Scope and Contents This series includes correspondence relating mostly to the restitution of material from Montecassino theft, list of photos of damaged monuments, copies of final reports issued by the Subcommission for Monuments, Fine Arts and Archive (MFAA) on the damage occurred in the Italian regions as well as various reports on German activities between 1943 and 1945. Correspondence between J.B. Ward-Perkins and Ferdinando Forlati on monuments in Veneto dated 1947 and letters sent to David W. Richardson...

Scope and Contents The so-called 'Frick Maps' are photostat cultural town plans prepared and issued by The Frick Reference Library to assist military personnel with identifying principal historical monuments of Italian towns and their locations during World War II. The Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas spent two years (1943-1945) in the Frick Library alongside librarians and photographers to detail and locate the principal cultural sites and...