Mary Dickinson photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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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.
Mary Dickinson donated the Mary Dickinson photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
Scope and Content
The Mary Dickinson photograph collection consists of 39 black and white photographs of Buchenwald, Weimar, Hergenhein, Nuremberg, Ohrdruf, Schwartenxenfield, Wetterfield, and other unidentified German concentration camps after liberation. Most are stamped on the back with the seal of the U.S. Army Examiner. Thirty-one of the photographs have captions in English attached to the bottom.
System of Arrangement
The Mary Dickinson photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
- Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
- Gravedigging--Germany--1940-1950.
- Mass burials--Germany--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Germany.
- Barracks--Germany--1940-1950.
- Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document