Paul K. Dougherty collection
Scope and Contents
The Paul K. Dougherty Collection includes photographs, documents, and various artifacts Dougherty obtained while in Germany. His collection contains rare original German propaganda publications such as Deutschland Erwach and Adolf Hitler. Also included in the collection is a personal photograph album that belonged to Nazi official and founder of the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher. Other items included are Nazi Party flags/fabrics, Paul K. Dougherty’s camera, and camera accessories.
Dates
- created: 1942-2000
- Other: Majority of material found within 1942-1945
- Other: Date acquired: 03/26/1997
Creator
- Dougherty, Paul K. (Family)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Biographical or Historical Information
The Paul K. Dougherty Collection illustrates life in the United States Army Air Force through documents and artifacts. Also included are various artifacts Dougherty obtained in Germany. Following General George S. Patton’s Third Army, Dougherty reproduces significant places and events through his camera lens. Dougherty’s photographs capture common scenes such as basic training in the United States, deployment in England, France, and Germany; and to seldom witnessed sights such as Dachau, Buchenwald, Nuremberg, German prisoners of war, and Hitler’s house.
Paul K. Dougherty was born in New York in 1914 and worked for Kodak in the Film Emulsion Department located in Rochester, New York. Dougherty enlisted in the United States Army Air Force in 1942. He and his wife Ruth B. Millhofer Dougherty moved to Tallahassee, Florida for basic training at Dale Mabry Army Airfield and Lake Bradford. Dougherty also trained at Waycross Army Airforce Base in Waycross, Georgia. During World War II, Dougherty served as a Technical Sergeant with the 30th Service Group in the 9th Air Force as a photographer for General George S. Patton’s Third Army. He was stationed in England, France, and Germany during the war. After his wartime service, Dougherty and his family moved to Broward County in South Florida. In 1998, Dougherty's son Kevin noticed that his father's World War II belongings were in the trash and took them out knowing the importance of the items, donated them to Dr. William Oldson at the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. Paul Dougherty passed away in 2002 at the age of 87 years old.
Extent
5.00 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.
Source of Acquisition
Paul K. Dougherty
Method of Acquisition
Donated
Subject
- United Service Organizations (U.S.) (Organization)
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 9th (Organization)
- Streicher, Julius, -- 1885-1946. (Person)
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. (Person)
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 (Person)
- Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Atlantic City (N.J.)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Canterbury (England)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Lake Bradford (Fla.)
- Versailles (France)
- Wakulla Springs (Fla.)
- Waycross (Ga.)
Topical
- Photography, Military
- Tallahassee (Fla.)--History
- United States. Army Air Forces--Military life
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps
- World War, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia
- World War, 1939-1945--England--London
- World War, 1939-1945--France
- World War, 1939-1945--France--Metz
- World War, 1939-1945--France--Paris
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Berchtesgaden
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Nuremberg
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
- Title
- Paul K. Dougherty collection
- Author
- Julianna Witt
- Date
- 01/29/2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Box: 98.0018-Box 1 (Text)
- Box: 98.0018-Box 3 (Text)
- Container: 98.0018 Dougherty Camera (Text)
- Container: 98.0018 Rare Books (Text)
- Container: 98.0018 Dougherty Box 1 of 3 (Text)
- Container: 98.0018 Dougherty Camera Case (Mixed Materials)
- Container: 98.0018 Dougherty Trunk (Mixed Materials)
- Container: 98.0018 Dougherty (Text)
Repository Details
Part of the FSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
116 Honors Way
PO Box 3062047
Tallahassee FL 32306-2047 US
850-644-3271
lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu