Soldiers loading art recovered from Neuschwanstein Castle onto trains at Füssen, Germany
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Object Details
- Subject
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section
- World War, 1939-1945
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic print : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm.
- Summary
- Two separate handwritten notes on verso, one in black ink, one in blue ink. Note in black ink reads: Neuschwanstein operation (Capt. Adams' ); loading sorted out on 8 [?] train at Füssen; train for Paris
Note in blue ink reads: 1945, late; looted art at Neuschwanstein was evacuated over a period of many months; from Sept. through the winter of 1945 - Citation
- Soldiers loading art recovered from Neuschwanstein Castle onto trains at Füssen, Germany, 1945. Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1945
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)16199
- Type
- Photographs
- See more items in
- Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Art and war
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_16199
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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