Object Details
- Subject
- Howe, Thomas Carr
- Kovalyak, Stephen
- Stout, George L. (George Leslie)
- 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 ; 11 x 17 cm.
- Summary
- Identification on verso (handwritten): 9 July 1945; salt mine, Altaussee, Austria; packing the Michelangelo "Madonna & Child" in the Kaiser Joseph mine; left to right, 1st Lt. Stephen Kovalyak, Lt. Cmdr. George Stout USNR, Lt. Cmdr. T.C. Howe Jr. USNR; This world famous statue, carried off from Belgium by the Germans, was found at the Alt Aussee salt mine, packed & shipped by MFA&A offices to the Munich Collecting Point pending its return to the church in Bruges (to which it belongs).
Photo shows Kovalyak, Stout and Howe examining the sculpture which is tied up with ropes and resting on a dolly. - Citation
- Stephen Kovalyak, George Stout and Thomas Carr Howe transporting Michelangelo's sculpture Madonna and child, 1945 July 9. 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 July 9
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)15088
- Type
- Photographs
- See more items in
- Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Art and war
- Sculpture, Renaissance
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_15088
