Overview
- Description
- The Elsie Lydon photograph collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and photographs of captured German airplanes, circa 1945.
- Date
-
creation:
circa 1945
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Elsie Lydon photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950. Prison hospitals--Germany--1940-1950. Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950. Gallows--Germany--1940-1950. Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950. Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950. Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950. Fighter planes--German--Germany--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- 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.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:11:29
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515657
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- Terms of Use
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-
Request in Shapell Center Reading Room
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