| Accession Number: | MA 99:06 |
| Location: | Manuscript stacks, row 12 |
| Dates: | 1941 - 1945 |
| Size: | 2 boxes |
| Creator/Collector: | Collected by Austin Bridgman |
| Acquisition info: | Donated by Patricia Bridgman (daughter of above) on June 25, 1999. |
| Accruals: | No accruals expected |
| Custodial history: | Collection created in Special Collections in 1999. |
| Language: | English |
| Processed by: | Jean Gosebrink, 1999; Sarah Cain, October 2014 |
| Conservation notes: | Issues placed within an archival box. Unbuffered tissue paper between volumes. |
| Scope and Content: | The Fort Wood News was a weekly publication out of Rolla-Lebanon, Missouri (v.1:nos.1-10) and later Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri (v.1:no.11-). “Official publication of one of the Nation’s largest military establishments.” The Media Archives holds an incomplete run of the paper (v.1: no. 2 - v.5: no. 37; March 14, 1941-Nov. 16, 1945). Volume 1: number 1 was published on March 7, 1941. Austin Bridgman was the editor. |
| Arrangement: | Chronological |
| Restrictions: | Copyright |
| Remarks: | Jean Gosebrink accession number Ge-399. |
Fort Wood News
1941 - 1945
2 flat Hollingers; 3.0 cu. ft.
| Box/Folder | Description |
| 1/1 | Finding aid |
| 1/- | Volume 1. Nos. 2-11, 13, 18, 28-52 (March 14, 1941 – Friday, March 6, 1942). Two copies of nos. 7 and 10. Three copies of no. 8. |
| 1/- | Volume 2. Nos. 1-52 (Friday, March 13, 1942 – Friday, March 5, 1943). Two different issues marked no. 4. |
| 1/- | Volume 3. Nos. [1]-19, 21-29, 32-52 (Friday, March 12, 1943 – Friday, March 3, 1944). v.3:no.1 is printed as v.2:no.26 (Friday, March 12, 1943). |
| 1/- | Volume 4. Nos. 1-52. (Friday, March 10, 1944 – Friday, March 2, 1945). Two issues marked no. 4. |
| 1/- | Volume 5. No. 1-37. (Friday, March 10, 1945 – Friday, November 16, 1945). Three copies of no. 6. |
