Part 1 (U.S. Mss 28AF): Original Collection, 1934-1951
Physical Description: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

Although the inclusive dates for the Original Collection are 1934-1951, the bulk of the material falls within the years of the Second World War, 1941-1945.

The focus of the collection appears to be the course on wartime communications and censorship (Journalism 48) which Mr. Siebert taught at the University of Illinois in 1941-1942 Therefore the collection's main divisions are (1) lecture materials and (2) papers collected for reference and example purposes for use in relation to the lecture materials or for private research in the field of wartime communications and censorship. The material collected by Mr. Siebert is entirely printed or mimeographed matter in the forms of news releases, bulletins, clippings, and pamphlets. There is a small amount of correspondence which relates almost entirely to Mr. Siebert's requests for copies of news releases and other printed matter, and routine acknowledgments of his requests.

Correspondence, 1942 February-1943 December

Lecture materials, 1941-1942
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Scope and Content Note: Including an outline of the course (Wartime Communications and Censorship), reading lists, lecture notes, and some illustrative material.

25 student papers, 1941-1942

Orders, Board of War Communications, 1942 August-1947 February

Summaries of news releases, Office for Emergency Management, 1942 February-June

News releases

Office of Censorship, 1942 January-1945 August

Office of the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, 1940 October-1941 July

Releases, newsletters, and a summary of activities, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 1941 August-1943 January

Office of War Information, 1942 June-1943 March

Summaries, Office of War Information, 1945 April-September

War Department, Press Branch, 1943 April-1944 January

Navy Department, 1941 December-1942 April

“A Week of the War,” news summaries distributed by the National Editorial Association Defense Advisory Committee, 1942 January-1943 January

Miscellaneous news releases and bulletins, 1942-1943, 1947
Scope and Content Note: Includes those from the Defense Communications Board, the National Editorial Association, the Office of Facts and Figures, the Industrial Information Branch of the War Department, the Children's Bureau, and the Board of War Communications.

Wire news dispatches relating to censorship regulations and ways in which censorship was applied to various topics and events, circa 1943-1945

Clippings and pamphlets, circa 1934-1944

Transcripts of a discussion on wartime communications presented at the Institute of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 1942 July 9

“Documents Relating to the Development of the Relations between Press and Government in England in the 16th and 17th Centuries” (mimeographed copy) collected and edited by Fredrick S. Siebert, 1951