Manuscripts Collection
Grim served in World War II as an officer in the United States Army 90th Infantry Division. He traveled to Chungking, China in 1943 to work as a State Department advisor in foreign broadcast communications. While working as a war correspondent for the
Grim became a world reporter for the
Grim officially retired and moved to Key Biscayne, Florida in 1973, but he remained a creative consultant for the
Materials consist primarly of black-and-white photographs of city scenes, war-damaged buildings and piles of rubble, ordinary people at work and at the market, children and families, soldiers, Communist youth parades, Soviet-constructed apartment houses, and the graves of Soviet officials outside the Kremlin walls. Some of the photographs indicate that they were taken with a secret camera carried by Grim. Some of the photographs are accompanied by Grim's stories clipped from the newspaper. Included as well is some biographical information and military papers, some correspondence, and some of Grim's articles and writings.
Accession numbers: 17,075; 17,508; 17,617
Catalog ID number: 008511446
Booklet written by George Grim about his travels in China.
Includes induction order, honorable discharge notice, radio scripts, and miscellaneous material.
Scripts were mainly written for the "Women's Radio Review."
Primarily 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, likely taken by Grim in the course of writing newspaper stories; some are labeled with corresponding newspaper captions.
Includes images of George's parents Mary and Matt Grim.
From Grim's "In Africa's Heartland: Uneasy Freedom" newspaper series; some are labeled with corresponding newspaper captions.
From Grim's Berlin newspaper series.
Includes images of George's mother Mary and grandmother Clara Anna.