us-005578-irn543022
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Ralph McComb (1907-1993) was born February 11, 1907. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1929 from the University of Chicago where he majored in psychology and English. He obtained both a B.S. and a master's in library science from the University of Illinois and did further graduate work in library science at the University of Chicago. He worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago, the University of Illinois, and at Tulane University. He served as Second Lieutenant with the 58th Medical Battalion during World War II. In 1946, he married fellow Library School graduate Mabel Lois Martin, and the couple had three children: John, Mary, and Judith. He went on to work as a libraian and archivist at Penn State from 1947 to 1970.
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: deu
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identifier: irn543022
record resource extent: folder 1
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scope and content: Contains postwar photographs of Buchenwald, and wartime photographs of Merxhausen mental hospital and ruins in Germany. Taken by donor's father, Ralph McComb, Second Lieutenant with the 58th Medical Battalion.
title: Ralph McComb photograph collection