Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Howe, Thomas Carr, 1904-1994
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content: Thomas Carr Howe papers
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content: Thomas Carr Howe papers / Series 6: Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.howethom, Subseries 6.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The photographs are grouped together by subject, such as documentation of bomb damage according to the country, looted art repositories, and collecting points for art restitutions.  The photographs taken by James Rorimer are also grouped together.  Miscellaneous photographs of unidentified locations or sight-seeing can be found toward the end of the subseries.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: There are many photographs documenting bomb damage to cultural monuments during World War II, mostly in Germany though there are a few in Austria and France; art recovery at the Altaussee salt mines in Austria, as well as the Berchtesgaden and the Neuschwanstein castle in Germany; transportation of famous artwork such as Michelangelo's The Madonna and Child, also known as the Bruges Madonna, and Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece; restitution activities at Wiesbaden and Munich Central Collecting Points, mostly storing and packing crates of recovered art; and photographs of artwork.  

Howe and fellow Monuments Man James Rorimer exchanged photographs of bomb damage to cultural monuments for research purposes, since they both wrote books about their MFAA experiences after the war.  Consequently, some of the photographs are labelled "James J. Rorimer" on the verso.  

There are many photographs of the Monuments Men, including Thomas Carr Howe, George Stout, Stephen Kovalyak, Bancel LaFarge, Lamont Moore, Patrick J. Kelleher, Edith Standen, and Rose Valland.