In many cases, only fragmentary information about the source data is available during the collection processing work. The following article outlines the cataloguing procedure for a photograph taken 110 years ago.
In mid-September, two members of our Foundation took part in a five-day research trip to the Hanns Seidel Foundation’s archives in Munich with the aim of finding written and audiovisual material related to Otto von Habsburg.
Our Foundation owes a lot to an outstanding representative of the Hungarian American community, Dr. Eugene Megyesy, who lives in Denver. This time, he brought us to Budapest some interesting documents of Otto von Habsburg’s visits to Denver and his network of contacts there. The photos are from Ambrose Balajthy Júlia, whose mother was the sister of Etienne Perényi, a prominent figure in the Hungarian colony in Denver and a friend of Otto von Habsburg.
In 1941, Otto von Habsburg was the guest of honour at the commemoration of the 15th of March for Hungarian Americans. A newly discovered photo shows the figures of the Hungarian emigration in unprecedented detail.
