STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST.
LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
Karl Streckfuss donated the scrapbooks to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection in July 2003.
Dr. Crossen served on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine and compiled the scrapbooks during the course of the war. The scrapbooks provide a view of the war as it was seen during the period. Dr. Crossen compiled a large variety of sources which are listed below.
American Legion Magazine
Colliers Magazine
Fortune Magazine
The Literary Digest
The Illustrated London News
The Inter-American
The Junior Review
The Labor Tribune
Look Magazine
Minneapolis Sunday Tribune
News of the Nation
Newsweek Magazine
Saturday Evening Post
St. Louis Globe Democrat
St. Louis Post Dispatch
St. Louis Star Times
Steelways
Time Magazine
Yank
VOLUME LIST
Roll 1, Volume 1, 1936-1937
Roll 2, Volume 2, 1937
Roll 3, Volume 3, 1938
Roll 4, Volume 4, 1939
Roll 5, Volume 5, January 1, 1940-September 30, 1940
Roll 6, Volume 6, October 1, 1940-March 31, 1941
Roll 7, Volume 7, March 2, 1941-June 15, 1941
Roll 8, Volume 8, June 17, 1941-August 16, 1941
Roll 9, Volume 9, August 16, 1941-September 23, 1941
Roll 10, Volume 10, September-October 1941
Roll 11, Volume 11, October-November 1941
Roll 12, Volume 12, November-December 1941
Roll 13, Volume 13, January-March 1942
Roll 14, Volume 14, March-May 1942
Roll 15, Volume 15, May-June 1942
Roll 16, Volume 16, June-July 1942
Roll 17, Volume 17, July-August 1942
Roll 18, Volume 18, September-October 1942
Roll 19, Volume 19, October-November 1942
Roll 20, Volume 20, November-December 1942
Roll 21, Volume 21, January-February 1943
Roll 22, Volume 22, February-April 1943
Roll 23, Volume 23, April-May 1943
Roll 24, Volume 24, June-July, 1943
Roll 25, Volume 25, July-September 1943
Roll 26, Volume 26, September-October 1943
Roll 27, Volume 27, October-December 1943
Roll 28, Volume 28, December 1943-January 1944
Roll 29, Volume 29, January-March 1944
Roll 30, Volume 30, March-April 1944
Roll 31, Volume 31, April-May 1944
Roll 32, Volume 32, June 1944
Roll 33, Volume 33, July-August 1944
Roll 34, Volume 34, July-October 1944
Roll 35, Volume 35, October-December 1944
Roll 36, Volume 36, December 1944-February 1945
Roll 37, Volume 37, February-March 1945
Roll 38, Volume 38, March-April 1945
Roll 39, Volume 39, May 1945
Roll 40, Volume 40, June 1945
Roll 41, Volume 41, July 1945
Roll 42, Volume 42, July-August 1945
Roll 43, Volume 43, August-September 1945
Roll 44, Volume 44, September-October 1945
Roll 45, Volume 45, October-November 1945
Roll 46, Volume 46, November-December 1945
Roll 47, Volume 47, 1943-1945
Crossen, Dr. Henry, WWII Scrapbooks, Addenda, 1941-1945
The following boxes are stored off site. Please allow
3 business days for retrieval.
The following material was not microfilmed. It was removed from the scrapbooks before microfilming.
Collection of newspaper and magazine articles, and publications relating to the war.
Periodicals include: Life; Time; Colliers; Yank; National Geographic; Fortune;
United State News; St. Louis Globe-Democrat;
Saturday Evening Post; Natural History; Survey Graphics; Christianity and Crisis;
Hispanic-American Historical Review; Ciba Symposia;
Junior Review; Inter-American; News of China: Bible Society Record; Foreign Policy
Bulletin; Social Action; Review of World Affairs;
The Lamp (IStandard Oil); Plane Talk ( Vultee Consolidated Aircraft Corp.);
Science Newsletter; American Legion Magazine.
BOX 1 (044561)
Folder 1. 1941
A Letter from Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to Boys and Girls Across the Ocean, 1941
Folder 2. 1941
Folder 3, 1941
Folder 4. 1941
Our Taxes and What they Buy, Stewart, Maxwell S.
