Inventory of the German pictorial collection

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Title: German pictorial collection
Date (inclusive): 1890-1999
Collection Number: XX766
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 8 slide boxes, 42 envelopes, 1 oversize folder (4.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photographs, postcards, and slides, depicting various political, military, and naval scenes in Germany, including communist rallies in the 1920s, the Berlin blockade of 1948-1949, and various prominent German personalities, including East German head of state Walter Ulbricht.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Acquisition Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], German pictorial collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pictorial works
Slides (Photography)
Germany -- Pictorial works
Communism -- Germany -- Pictorial works
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949 -- Pictorial works
Ulbricht, Walter, 1893-1973

envelope A

1 print of Count Helmuth K. B. von Moltke 1890

envelope B

3 prints of the Royal Bavarian Army during its return to Munich, December 1918; 6 prints of a Stahlhelm parade in Berlin with Prince August Wilhelm and other Stahlhelm leaders reviewing it circa 1927

envelope C

46 prints and postcards depicting Communist rallies and parades in Germany, held under the auspices of the Roter Frontkaempferbund and other organizations 1922-1929

envelope D

197 negatives and 2 strips of uncut film depicting units of the German Navy during the period 1937-1938, including scenes of the launchings of the battle cruiser Prinz Eugen, and the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin; visits by foreign naval vessels and their crews, and general scenes of life on board ship

envelope E

Negatives and uncut film depicting units of the German Navy during the period 1937-1938 (continued)

envelope mF

1 print of Paul von Hindenburg, with his signature

envelope m*G

1 print of Paul von Hindenburg

envelope mH

1 print of Adolf Hitler

envelope m*G

5 prints of Adolf Hitler circa 1936-1940

Scope and Contents note

including a scene at Obersalzberg, and with Hermann Goering.
envelope mI

1 print of Hermann Goering

envelope m*G

1 print of Hermann Goering circa 1940

envelope m*G

1 print of Joseph Goebbels

envelope J

2 prints (and 2 negatives) of heinrich Himmler

envelope K

1 print (and 1 negative) of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel

envelope L

6 prints of a storm trooper trophy. Part of the inscription reads: "Reichsinnungsmeister Pokal der S.A. gestiftet vom Deutschen Schuhmacherhandwerk"

envelope M

11 prints of eleven leading Nazis convicted at the Nuremberg trial of major German war criminals, 1945-1946, taken immediately after their execution

envelope mN

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949

Scope and Contents note

Captions in mN.
envelope mO

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope mP

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope mQ

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

box 14

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials originally housed in envelope mR.
envelope mS

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope mT

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope mU

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope mV

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

box 14

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

Scope and Contents note

Contains materials originally housed in envelope mW
envelope mX

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope mY

124 prints and 8 negatives of scenes in Berlin during the blockade of 1948-1949 (cont'd.)

envelope Z

24 prints of the city of Reutlingen, Germany, and vicinity 1951

envelope AA

1 print of German politician Erich Ollenhauer 1901-1963

envelope AB

41 prints depicting events in the life of Walter Ulbricht while growing up and during his rise to power circa 1893-1961

envelope AC

20 prints depicting events in the life of Walter Ulbricht as leader of East Germany, late 1950's and early 1960's

Scope and Contents note

Captions included in envelopes.
envelope AD

1 postcard of Karl Kautsky

envelope AE

50 prints depicting military activities of the German Army 1935-1940

envelope AF

1 small album containing 15 interior shots of Hitler's country house on the Obersalzberg

box 1

14 slides of an unidentified strongman/performer; 14 slides of groups of unidentified German officers, c.1920; 11 slides of an unidentified theater production; 12 slides of the Seemannschule Arcona near Berlin, 1930; 8 slides of members of the communist Roter Frontkampferbund; 4 slides depicting Reichsleiter der NSDAP, Robert Ley, addressing a rally of the Nationalsozilaistische Betriebsorganisation

box 1

98 slides depicting theater productions, ship launchings, and other miscellaneous activities

box 2

Slides depicting theater productions, ship launchings, and other miscellaneous activities (continued)

box 3

66 posters depicting youth and education in the German Democratic Republic

box 4

80 slides, 1981-1987, depicting East and West Berlin; and 2 slides depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 December

box 5

Slides, 1981-1987, depicting East and West Berlin; and 2 slides depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall (continued) 1989 December

box 6

Slides, 1981-1987, depicting East and West Berlin; and 2 slides depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall (continued) 1989 December

box 7

Slides, 1981-1987, depicting East and West Berlin; and 2 slides depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall (continued) 1989 December

box 8

Slides, 1981-1987, depicting East and West Berlin; and 2 slides depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall (continued) 1989 December

box 9

33 slides of the Berlin Wall, and of troops, tanks and other scenes in Berlin undated

envelope AG

2 prints of the Berlin Wall depicting the flight of an East German soldier in 1961 and the destruction of the Reconciliation Church in 1985

envelope AH

11 prints depicting the Berlin Wall on December 31, 1989

envelope AI

3 prints of East Berlin, 1989 December and 4 prints of the Berlin Wall 1986-1987

envelope AJ

31 slides depicting campaign posters for the 1990 October 14 elections in East Germany

envelope AK

9 prints depicting propaganda posters inside an East German cigarette factory in Dresden and 1 print of a Dresden street

envelope AL

71 prints depicting Berlin (East and West) in November 1989

Scope and Contents note

Includes 7 prints of the Berlin Wall and 2 prints of the Brandenburg Gate.
envelope AM

8 prints depicting campaign posters for the 1990 March 18 elections in East Germany

envelope AN

23 prints depicting slabs of the Berlin Wall

envelope AO

14 prints depicting Berlin (East and West) 1990

Scope and Contents note

Includes 12 prints of the Berlin Wall.
envelope AP

16 postcards, 1992, depicting political graffiti and wall painting, scenes of daily life, and historical sites in Berlin

envelope AQ

1 print of Angela Hammitsch, sister of Adolf Hitler, 1945; 10 prints of Berlin, ca. 1945-1949; and 10 prints Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Schmidt, and other West German politicians undated

envelope AR

5 color photographs of neo-Nazi graffiti in Berlin circa 1991-1994

envelope AS

3 color photographs of the Reichstag, Berlin undated

box 10

Photograph of the Reichstag, Berlin; 2 photographs of the Bundestag 1999

box 11

Material not yet described

box 12

Material not yet described

box 13, folder 1

Photographs

box 13, folder 2

Photographs depicting Hitler and Mussolini

Scope and Contents

1 depicting Hitler and Mussolini at the tomb of the unknown soldier (Vittorio Emanuele Memorial), Rome, May 1938; 1 depicting Hitler's return from Prague at the Goerlitzer train station, surrounded by his top generals, 19 March 1939 [Associated Press]; 2 depicting the Brandenburg Gate : one in 1936 during the Olympics and one in 1945, after Berlin fell, with a large sign in Russian.