The Inventory of the Myron Ehrenberg Collection #838 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center EHRENBERG, MYRON Collection of Photographs Gift of Mrs. Mary Ann S. Ehrenberg, 1983 Box 1 77 black and white photographs taken by Myron Ehrenberg in Greece after World War II, 1946-1947. Descriptions by Mr. Ehrenberg are typed as written on the verso of the photographs; descriptions supplied are in parentheses. Number corresponds to circled number in upper right-hand corner on verso of photograph. Sizes vary as indicated. 1. Cave in southern Greece. Family of five live in this one room. Hard back photograph. 32.0 cm. ht x 24.0 cm. 2. Child preparing food for parent in T.B. hospital, Salonica (Thessaloniki). Hard back photograph. 26.7 ht x 33.8 cm. w. 3. Children's camp, southern Greece. (Girl drinking at fountain). Hard back photograph. 33.6 cm. ht x 26.0 cm. w. 4 . Kandanos, Crete. (Village scene: people, donkey in doorway). Hard back photograph. 30.0 cm. ht x 26.6 cm. w. 5 . (Close up of girl at loom). Hard back photograph. 31. 6 cm, ht X 2 6. 1 cm. w. 6. (Long shot of girl at loom). Hard back photograph 26.5 cm. ht X 33.7 cm. w. 7 . (Close up of girl at loom). Same photo as #5 27.8 cm. ht x 35.3 cm. w. 8. (Same girl as in photographs #5,6,7 making skeins of ~ yarn). 35.4 cm. ht. x 27.9 cm. w. 9. (Waterfront in Thessaloniki, with the White Tower in distance). 26.5 cm. ht x 34.3 cm. w. 10. (Waterfront in Thessaloniki, with the White Tower in distance). 34.6 cm. ht x 26.6 cm. w. -2- 11. K.K.E. - Greek communist Party - in demonstration at Constitution Square in Athens on anniversary of the founding of the Soviet State. (Photograph unevenly cut across top and bottom). 21.5 cm. ht x 29.5 cm. w. 12. (Parts of marble columns, probably on the Acropolis in Athens). Hard back photograph. 25.5 ht x 24.4 cm. w. 13. Waiting for King George outside Athens Cathedral. (Probably after plebiscite in 1946). Hard back photograph. 27.3 ht x 26.1 cm. w. 1 4 . (Street scene with priest walking). Athens. Hard back photograph. 23.3 cm. ht x 32.8 cm. w. 1 5 • Orphans. (Two boys holding bamboo sticks). Hard back photograph. 30.2 cm. ht x 25.7 cm. w. 16. Boy water seller. Athens, Greece. Hard back photograph. 33.2 cm. ht x 25.8 cm. w. 1 7 • Suburb of Athens. (Older woman in doorway of house with wash hung outside on line). Hard back photograph. 26.0 cm. ht x 33.3 cm. w. 18. Beggar girl on street of Salonica (Thessaloniki). Hard back photograph. 33.3 cm ht x 26.6 cm. w. 1 9 • (Child being examined by doctor). 20.7 cm. ht x 30.3 cm. w. 20. Boy street beggar. Athens, 1946. Hard back photograph. 34.8 cm. ht x 27 cm. w. 21. Rebuilding the village of Kalavryta in the Peloponnesos (had been burned by the Germqns in reprisal). Hard back photograph. 33.5 cm ht x 25.7 cm. w. 22. (Children, perhaps orphans, being led by teacher. Kalavryta? Peloponnesos). 20.7 cm. ht x 25.5 cm. w. 23. (Patient in tubercular hospital north of Salonica (Thessaloniki). Hard back photograph. 33.2 cm. ht x 26.6 cm. w. -3- 24. T.B. hospital north of Salonica (Thessaloniki). 26.7 cm. ht x 34.4 cm. w. 25. (T.B. hospital patient?) 24.3 cm. ht x 19.l cm, w. 26. School children, Crete. (Two girls). Hard back photograph. 33.0 cm. ht x 25.4 cm. w. 27. School children, Crete (two boys). 34.2 cm. ht x 26.7 cm. w. 28. Greek child (little girl). 34.2 cm. ht x 27.9 cm. w. 29. (Father and son). Hard back photograph. 29.3 cm. ht x 25.5 cm. w. 30. (Same father and son with child's foot being examined by doctor). 34.0 cm. ht x 26.5 cm. w. 31. School children, Crete. (Two boys reading a book). 31.8 cm. ht x 26.6 cm. w. 32. (School children, Crete. Two girls same ones as in photo 26. 35.4 cm. ht x 27.9 cm. w. 33. Orphan at UNRRA camp, southern Greece (boy eating). Hard back photograph. 26.4 cm. ht x 31.3 cm. w. 34. Greek War Relief feeding center (girl eating), Hard back photo. 26.0 cm. ht x 33.5 cm. w. 35. Children's camp, southern Greece (seven boys near drinking fountain) Hard back photograph. 