Folder 5. 1942
Rubber's Return to the Western Hemisphere, Litchfield, P.W.
Folder 6. 1942
Folder 7. 1942
Folder 8. 1942
Folder 9. 1942
Folder 10. 1942
Folder 11. 1942-1943br> Report to the People, Willkie, Wendell, 10/26/1942
Folder 12. 1942-1943
BOX 2 (044599)
Folder 13. 1942-1943
Folder 14. 1943
Folder 15. 1943
Folder 16. 1943
Folder 17. 1943
Folder 18. 1943-1944
Folder 19. 1943
Target GermanyI, U.S. Army Air Force, 1943
United States at War, Unites States News, 1943
One World, Willkie, Wendell, 1943
Folder 20. 1943
Five Senators Report on the War, United States News, October 1943
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 1943
Folder 21. 1943-1944
Air War, United States News, 1/4/1944
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 1/1944
When and How the War Will End, Steele, Johannes, 1943
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 12/1943
The Missionary Herald, 9/1943
Folder 22. 1944
Our Navy at War, King, Admiral Ernest J., 3/1/1944
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 2/1944
BOX 3 (044600)
Folder 23. 1944
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., 3/1944
Folder 24. 1944
Folder 25. 1944
Folder 26. 1944
Folder 27. 1944
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. 7/1944 and 9/1944
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 9/1944
Peacetime Enterprise put to War Work, Chrysler Corp., 1944
Folder 28. 1944
An Idea Whose Time Has Come, The National Council of Christians and Jews, 1944
Folks, General Motors Corp., 11/1944
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., 1944
Firepower, The Ordanceman's Journal, 10/1944
News of China, United China Relief, 10/10/1944
Folder 29. 1944-1945
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., 1/1945
Bible Society Record,, 1/1945
Survey Mid Monthly, 1/1945
Winged Victory, Play by Moss Hart
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 1944
News of China, United China Relief, 9/9/1944
Folder 30. 1945
News of China, 2/1945, 3/1945
The United States and the Peace, 1945
Army Ordnance, 3/1945-4/1945
U.S. Navy at War, 1945
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 2/1945
Review of World Affairs , 2/1945
Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2/16/1945
Christianity and Crisis, 2/5/1945
Social Action, 2/15/1945
Folder 31. 1945
Plane Talk, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., 3/1945
Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2/2/1945, 4/20/1945
Army Ordnance, 3/1/1945
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 4/1945
Review of World Affairs , March 1945-April 1945
Addresses and Statements of Harry S. Truman, 1945
Standard Oil Company annual report, April 1944
Why am I here, Wallace, Henry Brookings, 1945
BOX 4 (044601)
Folder 32. 1945
Steelways, 5/1945
Firepower, April-May 1945
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 4/1945
Survey Graphics, 5/1945
Foreign Policy Bulletin, May 11, 1945
Americans United for World Organization, 1945
Folder 33. 1945
The United States and the Peace, Part 2, April-June, 1945
U.S. Navy at War, 3/1945
Folder 34. 1945
Survey Graphics, 3/1944
Folder 35. 1945
Army Ordnance, July-August, 1945
Science Newsletter, July 28, 1945
