Robert E. Kingsley photographs
Collection Overview
The collection consists of approximately 90 photographs, 260 negatives, and three scrapbooks of Robert E. Kingsley, a U.S. Air Force staff photographer, taken during World War II, the Korean War, the 1963 fire aboard the TSMS Lakonia, a Greek-owned cruise ship that caught fire and sank, and at North and Shaw Air Force Bases in South Carolina. Also included are 16 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken at Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camps.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-1967
Creator
- Kingsley, Robert E., 1921-1999 (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
Robert E. Kingsley joined the U.S. Army as a member of the 11th Armored Division during World War II. The division liberated Gusen and Mauthausen, two German concentration camps located in Austria.
After the war, Kingsley reentered the military and joined the Air Force. He served as an information office photographer and was stationed in Korea and South Carolina before retiring from the military in 1968.
Extent
1.25 linear feet (1 photograph album, 4 folders)
Abstract
The collection consists of approximately 90 photographs, 260 negatives, and three scrapbooks of Robert E. Kingsley, a U.S. Air Force staff photographer, taken during World War II, the Korean War, the 1963 fire aboard the TSMS Lakonia, and at North and Shaw Air Force Bases in South Carolina. Also included are 16 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken at Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camps.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2009 by Rebecca Travis, Robert E. Kingsley's daughter.
Processing Information
Processed by Rebecca McClure, October 2012.
Subject
- Kingsley, Robert E., 1921-1999 (Person)
- United States. Air Force (Organization)
- United States. Army. Armored Division, 11th (Organization)
- Dachau (Concentration camp) (Organization)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp) (Organization)
- Lakonia (Motorship) (Organization)
Source
- Travis, Rebecca (Donor, Person)
Genre / Form
- Black-and-white negatives
- Black-and-white photographs
- Magazines (periodicals)
- Photograph albums
- Scrapbooks
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Robert E. Kingsley Photographs, 1942-1967
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Rebecca McClure; machine-readable finding aid created by: Rebecca McClure
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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