WAR HISTORY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 16

WAR HISTORY

TOLD BY PRESS CUTTINGS

A history of the world war in newspaper cuttings has been acquired by the New York Historical Society, with funds provided by John D. Rockefeller, jun., writes a London "Evening News" correspondent.

The collection covers the period of tho war from August, 1914, to December, 1918, and is mounted in -100 volumes of 200 pages each. The cuttings were gathered and assembled by Otto Sprengler. owner oP tho Argus Press Clipping Bureau, of New York. There are cuttings from newspapers published in all parts of the United States and a considerable number of foreign newspapers. It is believed that the collection, tho largest of its kind, will answer every purpose of the student and the scholar in studying the history of tho Great War as reflected in tho minds of tho people and expressed day by day in the press.

To this end not only the current news was clipped, but also editorial correspondence, special articles, and cartoons. Tho page 3of the volumes are about tho sizo of tho ordinary newspaper page, «md are made of rag paper bound in library buckram.