Elsie Lydon photograph collection

Identifier
irn515657
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.92
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515657

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The collection was found by Elsie Lydon among her mother's belongings and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Elsie Lydon in 1992.

Scope and Content

The Elsie Lydon photograph collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and photographs of captured German airplanes, circa 1945.

System of Arrangement

The Elsie Lydon photograph collection is arranged in a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Fighter planes--German--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
  • Prison hospitals--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Gallows--Germany--1940-1950.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.