Administrative Information
Provenance
Transfer from the Office of War Information, 1945.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
World War II Rumor Project collection was processed by Stephanie A. Hall with the assistance of Linda Sudmalis in 1996. The finding aid was revised, edited, and encoded in EAD3 by Glenn Gardner and Nora Yeh in 2011. The collection was digitized in 2019 and made available online in 2022. Hyperlinks to the digitized content were added to the finding aid by Carolina Restrepo in 2022. The finding aid front matter and template were updated by Farrah Cundiff.
Online Content
The World War II Rumor Project collection is digitized, and images are available to view on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.afc1945001.
The collection was transcribed as part of the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) in a campaign called "Information and Disinformation: The World War II Rumor Project." The transcription dataset is available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2022360466. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], World War II Rumor Project collection (AFC 1945/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.