsides, which was published from 1972 to 2009. Collection consists of World War II Soviet propaganda broadsides, leaflets, and flyers, aimed at German troops and the German population. The material in this collection is originally from Kirchner's "Soviet Central Series", a leaflet campaign that continued to the very last day of World War II.
Linebarger (Paul M. A.) papers: Private secretary to P.M.W. Linebarger, Legal Adviser to the National Government of China, Nanking and Washington, D.C. who participated in the formation of the Office of War Information as a Far Eastern specialist. Collection contains diaries, correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to political conditions in China and elsewhere in the Far East, and to psychological warfare during and after World War II. Includes microfilm of P. M. A. Linebarger papers at the Hitotsubashi University Library, Tokyo.
Poster collection: Contains posters from many countries that relate to a broad range of topics in twentieth-century history. Many of the posters are propagandistic in nature, reflecting the different social and political conditions that were present at the time. Major events covered range from World Wars I and II, the Russian Revolution to the rise of communism in Eastern Europe.
Pronin (Alexander and Ethel) collection: Writer and professor of Russian Studies at California State University, Fresno for 28 years. Author: Russian Folk Arts, Byliny, Heroic Tales of Old Russia. Collection consists of writings, notes, printed matter, photographs, sound recordings, video recordings, and motion picture films relating to aspects of Russian and Soviet culture and history. The papers include materials of Pronin's father, Russian-American entomologist Georgii Pronin.
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Broadcast records: The records of the American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial and legal records, technical specifications, opinion survey data, serial issues, other publications, and microfilm relating to operations of Radio Free Europe in broadcasting to audiences in Eastern Europe and of Radio Liberty in broadcasting to audiences in the Soviet Union, as well as non-broadcast operations of RFE/RL's predecessor, the Free Europe Committee, Inc.
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