The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

Committee on Public Information (Creel Committee), 1917-1919

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-2.1: The Committee on Public Information's 1920 report says it directed 76,000 Four Minute speakers who gave 755,190 speeches, made its Division of News the "sole medium for the issuance of official war information," and supervised voluntary censorship of the press.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 997 1 June 1919 (GPO 1920). Committee on Public Information (George Creel); Government Printing Office: Complete Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, 1917: 1918: 1919