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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Early photographs of Adolf Hitler, 1920-1933, and one of him as a child in a classroom photograph

About this Item

Title

  • Early photographs of Adolf Hitler, 1920-1933, and one of him as a child in a classroom photograph

Summary

  • Portraits of Adolf Hitler include him as a child in a group portrait in elementary school taken in June 1901 in Linz, Austria and with Rudolf Hess at the Reichsparteitag in Weimar, July 1919. Also includes picture after being released from Landesberg prison on December 20, 1924. Also includes undated images of Hitler posing with children, delivering speeches and in his Nazi uniform.

Names

  • Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957, photographer
  • Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, DLC, former owner
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, DLC, former owner

Created / Published

  • 1920-1933.

Headings

  • -  Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945
  • -  Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Imprisonment
  • -  Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Childhood & youth
  • -  Hess, Rudolf,--1894-1987

Format Headings

  • Cigarette cards--1920-1940.
  • Group portraits--1920-1940.
  • Photographic postcards--1920-1940.
  • Photographic prints--1920-1940.
  • Portrait photographs--1920-1940.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1920-1940
  • Photographic prints--1920-1940
  • Photographic postcards--1920-1940
  • Cigarette cards--1920-1940
  • Group portraits--1920-1940

Notes

  • -  Six prints are on postcard mounts. One print is a cigarette card.
  • -  Four prints produced by Photo-Hoffmann.
  • -  Some prints have German captions written in pencil on verso. Four prints have printed captions.
  • -  Listed in Weinberg, Gerhard. Guide to captured German documents, p. 34.
  • -  Two prints have ink stamp on verso: "Hauptarchiv der NSDAP". One postcard has ink stamp on verso: "Hist. polit. Archiv. Dr. Priesack".
  • -  Confiscated by U.S. military intelligence authorities from the Rehse collection, Munich, 1945-1946.

Medium

  • 12 photographic prints ; 21 x 17 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 3641 (F) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005686222

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rehse Archiv Für Zeitgeschichte Und Publizistik, Dlc, Former Owner, and Dlc Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, Hoffmann, Heinrich, photographer. Early photographs of Adolf Hitler, -1933, and one of him as a child in a classroom photograph. , 1920. to 1933. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005686222/.

APA citation style:

Rehse Archiv Für Zeitgeschichte Und Publizistik, D. & Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, D., Hoffmann, H., photographer. (1920) Early photographs of Adolf Hitler, -1933, and one of him as a child in a classroom photograph. , 1920. to 1933. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005686222/.

MLA citation style:

Rehse Archiv Für Zeitgeschichte Und Publizistik, Dlc, Former Owner, and Dlc Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, photographer by Hoffmann, Heinrich. Early photographs of Adolf Hitler, -1933, and one of him as a child in a classroom photograph. to 1933. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005686222/>.