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Title Work

Title No: 13096

Title: Documenting war

Medium: Artifact; Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph; Paper

Original Summary:
An exhibition of war-related materials co-curated by the Film and Media Archive, University Archives, Rare Books, and the Modern Graphic History Library. 

"Documenting War"  was presented in conjuction with an exhibition featuring the photography and words of independent journalist, Brian Palmer, "Improvisation as Strategy: Scenes from an Iraq Embed." The exhibits were featured in the Grand Staircase Lobby in Olin Library and in the Ginkgo Reading Room.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Notes:
For a full listing of items displayed, including items from University Archives, the Modern Graphic History Library, and Rare Books, consult the exhibition cards. 

Other materials from the Film and Media Archive used in the exhibit, but not included in this record are: "A Pictorial History of Black Soldiers in the United States" edited by Jesse J. Johnson; "Provisional Machine-Gun Firing Manual"  by the United States War Department; "Reporting America At War: An Oral History" compiled by Michelle Ferrari with commentary by James Tobin; "Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II" by Margaret T. Bixler; "Ammunition General" by the United States Army; "'The Good War': An Oral History of World War Two" by Studs Terkel; "Vietnam: A History" by Stanley Karnow; "The Media At War : The Press and the Persian Gulf Conflict : A Report of the Gannett Foundation" by Everette E. Dennis...[et al.]; "The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History" by William Loren Katz; "Yank: The Story of World War II As Written by the Soldiers" by the editors of Yank, the Army Weekly;  Photos from "369th Regiment World War I and World War II snapshots (369th Gulf War: Binder #13) from the William Miles Collection. 

Items x0

Contents x8

Seq NoTitle NoTitle
16709Portrait of Edward R. Murrow at CBS studios
26708Ernie Pyle at his typewriter
36711Charles Ellis reads Ernie Pyle's memorial, Okinawa, May 4, 1945
46478American journalist Martha Gellhorn with rifle, 1940
56511Bodies of three dead American soldiers lying in the sand on shoreline near half-sunken landing craft on Buna Beach after a Japanese ambush attack.
65798The big type war of the yellow kids
76139Members of the 369th Infantry Regiment
813097Documenting war exhibition cards


Contained By x1

Title NoTitle
5775Film and Media Archive exhibitions