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Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the World War II era with such movies as Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation.
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THE DIGITIZATION OF SONGS, PLAYS, AND MUSICALS, FROM WORLD WAR II 7/9/01 L595/5312 Kopczynski Introduction: Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the World War II era with such movies as Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation. A prominent feature of many of these cultural products has been a concern with greater realism in the portrayal of the feeling if not the substance of the era. The collection that our Digital Library Program plans to digitize can be placed at the intersection of both the feeling and the substance of the age. IU's Government Publications department is a Government Document Depository and is home to the entire collection of 110 War Department documents promoting the purchase of war bonds. Created between 1942 and 1945, this collection includes plays, musicals, songbooks and advertisements by soldiers and civilians. Some of these creators went on to great renown, such as Guys 'N' Dolls librettist Frank Loesser. Our mission is to increase awareness and to support...
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