Elsie Lydon 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.
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.
Scope and Content
The Elsie Lydon photograph collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and photographs of captured German airplanes, circa 1945.
System of Arrangement
The Elsie Lydon photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
- Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
- Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
- Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Gallows--Germany--1940-1950.
- Prison hospitals--Germany--1940-1950.
- Fighter planes--German--Germany--1940-1950.
- Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.