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Thérèse Bonney
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Unidentified photographer, 1942, February, Therese Bonney wearing medal, Gelatin silver print, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/43434
Thérèse Bonney

Born: Mabel Bonney

Born: 1894, 15 July - USA, NY, Syracuse
Died: 1978, 15 January - France, Paris
Gender: Female
Active: Finland / Russia
 
She recorded the plight of children that was caused by World War II first concentrating on the civilians on the Russian-Finnish front and later those in Western Europe. She was awarded the Order of the White Rose of Finland for bravery.

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Thérèse Bonney, 1941, Portugal: Therese Bonney, Negative, nitrate film, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/132348
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Unidentified photographer, 1942, February, Therese Bonney wearing medal, Gelatin silver print, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/43434
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Thérèse Bonney, 1944-1945, [Ammerschwihr: TB Village. Thérèse Bonney with elderly man in vineyard.], Negative, nitrate film, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/132324
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Thérèse Bonney, 1944-1945, Therese Bonney, Negative, nitrate film, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/132354
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Thérèse Bonney (born Mabel Bonney; July 15, 1894 - January 15, 1978) was an American photographer and publicist. She was best known for her images taken during World War II on the Russian-Finnish front. Her war effort earned her the decoration of the Croix de Guerre in May 1941, and one of the five degrees the Légion d'honneur. She published several photo-essays, and was the subject of the 1944 True Comics issue "Photo-fighter."
 

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