Damaged and restored wooden dressers, ETO, 1945
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Photograph. Two images: a wooden dresser (covered in trash and cans) with mirror attached (destroyed background); a more ornate painted wooden dresser with mirror attached and two lamps on dresser (dresser is painted with floral design; lamps and mirror are extremely detailed). Official Caption: [damaged] ". . . Salvatori into the. . . ornate one, sub. . . lamps and rococo. . .Rome OWI 7234" Probably Europe. 1945
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1945
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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.
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Europe
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Conservation & restoration--Europe
Clothes chests--Europe