Photographic Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rorimer, James J. (James Joseph), 1905-1966
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content: James J. Rorimer papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet (Box 1-2, 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rorijame, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The photographs album is at the beginning of the series.  The rest of the photographs are grouped by subject, the arranged chronologically within each grouping.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographic materials include black and white photographs, negatives, and contact prints.  Aside from a few travel photographs, the bulk of the series is dedicated to Rorimer's work in the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives section during the war.  There is one photograph album given to Rorimer from the headquarters of the Office of Military Government in Baden-Wurttemberg titled War Damage in Wurtemmberg: A Selection of Photographs.  The rest of the photographs depict MFAA activities such as recovery and transportation of cultural artifacts from stolen art repositories such as Buxheim monastery and Neuschwanstein castle, documentation of bomb damage in Germany and other countries, the protection of historic sites in France, and restitution and exhibitions at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point.  Many of the photographs have annotations written on the verso.  Photographs of people, including Rorimer, Stanislaw Lorentz, Edith A. Standen, and Rose Valland, are scattered throughout the series, and indicated with notes at the folder level.