World Council of Churches, Annual Report, July 1945
The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific, Marshall, George, 1945
Folder 36. 1945
Full Text of the Official Report Concerning the Attack on Pearl Harbor, September 1, 1945
Science Newsletter, August 4, August 18, August 25, 1945
The Lamp, Standard Oil Company, 8/1945
Folder 37. 1945
Science Newsletter, October 6, October 13, October 20, October 27, 1945
Folder 38. 1945
Science newsletter, November 3, November 10, November 17, November 24, 1945
The American Legion Magazine, November 1945
Folder 39. 1945
Science Newsletter, December 1, December 8, December 15, December 22, December
29, 1945
U.S. Navy at War, October 1945
Folder 40. 1943-1945
INDEX
Abrams, Creighton, f. 31
African Americans, f. 6, 8, 12, 18, 24, 26, 29-30
African campaigns, Vol. 5-23, f. 3, 6, 11-13
Aircraft Carriers, f. 8-10
Alaska, f. 8-9
Aleutian Islands, f. 11, 14, 23
America First Party, f. 2, 34
Anzio, Vol. 28-31
Argentina, Vol. 47, f. 28, 40
Army Engineers, f. 5
Atomic Bomb, Vol. 42-47, f. 36-40
Australia, f. 6, 8
Austria, Vol. 3
Automobile Plant Conversion, f. 5
B-17 Bomber, f. 6
Baja California, f. 9
Bataan, f. 8
Battle of Britain, Vol. 5-6, 43
Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 35-36, 44, f. 29
Battle of the Coral Sea, Vol. 15
Battle of Midway, Vol. 16-17, f. 8-9
Bolivia, f. 5
Bombardier School, f. 7
Bradley, Omar, f. 33
Brazil,f. 10-12
Bretton Woods, f. 27
Brooklyn Navy Yards, f. 5
Broz, Josip, f. 22
Buck, Pearl, f. 16
Burma, Vol. 15, 32, f. 1, 7, 23
Burma Road, f. 1
Buzz Bombs, Vol. 33-36, f. 26-29
Cal-Aero Academy, f. 2
Camouflage, f. 6
Casablanca Meeting, f. 13
Cansorship, f. 6
Chang Kai-Shek, f. 5
Chang Kai-Shek, Madam, f. 1
Chennault, Claire, f. 9
China, f. 1-2, 5-7, 9, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 29, 37, 38, 40
Chinese Civil War, Vol. 44-47
Churchill, Winston, f. 32
Civilian Internment Camps, f. 7, 18, 23, 24
Conscientious Objectors, Vol. 9
Concentration Camps, f. 32
Crete, Vol. 7
Crossen, Henry S., Vol. 6, 47
Czechoslovakia, Vol. 3-4
D-Day, Vol. 32-34, 47, f. 25-27, 40
DDT, f. 38
Detroit, f. 3, 9, 18
Dieppe, f. 9
Disney, Walt, f. 6, 9, 12
Doolittle Raid, f. 6, 16
Draft, f. 11-12
Dulles, John Foster, f. 5
Dumbarton Oaks, f. 27
Dunkirk, Vol. 5
Eisenhower, Dwight D., f. 8, 39
Empire State Building airplane crash, f. 36
F.D.R. dies, Vol. 38, f. 31
Flying Tigers, f. 6, 9
French West Africa, f. 6
French Underground, f. 9, 27
Fortune, Vol. 4-39, 41-47
German airborne training, Vol. 5
German invasion of Belgium, Vol. 5
German invasion of France, Vol. 5
German invasion of Holland, Vol. 5
German invasion of Norway, Vol. 5
German invasion of Soviet Union, Vol. 8-31
Greece, Vol. 6-7, f. 27-28
Greenland, f. 10
Guadalcanal, Vol. 17-21
Haushofer, Dr. Karl, f. 3
Hawaii, f. 4, 5, 7, 12
Helicopter, f. 11, 17,
Hess, Rudolf, Vol. 7
Hitler Dead, Vol. 39, f. 31
Holocaust, Vol. 35, 38, 40, 44-46
Hopkins, Harry, f. 1
Hunger, f. 13
Hurtgen Forest, f. 26
I.G. Farben, f. 10, 38
Iceland, f.2
The Illustrated London News, Vol. 1-47
India, f. 6, 10, 20
Indo-China, Vol. 8-9, 45
International Brigade, Vol. 3-4
Internment Camps, Vol. 14, 30
Iran, Vol. 9, 16, f. 5, 39
Iraq, Vol. 7
