Libby Frank Papers
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Libby Frank attended the World Youth Festival of 1951 in Berlin, East Germany. During the festival she collected songbooks, pamphlets, and the periodical World Youth. These materials were given to participants of the 1951 festival and also included a year's subscription to World Youth. The 1951 festival took place in the international context of the Korean War, the rise of communism in China and Europe, and growing tensions between the Soviet Union and western nations.
Biographical Note
Libby Frank attended the World Youth Festival of 1951 in Berlin, then part of the German Democratic Republic. Frank was a subscriber to the periodical World Youth in 1952. The World Youth Festival encouraged students to advocate for global peace through annual meetings of the Council of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, who also organized the event. They were an international youth organization founded in 1945, recognized by the United Nations as an international youth non-governmental organization, who characterized themselves as anti-imperialist and left-wing. The 1951 festival took place in the international context of the Korean War, the rise of communism in China and Europe, and growing tensions between the Soviet Union and western nations.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Libby Frank Papers document the 1951 World Youth Festival in Berlin, East Germany through songbooks, pamphlets, and the periodical World Youth, collected by Frank during her participation in the event. The promotion of unity between nationalities is documented in the periodicals and songbooks, while the pamphlets were created by individual European governments to disseminate these messages.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Libby Frank, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in 2018 by the donor. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Libby Frank Papers; TAM 740; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Libby Frank in December 2017; the accession number associated with this gift is 2018.059.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were rehoused in archival boxes and folders after being quarantined and treated for mold.
