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November Object: American POW in WWI

November 12, 2009

By Jeremy Dibbell

Our November Object of the Month is up: it’s an October 1918 photograph of a group of American prisoners of war taken at the German prison camp Landshut. Atlantic Monthly correspondent (and fighter pilot) James Norman Hall, one of those prisoners, sent the photo along with a note to Atlantic editor Ellery Sedgwick.

See the photograph, and read background on Hall, Segwick and others here. And remember to check out our current exhibition: “Atlantic Harvest: Ellery Sedgwick and The Atlantic Monthly, 1909-1938.”

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