Internment scrapbook: collection of material produced for events at Knockaloe and Douglas Internment Camps (1914-17) and newspaper cuttings and journal articles on Isle of Man internment during World War Two 1940-1941 [about 130 individual items]
Publication date : 1914-1917 & 1940-1941
Author or editor: Various
Notes: Volume conserved into a large binder and repackaged to conservation standard 04.2008.
68 sleeves numbered as double pages, mostly single items which have not been individually catalogued, includes c. 130 printed duplicated and handwritten items. The following is a list of the more significant items but is by no means comprehensive:
World War One: p. 1-10 includes examples of post cards, postal labels and tickets; p. 12-13 2 song sheets "Zensor" couplet [German] and "Don't Miss Your Chance!" [English] aus der Camp review; p.13 invitation to a camp concert with signature of Archibald Knox; p.23 Heimwach by Georg Wolfsteiner, illustrated sheet signed W.M. Hentschel POW 10897, Knockaloe Oct.1915; p.31 canteen price list dated 1 March 1916 [see Government Circulars for other examples]; p.31 International Geneva Association "Life in British Camps" [2 captioned photographs] chefs & hoteliers; p.35 M 18540 report of visit of inspection made by officials of the United States Embassy September 1916 [IOM extract]; p.41 Amberster Spatz No. 6, 27 August 1916, [Canadian internment camp newspaper sent to a Knockaloe internee]; p.43-48 Speisen Karte sheets 1916; p.53 Lager Schule camp 3, compound 5 stundenplan 1917/1918; p.55 camp journal 'DH' Juli 1917 nr.4; p.58-60 letters to Frowde re ship model from camp; p.61 speech on the occasion of Makkabeerfestes in Douglas Camp by F. Weinneb; p.63 brief eines Kreigsgefangenen by W. Floerke No 25,596 Knockaloe; p.65 Report of the Evangelical Church at Knockaloe 1914-1918 [January 1918]; p.67 Calendar for 1918; p. 71 Calendar for 1919; p.74- 119 programmes for camp events, concerts, sports, both Knockaloe and Douglas camps.
Illustrations: p.7 Gesamtamsicht des gefangenenlagers von Knockaloe [newspaper cutting]and Krieggefangenenlager, Knockaloe [post card]; p.49 photograph from New York World, 25 February 1917, of a group of internees at Knockaloe.
World War Two: p.121 100 Fascists riot in Isle Camp from Daily Mail[ 1941]; p.122-123 The Isle of Man and the Women from Sunday Express, 23 February 1941; p. 124-125 Bennison, Ben - Aliens are in Clover on the Sunny Isle of Man from the Belfast Telegraph, March 14, 1941; p.126 Denys - Internees money from the Evening Chronicle, 20 June 1941 [special notes and coins issued in camps]; p. 127 Tuohy, Ferdinand - The Isle of Lucky Men from the Daily Mail, 23 September 1941; p.131 Nissen, Walter - I was interned in the Isle of Man, from the Picture Post 28 September 1940; p.133-136 Barbed Wire Isle - from Illustrated April 19, 1941.
Language: English; German
Physical description: 136 p. : ill.; 36 cm.; pillar binder
Item name: scrapbook
Collection: Library
ID number: M 09213
Classification: B.115/1xf