United Nations delegates during V-E Day ceremony, San Francisco, June 1945

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Photograph. United Nations delegates Koo, Eden, Stettinius, and Bidault standing before flags during V-E Day ceremony. Official Caption: "Rome. 6/5/45--Victory observed at San Francisco--Four delegates to the United Nations Conference on International Organization stand before massed United Nations flags during a special V-E Day Ceremony. They are (left to right) V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain; British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Chairman of his country's delegation; Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Chairman of the U.S. Delegation, and Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister and Chairman of his country's delegation. Secretary Stettinius told the delegates: 'We still have to win the same final and fighting victory over Japan that has now been won over Nazi Germany'.--OWI photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6584." San Francisco, California. 5 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.543
Date: 
06/05/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Government officials--California
Delegations--California
Meetings--California
Rites & ceremonies--California
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
San Francisco
Latitude: 
37.767
Longitude: 
-122.417
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Government officials--California
Delegations--California
Meetings--California
Rites & ceremonies--California