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World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Ernest Butler photograph album

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032669528]
Identifier: MSS 16875
Content Description This collection contains the photograph album of Ernest Butler, a United States Army soldier who served in Germany during the Second World War. Butler was among the one million African American men and women who served during the war. The album documents his time in Germany, his return to the United States, and his post-war life. The album contains over 250 black and white silver gelatin photographs over its thirty pages. The images depict Butler’s service in Germany, where he...
Dates: c. 1942-1945

Collection of press photographs of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762353]
Identifier: MSS 16917
Content Description This collection contains nine press photographs from Hiroshima and a signed type script from Thomas W. Ferebee, a bombardier of the first atomic bomb. Six of the press photos of Hiroshima are aerial views before and after the nuclear bomb, two are on-the-ground shots of buildings and buses destroyed, and one photograph of United States General MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender in September 1945. Press captions are taped or glued to the back for all but one image. The typescript,...
Dates: 1945

Collection of press photographs of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762353]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0147

Ernest Butler photograph album

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032669528]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0151