Ralph McComb photograph collection

Identifier
irn543022
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.262.1
  • 2019.485
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Ralph McComb (1907-1993) was born February 11, 1907. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1929 from the University of Chicago where he majored in psychology and English. He obtained both a B.S. and a master's in library science from the University of Illinois and did further graduate work in library science at the University of Chicago. He worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago, the University of Illinois, and at Tulane University. He served as Second Lieutenant with the 58th Medical Battalion during World War II. In 1946, he married fellow Library School graduate Mabel Lois Martin, and the couple had three children: John, Mary, and Judith. He went on to work as a libraian and archivist at Penn State from 1947 to 1970.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Estate of Ralph McComb.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Mary McComb, daughter of Ralph McComb, in 2016.

Scope and Content

Contains postwar photographs of Buchenwald, and wartime photographs of Merxhausen mental hospital and ruins in Germany. Taken by donor's father, Ralph McComb, Second Lieutenant with the 58th Medical Battalion.

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