Downey, Jack,, photographer.
Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944
[1944 Aug. 26]
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Number on jacket: K01; OWI number devised by Library staff.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photo shows Free French tanks and half tracks of General Leclerc's 2nd
Armored Division passing through the Arc du Triomphe in Paris,
probably on August 26, 1944. Sign at left "De Gaulle au
pouvoir" and sign at right "Vive De Gaulle." (Source:
Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Wikimedia Commons)
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Crowds
Streets
Military parades & ceremonies
Champs-Elysses (Paris, France)
France--Paris
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection Lot 12002 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a55001
Call Number: LC-USW36-1 A
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fxbodin.com 65 months ago | reply
C'est vraiment super !
La librairie du congrès a été l'un de premier fournisseurs de contenus publics sur l'Internet, alors que les institutions françaises - IGN, INA, INSSEE, etc. - tenaient colloques sur la manière de "protéger leur patrimoine informationnel"...
On connaît le résultat.
J'ai fait un petit article sur mon "e-Moleskine"
afterthemouse 65 months ago | reply
The occupation continues... the red cross nurses are just outside what is now the flagship McDonalds in Paris
zrolen 65 months ago | reply
Simply amazing. So glad to have found this.
TOLZ 65 months ago | reply
these are photoshopped
stumblng.tumblr 64 months ago | reply
Please see stumblng.tumblr.com/post/24486622, where I've added a link to a comparative photo.
Dominoa 64 months ago | reply
It was not the 1944 Aug. 25, but the 1944 Aug. 26. Général De Gaulle was walking and the half-tracks in the photo are from the "neuvième compagnie du Régiment de Marche du Tchad", part of the "2ème DB" commanded by General Leclerc. This compagnie was call "La Nueve" because most of the soldiers were Spanish republicains.
whlongyard 62 months ago | reply
Dominoa, Do you know why the half-track is named Kichi-Kichi? I believe this is Japanese?
Dominoa 62 months ago | reply
It's the name of a city in Tchad
So_P 62 months ago | reply
I would have liked to put tags
25 aout 25th august in french
But it appears there are too much. So it will be unreadable for french people.
Tant pis
Azchael 59 months ago | reply
Added link to Wikipedia:
Arc de Trimophe
Elizabeth Pellette 57 months ago | reply
thank you for sharing these
D'oh Boy (Mark Holloway) 47 months ago | reply
The bumper numbers of the vehicles were covered by sensors. According to a book I'm reading this would be the 28th (Keystone) Division. The book (Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose) says that De Gaulle asked Eisenhower for this show of force to scare off the Germans and communist who were still among them. Other units went around Paris. It says the 4th Division also went through Paris but it was the 28th who had the parade.
Simon Blanc 47 months ago | reply
Great picture, amazing to see that now :)
phoenixgoa 46 months ago | reply
wow, this picture made me cry... that is stunning...
Mr Flikker 43 months ago | reply
LOC people, where is the rest of this roll?!! Why do we have dozens of contiguous shots of factories but just a single image of this world-historic moment?
Roy Gardner (ScreamingEagles 101 Pathfinder) Spain 43 months ago | reply
Es una magnifica foto. El desfile de la Division Leclerc por el Paris liberado. En esta liberacion participaron miembros españoles de la division Leclerc, en la Novena Compañia.
Sirve de homenaje a los españoles que lucharon contra Hitler.
Dan K ™ 30 months ago | reply
Interesting the way the label refers to them as "French Patriots". As opposed to what other sort of French person at the end of an occupation.
The Library of Congress 30 months ago | reply
Hello Mr. Flikker: Thank you for your interest in this photograph. The majority of the United States Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) photographs depict life in the United States. OWI probably acquired this image of Paris from an outside photographic source and added it to their files. That is probably why the FSA/OWI collection does not contain more images of this event.
Duffy'sTavern 27 months ago | reply
Small point: there is no "roll" as such. If you look at the photo, you will see, on the right and top and bottom, thick lines. These are the shadows of the plate holder, telling us that the picture was taken with a Graflex camera, perhaps a Speed Graphic, which was the premier press camera of the 30s-50s. As well, the corners of the shot are perfectly square. Slides taken on a 35mm roll will have rounded corners from the cardboard slide mount.
With the Graflex cameras, each shot was taken separately, with the plate holder and film pushed into the camera back together. The cover was then extracted separately and the picture taken, the cover put back in, and the exposed shot (properly covered) extracted. Doesn't make for fast work, but the 4" x 5" negatives hold something like 45 megapixels of information.
flowerwine 26 months ago | reply
Wow! This is a treasure! Thanks for sharing it with us!
What a fabulous photo!
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