Eddie Mills Murphy papers

Identifier
irn46737
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.463.1
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

boxes

oversize boxes

2

4

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Eddie Mills Murphy served as a Private First Class in the United States Army, 3264th Signal Photo Battalion, and was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was assigned as a photographer at the International Military Tribunal, also known as the Nuremburg War Trials, in 1945 and 1946.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Colleen Picchi

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Colleen Picchi, the daughter of Eddie Mills Murphy.

Scope and Content

Consists of original photographs, photographic negatives, and documents relating to the Nuremberg trials, which belonged to Eddie Mills Murphy. The photographs include: photographs of military airplanes, courtroom interiors during the IMT trials, Allied naval ships, photos of Eddie Murphy, post-war Germany, and signed photographs, including a signed portrait of General Dwight Eisenhower and Justice Robert Jackson. Also includes Murphy's tribunal passes, original negatives and Murphy's original wooden Signal Corps negative box. Eddie Murphy served as a Private First Class in the United States Army, 3264th Signal Photo Battalion. He was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany after the war and was assigned as a photographer at the International Military Tribunal during the Nuremberg trials from 1945-1946.

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