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Call Number:

PH-02068

Collection Name:

Lee Miller Photography Collection

Creator:

Miller, Lee, 1907-1977 (1907 - 1977)

No. of Items:

2 items

Span Dates:

1945

Description:

The collection consists of two gelatin silver prints by Lee Miller. Titles/subjects follow:

2007:0002:0001 -- Buchenwald. Released prisoners in striped prison dress beside a heap of bones burned in the crematorium, 1945.

2007:0002:0002 -- Cologne, Germany. Lee says “This is a good German. He’s dead. Both hands have been blown off and the surgeon’s scalpel and scissors are still engaged in his left hand arteries,” 1945.

Accession No(s):

2007:0002:0001-0002

Location(s):

M Box, Medium (2007:0002:0001-0002)
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