Israel, f. 19
Italy Invasion, Vol. 25-31, f. 5, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 30
Iwo Jima, Vol. 37-38, f. 30-31
Japanese American Internment, f. 7, 18, 23, 24
Japanese American Soldiers, f. 26
Japanese invasion of China, Vol. 2-17, 23, 26
Japanese attack the United States, Vol. 12-13, 20, f. 5
The Junior Review, Vol. 7-20
Kiev, f. 2
Kamikaze, f. 34
King, Ernest, f. 3
Korea, f. 27
Labor, Vol. 10-11, 20, 22-24, 27, 29, 32, 44-47 f. 3, 5, 9, 17, 37-39
Lend-Lease, Vol. 7-11, 16-18
Lewis John L., f. 3
Life Magazine, Vol. 6-42, 44-47, f. 1-40
Lindbergh, Charles, Vol. 7, 9, 21 f. 2
The Literary Digest, Vol. 2
Lombard, Carole, f. 5
MacArthur, Douglas, f. 6, 17
Maginot Line, Vol. 4
Makassar Strait, f. 5
Mauldin, Bill, f. 30
Malta, f. 7, 14
Medicine, f. 17, 31
Middle East, f. 5, 12, 27, 31, 37
Miller, Alfred J., f. 22
Missouri River Valley, f. 27, 36
Nanking, Vol. 3
National Maritime Musuem, f. 9
New Caladonia, f. 8
New Guinea, Vol. 19-22, 27-30 f. 13, 16, 40
News of the Nation, Vol. 1
Non-sectarian anti Nazi league, Vol. 1
North Arfica, f. 11-16
Norway, f. 5
Nurses, f. 30
Nye, Gerald P., f. 1
O.S.S., f. 37-38
Oil and War, f. 2, 7,
Okinawa, Vol. 38-41 f. 32-33
Operation Market Garden, Vol. 34, 47
PT boats, f. 10, 16
Palestine, Vol. 45-46, f. 35
Panay bombing, Vol. 2, 3
Paper recycling, f. 34
Pearl Harbor, Vol. 12-13, 15, 20, 43, f. 4-5, 12, 16
Penicillin, f. 26
Pershing, John J., Vol. 1
Philippines, Vol. 8, 12-15, 35-41, 44-45, f. 4, 6, 8, 29-31
Plastic Explosives, R.P.X., f. 27
Poland, Vol. 4, 32-33-36, 45, f. 27
Prisoners of War, f. 1
Radio, f. 11
Railroads, f. 8, 10, 12, 16-17
Rationing, f. 13
Reperations, f. 22
Rickenbacker, Eddie, f. 12-13
Rockefeller, Nelosn, f. 6
Rommel, Erwin, f.8
Rubber Shortage, f. 5, 8
Russia, f. 2-3, 5, 7-8, 10-11, 13, 15, 22, 26, 29-30
Saipan, Vol. 32-33, f. 26
Saud, Ibn, f. 16
Shanghai, Vol. 2, 10, 12
Shipyards, f. 5, 7-8
Sicily Invasion, Vol. 23-25, 47, f. 18
Sikorsky, Igor, f. 11, 17
Simulated air raid on St. Louis, Vol. 8
Singapore, f. 4-5
Smith, Gerald, L.K., f. 34
Solomon Islands, f. 13, 20
South Africa, f. 11, 16
South Amercia, f. 16
Southern Pacific Railroad, f. 8, 10
Soviet Union, Vol. 5, 32-36, 38, f. 2-3, 5, 7-8, 10-11, 13, 15
Soviet attack on Finland, Vol. 5
Soviet invasion of Poland, Vol. 32-36
Soviet invasion of Germany, Vol. 35-38
Spain, f. 39
Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1-4
Stalin, Josef, f. 1, 10
Super Glue, f. 31
Tarawa, Vol. 27-28, f. 20
Taxes, f. 4
Teed, Charles, E., f. 6
Teheran Confernece, f. 20, 24
Tennessee Valley Authority, f.9
Tito, f/ 22
Tojo, f. 6
Trippe, Juan, f. 2
Truman, Harry, f. 31
Turkey, f. 10
Tuskegee Airmen, f. 6
United Nations, Vol. 40-46
United States invades Germany, Vol. 34-39
USO, f. 8
V-1 Rocket, Vol. 33-36, f. 26-28
V-2 Rocket, Vol. 35-38, f. 28-29
V-E Day, Vol. 39, f. 32
V-J Day, Vol. 42, f. 35
Wagner, Boyd D., f. 4
Wallace, Henry A., f. 9, 12
War Crimes, Vol. 42-47, f. 32, 39
War Memorials in Europe, Vol. 1
Wilke, Wendell, f. 11, 19
Wingate, H.L., f. 2
Women in the War, Vol. 4-6, 9-10, 12-13, 15-20, 22-31, f. 15, 17, 18, 27
Yank, Vol. 27-38, 47
Yugoslavia, Vol. 7-9, 29-30, 33, 39
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