Frederic William Wile scrapbooks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; London Naval Conference; Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934 : Geneva, Switzerland); United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces; Disarmament; United States; Discovery and exploration; Military intelligence
Description: Scrapbooks (circa 5,000 items) chiefly containing clippings of news stories, dispatches, and columns written during Wile's career in journalism.  Subjects include his service as an intelligence specialist on German affairs with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, the London Naval Conference (1930), and the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, Geneva, Switzerland (1932-1934).  Includes a telegram (1909) from Frederick Albert Cook regarding his alleged discovery of the North Pole.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 19,347.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1986.

Transfer, Army War College, 1947.

Journalist, foreign correspondent, and radio commentator.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Scrapbooks discarded after microfilming except for selected items placed in MMC-3564 (circa 100 items : 1 container : 0.2 linear feet).