Collection RA050 - Fred Thompson photograph collection

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Fred Thompson photograph collection

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  • Photographic material

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Collection

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CA VHEC RA050

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  • [1945] (Contribution)
    Contributor
    Thompson, Fred

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Physical description

67 photographs : prints, sepia

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Custodial history

Photographs were accumulated by Canadian serviceman Albert Edward Frisby (1900–1949).

Scope and content

Collection is comprised of photographs taken by Canadian aircraftman and photographer Fred Thompson in locations in Germany, Belgium, England and the Netherlands in 1945, at the end of the Second World War. Photographs depict military personnel and aircraft, liberated slave labourers, street scenes, bombed buildings, shipwrecks, Bergen-Belsen atrocities and other scenes witnessed by the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Air Force as part of military operations in northwest Europe.

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Physical condition

Immediate source of acquisition

Photographs were donated to the VHEC by Sara Frisby in 2019.

Arrangement

Photographs are arranged in groupings of related subjects as identified in handwritten captions on reverse of prints.

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  • English

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    Item list is available

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    Further accruals are possible.

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    Final

    Level of detail

    Partial

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    Finding aid created in October, 2020 by Shyla Seller

    Language of description

    • English

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