Michelle King collection

Identifier
irn81221
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.306.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn81221

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michelle King

Michelle King donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She was an intern at the Museum in 2013-2014.

Scope and Content

Consists of four wartime postcards: three color postcards of artwork depicting (respectively) the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Pennsylvania Avenue; and "New Government Buildings on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues Triangle;" and one photographic postcard of the newly erected Pentagon. Also includes one ration book holder advertising Imperial Dairy Products, containing four original wartime ration books, circa May 1942.

Subjects

  • Pentagon (Va.)
  • Executive departments
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Rationing--United States--History--20th century.
  • United States

Genre

  • Postcards.
  • Ration books.
  • Document
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