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 Collection
Identifier: MC 1629

Daniel Barone WWII photoprints

Dates

  • 1942 - 1945

Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of approximately 360 unmounted black-and-white snapshots (3" x 4" and smaller), accompanied by one related negative and one document contemporary with the war that names Daniel Barone. Most images are undated (though a few are known to have been developed in 1943 or are dated 1945) and unlabeled (thgouh sixty0four photographs bear at least brief identifications).

Included among Barone's identified photographs are images exposed at Unkel (and nearby Remagen Bridge), Remscheid, Rotenburg (possibly Rothenburg), Dillenberg and [Schloss?] Birlinghoven, each of which might represent a location at which he was stationed. Other images might represent places that Barone visited (e.g. Cologne, possibly near Unkel), including several views taken outside Germany in Switzerland, France, and Holland. Other images, such as those of Siegburg, Germany, might fall into either category: a place that Barone was stationed or a place that he visited. Among the most interesting of Barone’s identified images are the several which depict former slave laborers on a train on their way back to France and Belgium.

Extent

0.1 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Biographical / Historical

Daniel A. Barone, Private First Class, was stationed in France and Germany during World War II, where he appears to have spent at least some of his time as a barber and might have been part of a hospital unit. He earned at least 4 medals throughout his deployment in the army. He lived in Ewing Township. His wife died in 1991; they had no children.

Author
Stephen Bacchetta
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