Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Acquired by Virginia Longest, 1945, Germany.
- Date
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found:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Virginia Longest
Physical Details
- Classification
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Weapons
- Category
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Daggers and swords (edged weapons)
- Object Type
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Bayonets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- a. Bayonet made of of solingen steel with a silver-colored metal hilt and a black plastic grip with a diamond pattern.
b. Sheath - Dimensions
- a: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.120 inches (2.845 cm) - Materials
- a : steel, plastic
b : plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The bayonet and sheath were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Virginia Longest.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:42
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Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest (donor), a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory. The collection also includes a bayonet and sheath from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth), as well as a dagger, that the donor acquired in 1945 in Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Virginia Longest photographs
Document
Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory.
Photograph of a United States Army nurse
Document
The photograph depicts Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's 3rd Army, standing in front of a sign reading, "58th Fld. Hospital; 2nd Platoon; A.E.H.U." Caption on back reads, "The 58th Field Hospital was attached to General Patton's 3rd Army - This scene is at the Airfield-Munich-Germany - where our hospital was set up in tents. We evacuated our patients (G.I.'s) on C-47 Airplanes - Virginia B. Longest standing at the 58th sign."
