Gordon W. Prange Collection

05/29/2026

in 1949, a commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of St. Francis Xavier's Arrival in Japan was held in Nagasaki. We recently completed the digitization of COLOR slides depicting this event. The slides are the part of Victor Delnore papers https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/1817

05/26/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2026) – Part I

We have acquired the following secondary sources on the Occupation period in the first half of 2025. See also our past acquisitions in 2014, 2015 (Part I), 2015 (Part II), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, …

05/21/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】State Shintō and Censorship (Part I)

We were lucky enough to have as Student Assistant this past semester Garv Khandelwal, a talented Linguistics major with wide ranging interests in history, math and machines. This month he will be g…

05/19/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Postwar Knits: Historic Knitting Patterns from the Prange Collection

BY EVIE GIACONIA, University Archives coordinator at Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) Earlier this spring, along with Britney Bibeault (INFO PhD candidate), I took a trip to the G…

05/11/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Featured Gift Collection – George C. Branam photographs

We are pleased to announce one of our new gift collection acquisitions – George C. Branam photographs! George C. Branam was a professor in United States Department of Defense schools during the Oc…

05/08/2026

Among 2,000+ scanned photos in the Mead Smith Karras papers, you can find some of her tours to a factory, observing workers' working condition. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/search?f[digital_collection]=Postwar+Japan&f[archival_collection]=Mead+Smith+Karras+papers

05/05/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Is it a Book or a Magazine?

https://prangecollection.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/is-it-a-book-or-a-magazine/

05/01/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Digitization completed: Mead Smith Karras Papers' photo albums (Part 4)

The Prange Collection has been collaborating with the Hornbake Digitization Center (HDC) to digitize the photo albums and other photos in the Mead Smith Karras papers. Read the first, second, and t…

04/28/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Accessioning of accrual to Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) records – Part Two

Eleanor Vander Laan, Graduate Student Assistant for Special Collections Access Services, is a graduate student in the masters of History and masters of Library and Information Science programs. In …

04/22/2026

【Prange Collection Blog】Accessioning of accrual to Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) records

Eleanor Vander Laan, Graduate Student Assistant for Special Collections Access Services, is a graduate student in the masters of History and masters of Library and Information Science programs. In …