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H. Ehlers Ahmednagar prisoner of war camp photograph album, circa 1914-1918.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 970
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Ehlers, H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoner-of-war camps--India--Ahmadnagar.
- Prisoner-of-war camps.
- Prisoners of war--Austria.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- History.
- Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918--India--Prisoners and prisons.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, British.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Photographs.
- India.
- Austria.
- India--Ahmadnagar.
- Genre:
- photograph albums
- photographs
- picture postcards
- Manuscripts.
- Photographs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by H. Ehlers (bookplate).
- Sold by Rolan Fuschle, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 box (.2 linear foot)
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1914-1918.
- Biography/History:
- H. Ehlers was a resident of the Ahmednagar camp; his role there is unclear.
- Summary:
- From the mid-eighteenth century to its independence in 1947, India--including Pakistan and Bangladesh--was part of the Britain's colonial empire. The British established prisoner of war camps in India during and after the Second Boer War (1899-1902) and during the First World War. Ahmednagar, headquarters of Broach District in the Central division of Bombay Presidency, was the site of a camp both for prisoners of war and German and Austrian civilians between 1914 and 1918. A detailed description of the conditions of the camp in 1917 are described in a Red Cross report, Reports on British prison-camps in India and Burma (p. 25-33). This album consists of 54 photographs and postcards, both on photo paper and cardboard. They feature several angles of everyday life in the Ahmednagar camp: the landscape; the buildings; the inhabitants (both military and civilian prisoners); and the prisoners' pastimes, especially sports and cultural activities. The majority of the images are unlabeled or captioned, and as a result, most people in the photographs are unidentified. One photograph is stamped with P. Karadi Nursoo and Sons, a photographic studio which appears to have taken many photographs of Ahmednagar during the war.
- OCLC:
- 879677986
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