[Campo Tures, Frederik Hartt posing by works of art packed in crates]

[Campo Tures, Frederik Hartt posing by works of art packed in crates]

Ward-Perkins Collection. Photographs. War Damage Series

Ward-Perkins, J. B. (John Bryan), 1912-1981 (collector)
Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section ()

[between May and July 1945]

1 photographic print : gelatin silver, b&w ; 12 x 17 cm.

Neumelans Castle in Campo Tures was a deposit of works of art looted by the Germans. J.B. Ward-Perkins, Captain Deane Keller and Lieutenant Frederik Hartt first visited the deposit on 14 and 15 May 1945. The works of art were moved back to Florence on 21 July 1945.
Photograph taken or collected on behalf of Allied Military Government, Division of Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFA&A).
Title from verso.
Forms part of: Ward-Perkins Collection. Photographs. War Damage Series.

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Report of the American Commission for the protection and salvage of artistic and historic monuments in war areas

Hartt, Frederik, 1914-

Portraits
Art treasures in war
World War, 1939-1945
Destruction and pillage
Military personnel
American
War damage
Buildings, structures, etc

Italy
Campo Tures
Trentino-Alto Adige

1940-1950

Portrait photographs
Gelatin silver prints

British School at Rome

Photographic Archive

WP[PHP]-War03-0317

No known restrictions on publication

Closed access material (Archive)

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