Similar
Commission merchant examining produce at terminal warehouse before auction begins. Chicago, Illinois
J. Vlieger, Afb OSIM00003000900
Logan Canyon Scenic Byway - Inside the Bear Lake Overlook Visitor Center
A woman standing at a counter in front of a sign. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives
Photograph of the Left Side of the Control Car on a Dirigible, ca. 1933
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Girl with a tray of empty ampoules
The Single Marine Program Volunteers Give Back to Yuma Community
[Apartment building model: P.W.A. Low Rent Housing]
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. A Red Cross Canteen worker, Miss Mary Dougherty, inspects a Red Cross food package going to an American prisoner of war. Packages like this are sent regularly from International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva to American prisoners of war and interned civilians held by Germany and Italy. One a week goes to each American prisoner of war whose capture and location have been reported and one every two weeks to each interned civilian. Twenty thousand such packages were sent to the Far East on the neutral diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholm last June, together with one million cigarettes and other supplies for American prisoners and internees in Japan, occupied China and the Philippines. Much larger quantities are now on the Gripsholm pending final clearance with the Japanese for her sailing on a second trip
Related
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. A Red Cross Canteen worker, Miss Mary Dougherty, inspects a Red Cross food package going to an American prisoner of war. Packages like this are sent regularly from International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva to American prisoners of war and interned civilians held by Germany and Italy. One a week goes to each American prisoner of war whose capture and location have been reported and one every two weeks to each interned civilian. Twenty thousand such packages were sent to the Far East on the neutral diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholm last June, together with one million cigarettes and other supplies for American prisoners and internees in Japan, occupied China and the Philippines. Much larger quantities are now on the Gripsholm pending final clearance with the Japanese for her sailing on a second trip
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners of war or interned by Germany and Italy regularly receive standard American Red Cross food packages, shown here stacked like bricks in the International Red Cross warehouse at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. prisoners of war receive one package a week as soon as the Red Cross is notified of their capture and location. Internees receive one package every two weeks. As of December 9, 1942, Germany and Italy had reported 243 American prisoners of war and 1512 interned civilians. Each package weighs eleven pounds and contains evaporated milk, buscuits, cheese, cocoa, sardines, pork, beef, chocolate bars, sugar, coffee, powered orange concentrate, prunes, cigarettes and smoking tobacco
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners of war or interned by Germany and Italy regularly receive standard American Red Cross food packages, shown here stacked like bricks in the International Red Cross warehouse at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. prisoners of war receive one package a week as soon as the Red Cross is notified of their capture and location. Internees receive one package every two weeks. As of December 9, 1942, Germany and Italy had reported 243 American prisoners of war and 1512 interned civilians. Each package weighs eleven pounds and contains evaporated milk, buscuits, cheese, cocoa, sardines, pork, beef, chocolate bars, sugar, coffee, powered orange concentrate, prunes, cigarettes and smoking tobacco
American prisoners of war at Bradenburg, Germany. U.S. Naval Prisoners in Germany. Four men of the guncrew of the merchant ship Campania, interned at Bradenburg. This photograph was sent to the American Red Cross by Chief Petty Officer James Delaney of Brooklyn, who is the president of the American Committee in the Brandenburf prison camp. He is the second from the right in the group. His companions are Charles L. Kline of Philadelphia and two other men of the Campania's gun crew. There are at present about twenty-five civilian and soldier Americans under detention in the Brandenburg camp. They receive weekly parcels of food and other necessaries from the American Red Cross Bureau in Berne, Switzerland
First American Red Cross food package sent to American prisoners in Germany. The contents of this package have now been hanged and four different packages go forward to American prisoners each "food month." American prisoners now get regular Army food, carefully varied and chosen by the American Red Cross in Switzerland. Food luxuries are thrown in for good measure. In addition clothing of every description is sent to our boys from regular Army outfits to civilian suits. One American prisoner in Germany who has the freedom of Berlin recently was sent a badly-needed "swallow-tail coat" and two golf balls but is not known if the two golf balls sent by a Red Cross Official from his own layout, were cut open by suspicious German "censors"
War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of Midway meet at the Capitol to join in Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. Lieutenant Mary Lohr, Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, recently awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon for gallant service at Bataan, and Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway, will speak to war workers in about 1800 war plants on December 7. They were selected by the War Production Drive Headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB) to participate with Honorable Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, in personal messages for transcription as a feature of Pearl Harbor Day observance, which is being held under auspices of war production Labor-Management Committees
American Red Cross - Prisoners of War - This is Army "A" food box and is sent the prisoner a week after he is sent the First Parcel. This package contains corned beef, 1lb salt pork, 1lb can slamon, 2lbs corned beef hash, 1 can pork and beans, 1lb tomatoes, 2 cans of corn, 2 cans of peas, 3lbs hard bread; 1lb butter; 1lb sugar; 1lb prunes; 1 bar of soap; 80 cigarettes; 4 pkgs of tobacco or one cut of chewing tobacco
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) Japanese Defense Ship (JDS) Haruna Class Destroyer Haruna (DDH 141) passes Hospital Point in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during arrival honors prior to the multinational maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific 2004 (RIMPAC). RIMPAC is the largest international maritime exercise in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. This years exercise will include eight participating nations; Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Peru, South Korea, Britain and the United States. RIMPAC is intended to enhance the tactical proficiency of participating units in a wide array of combined operations at sea, while enhancing stability in the Pacific Rim region
War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of Midway meet at the Capitol to join in Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. Lieutenant Mary Lohr, Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, recently awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon for gallant service at Bataan, and Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway, will speak to war workers in about 1800 war plants on December 7. They were selected by the War Production Drive Headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB) to participate with Honorable Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, in personal messages for transcription as a feature of Pearl Harbor Day observance, which is being held under auspices of war production Labor-Management Committees
Packages for prisoners of war and internees. A Red Cross Canteen worker, Miss Mary Dougherty, inspects a Red Cross food package going to an American prisoner of war. Packages like this are sent regularly from International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva to American prisoners of war and interned civilians held by Germany and Italy. One a week goes to each American prisoner of war whose capture and location have been reported and one every two weeks to each interned civilian. Twenty thousand such packages were sent to the Far East on the neutral diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholm last June, together with one million cigarettes and other supplies for American prisoners and internees in Japan, occupied China and the Philippines. Much larger quantities are now on the Gripsholm pending final clearance with the Japanese for her sailing on a second trip
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 23.
Tags
safety film negatives
lot 3474
united states office of war information
photo
american prisoner
packages
cross food package
office of war information
farm security administration
red cross
ocean liners
ms gripsholm
italy
wwii
japan in world war ii
world war 2
library of congress
japan
vendors
farmers
agriculture
Date
01/01/1941
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain