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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2018585079
Collection material in English and Japanese
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The materials were donated to the Geography amp; Map Division by Anthony A. Faranda in 1998.
The collection was arranged and described by Ryan Moore in 2018.
The status of copyright of the Anthony A. Faranda World War II maps, photographs, and papers collection is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The Anthony A. Faranda World War II maps, photographs, and papers collection is open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Geography & Map Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Anthony A. Faranda World War II maps, photographs, and papers collection, Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The collection consists of maps, photographs, textual documents collected by Anthony A. Faranda during World War II.
The collection is organized into three series
Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2018585079
Annotated by collector: "Given to me by downed Japanese pilot."
Transliterated Japanese title: Hatano oyobi Matsuda Odawara fukinzu by Rikugun Shikan Gakko.
Annotated by collector: "This is a Jap[anese] map, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what area it covers."
"New Guinnea (sic) 1944 from Japanese Pilot."
Photo-duplicate of newspaper article
Chicago Daily News