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Preferred Citation

Photograph Album (Europe), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased in February 2012

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one album consisting of 40 black and white photographs kept by someone visiting Europe during the summer of 1936. Included in the album are photos of castles, landscapes, buildings, and the sea. There are several photographs that may have been taken in Berlin, Germany during the 1936 Olympics, including a photograph of someone waving from a car that may be Adolf Hitler. A few of the photographs have Rothenburg written on the back.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Germany--Description and travel--20th Century
• Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)