Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas (P.C.T.W.A.), 1943-1944

Re Frick Art Reference Library's role in assisting the Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas in the mapping and indexing of cultural treasures during World War II. Contains minutes of meeting held June 25, 1943; minutes of the Executive Board of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Art and Archaeology (Princeton) held November 26, 1943; Report on Activities of the Committee of December 31, 1943; correspondence with Sumner McK. Crosby (College Art Association), William B. Dinsmoor (Chairman, Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas), Waldo J. Leland (American Council of Learned Societies), Justice Owen W. Roberts (Supreme Court) and Francis Henry Taylor (Metropolitan Museum of Art); flyers; and questionnaire for volunteers. See also: Frick Art Reference Library - Central Correspondence - American Council of Learned Societies.