Andrew F. McCarthy photographs

Identifier
irn502514
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.246
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502514

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Elizabeth McCarthy

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received these photographs from the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives In Spetember 2000. The Photo Archives received the photographs from Elizabeth McCarthy, the widow of Andrew F. McCarthy, who served a signal corp photographer in the United States Army during World War II.

Scope and Content

Contains approximately 240 United States Signal Corps photographs that include images depicting the Dachau concentration camp, Normandy, the liberation of Paris, and bunkers in Berlin, Germany.

People

  • McCarthy, Andrew F.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.