Title: Fred E. Minard photograph collection Creator: Minard, Fred E. Dates: 1918-1919 Extent: 187 digital files (296 MB) Abstract:
Photograph collection of a soldier with the 168th Co., United States Army Transportation Corps, serving near Murmansk, Russia in the Allied intervention in Russia, 1918-1919, the "Polar Bear Expedition."
Call number: 2009071 Aa 2 Language: The material is in English Repository: Bentley Historical Library
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Finding aid created by Len Coombs, 2010
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
The collection was donated by Rea Ann Trotter, of Windsor, Colorado, in 2009 (Donor No. 10169).
Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
To protect fragile audiovisual recordings (such as audio cassettes, film reels, and VHS
tapes), the Bentley Historical Library has a policy of converting them to digital
formats by a professional vendor whenever a researcher requests access. For more
information, please see: http://bentley.umich.edu/research/duplication/.
Copyright:
Copyright is not held by the Regents of the University of Michigan. Patrons are responsible for determining the appropriate use or reuse of materials.
Preferred Citation:
item, folder title, box. no., Fred E. Minard photograph collection, 1918-1919, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Biography
Member of 168th Co., United States Army Transportation Corps serving near Murmansk, Russia near the end of World War I; resident of New Castle, Wyoming.
Collection Scope and Content Note
This collection contains digital records; the original papers and/or photographs are owned by the donor. The digital items in this collection were digitized from originals by the individual donors before being received by the Bentley Historical Library. Preservation copies of these files with their original file names and CD-ROM file structures intact have been submitted to Deep Blue. Access copies of these digital files can be viewed by clicking on the links next to the individual folders in the Content List below.
In this finding aid, the files have been arranged into one series, Photographs. Within each series, files are listed numerically according to the file arrangement they were given by the donor. The porginal files in this collection are in TIF format. Access copies were made in jpeg format.
Files include digitized photographs of ports, camps in England and France the Russian countryside, Murmansk soldiers on patrol and in camp, battle casualties, battle damage and construction on Russian railroads, airplanes, and other subjects, ca. 1918-1919. Many of these photographs are described in a printed list distributed by John E. Wilson, which can be found online in the "Finding Aid for the North Russia pictures, taken by John E. Wilson."
Subject Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the finding aid database and catalog of The Bentley Historical Library/University of Michigan. Researchers desiring additional information about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.
England.
France.
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920.
