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Spring Break Closure (2024)
The Prange Collection will be closed from Monday, March 18 through Sunday, March 24 for the University of Maryland Spring Break. We will resume our postings in late March.
Featured Gift Collection – Donald H. Swann papers
We are pleased to announce one of our new gift collection acquisitions – Donald H. Swann papers! Donald Swann (1926-1964) served in the U.S. Army from 1944-1946. He was posted in Tokyo and Hachinohe, Japan, during the Allied Occupation of Japan. While he was in service, he sent letters, photographs, and postcards regularly to his […]
Notable Japanese Collections in North America Dashboard
Have you heard about the Notable Japanese Collections in North America Dashboard? It was created by several members of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC), drawing on data originally collected by NCC’s Cooperative Collection Development Working Group. The dashboard landing page shows the North America map on which the users can […]
Prange featured in Monthly Bulletin of the National Diet Library, Japan
Akane Yoshiie, who works in the Modern Japanese Political Documents Division at the National Diet Library, Japan, was posted to Washington DC in 2019. She was Visiting Researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park for a 4-year term before returning to Tokyo in 2023. An article in the National Diet Library’s Monthly Bulletin vividly describes her […]
Happy New Year 2024!
Happy New Year from the staff of the Prange Collection! The Prange Collection will re-open on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
Thanksgiving holidays (2023)
The Prange Collection will be closed from Wednesday, November 22 through Sunday, November 26 for the Thanksgiving holidays. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Exhibition on Koichi Seko, Kindai University
A new exhibition (“創設者 世耕弘一 ドイツ留学100周年”) on Koichi SEKO, founder of Kindai University, is up at Kindai’s Futoukan (不倒館). One of our holding magazine, Jiyu Kokumin, is in a panel display. Open to public. Oct 11-17, 2023. For more info on the exhibition, See: Webpage for the exhibition Exhibition Catalog YouTube video
The Prange Collection Blog is 10 Years Old!
It is hard to believe, but today, July 1, 2023, marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Prange Collection blog! We have published over 500 posts, and welcomed over 21,000 visitors (52,000+ views) in the last 10 years. A special thanks goes to our longtime readers and subscribers! We look forward to continuing […]
Featured Gift Collection – George P. Demeroukas papers
We are pleased to announce our newest acquisition – George P. Demeroukas Papers! George P. Demeroukas (1930-2012) was a technical illustrator and US Army veteran based in Chicago, Illinois. While stationed with the Japan Signal Battalion of the US Army in Japan from February 1955 to March 1956, Demeroukas photographed sites throughout Japan and collected […]
Spring Break Closure (2023)
The Prange Collection will be closed from Monday, March 20 through Sunday, March 26 for the University of Maryland Spring Break. We will resume our postings in late March.
Gordon W. Prange Collection 