33.5 cm. ht x 26.5 cm. w. 36. Child paralytic at American Farm School, Salonica (Thessaloniki). (Boy holding crutch). Hard back photograph. 33.8 cm. ht x 26,0 cm. w. 37. (Little girl in tomato garden). 33 .. 7 cm. ht x 21. 8 cm. w. 38. Village of Kandanos, Crete, destroyed by Nazis. (Photograph dated 1946, Greece). Hard back photograph. 20.8 cm. ht x 30.1 cm. w. 39. (Destroyed village of Kandanos)? Hard back photograph. 26.2 cm. ht x 25.9 cm. w. 40. (Mother with children in Crete)? 27.1 cm. ht x 26.7 cm. w. -4- 41. (Cretan man). 34.6 cm. ht x 26.7 cm. w. 42. (Cretan? scene of men rolling barrels). 35.2 cm. ht x 27.8 cm. w. 43. Crete. (Woman standing in doorway of house). 33.8 cm. ht x 26.0 cm. w. 44. (Coastal village in Crete)? 26.7 cm. ht x 33.0 cm. w. 45. (Cretan village scene? mother and child carrying cans). 33.1 cm. ht x 25.7 cm. w. Photographs 46-65 taken on the island of Gavdos or in the village Palaiochora which is located opposite on the southern coast of Crete. According to Ehrenberg, persons considered dangerous to public security during the Greek Civil War exiled on the island. Ehrenberg wrote comments on the back of most of these photographs and many are dated February 22, 1947. 46. (Four guards). 35.4 cm. ht x 27.8 cm. w. 47. Second in command and guard outside their quarters. Roughly 150 fisherfolk on island all year round, also keep goats etc. 23.0 cm. ht x 25.7 cm. w. 48. Commandant. Thompson sub-machine gun etc ... 27.6 cm. ht x 21.4 cm. w. 49. Group prix of prisoners. Guard to right. Guards hate place, touchy. 21.4 cm. ht x 28.6 cm. w. 50. Teen age political prisoners, island of Gavdos. Hard back photograph. 28.3 cm. ht x 25.9 cm. w. 51. Editor of Rizospastis, Communist daily paper etc ... 25.8 cm. ht x 21.4 cm. w. 52. Napdleon Tsantis, bank official from Yanniana etc ... 24.9 cm. ht x 19.8 cm. w. 53. Democrat, businessman etc .. 24.9 cm. ht x 21.2 cm. w. 54. Manoli. Fisherman from Palaiochora to Gavdos. He is only contact with Gavdos. Born in town; grew up as a fisherman. Bought boat after W.W.II. about 32-33. Good democrat; sorry for prisoners. 26.5 cm. ht x 21.7 cm. w. -5- 55. Bed committee at work. Only two tools-hammer and saw on island. 22.1 cm. ht x 26.5 cm. w. 56. Making nails out of barbed wire found on island. 26.4 cm. ht x 22.4 cm. w. 5 7. Prisoners dancing native dance. All have been convicted of one thing, "dangerous to the public order". 22.7 cm. ht x 28.1 cm. w. 58. Only change in government will free these people. 27.8 cm. ht x 21.7 cm. w. 59.. Manolis' boat lands prisoners. 21.7 cm. ht x 26.9 cm. w. 60. Sparse Bitter-laurel shrubbing only green. (Probably boat landing on Gavdos). 22.2 cm. ht x 24.3 cm. w. 61. Political prisoner Gavdos Island, Greece. (Same woman as in phot #62 with another woman in background). Hard back photograph. 34.3 cm. ht x 26.7 cm. w. 62. (Woman with hand in sling and moustached man). 30.2 cm. ht x 26.4 cm. w. 63. (Violinist surrounded by men). 26.4 cm. ht x 30.8 cm. w. 64. (Same violinist surrounded by men). 35.3 cm. ht x 27.8 cm. w. 65. Political prisoner, Gavdos (three men). Hard back photograph. 30.8 cm. ht x 26.5 cm. w. 66. (Argos in the Peloponnesos with the Venetian fortress on top of the mountain? Photographs 67-70 seem to be of the same vicinity. Photographs 67 and 68 might be of the approach to Mycenae). Phot #66 26.0 cm. ht x 34.0 cm. w. 67. (Mountains, plain and road, cloudysky. Perhaps the vicinity of Mycenae). 26.4 cm. ht x 34.0 cm. w. 68. (Of the same scene as photo #67 27.8 cm. ht x 35.3 cm. w. 69. (Plain with fields and winding road). 26.6 cm. ht x 34.2 cm. w. 70. (Woman and children walking along road). 27.7 cm. ht x 35.3 cm. w. 71. Typical cooking method in ruined village. (Kandanos, Crete)? Hard back photograph. 26.0 cm. ht x 32.3 cm. w. -6- Photpgraphs 72-74 are of rural scenes which could be anywhere in Greece. 72. (Herding sheep along side of road), 27.8 cm~ ht x 35.4 cm.