Couple on a Train
Object NamePhotograph
Historic Owner
Pierce Y. Matthews Jr.
Association
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11)
DateDecember 25, 1961
PeriodCold War
Mediumphotographic paper
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Museum purchase. P2017.05.14
Object numberP2017.05.14
DescriptionPhotograph, Black and white; Horizontal image of a man and woman sitting on a train. The light-skinned woman is wearing a coat, scarf and beret. The light-skinned man is wearing a heavy coat. An interior train door is on the right. There is a white border around the image and the left and right borders are scalloped. The back has “Straiisdat // Eigeltingen // iib, Sinngen // Germany” and “Christmas Day 1961 // On train in Switzerland” written in black ink and “H176211 Polaroid”, “47”, and “4” stamped in blue and black.Description from accompanying letter dated January 6, 1962 reads “The third couple were German who rode from Schaffhausen to Rottweil. By the way, I saw some spectacular falls a few feet in a short distance all out of a moving train window of course. The German couple could speak practically no English – maybe one word. So we had very little to say but spent a great deal of time trying to say it. The man finally got across the idea that he had lost his leg, his left one, in the WWII Battle for Normandy. They also indicated that they didn’t live too far from Rottweil.”
For full text of letters, see A2017.05 or ArchivesSpace record https://intrepidmuseum.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/113
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