Elementary-aged school children on their way to school in Greenbelt, Maryland, May 1945

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Photograph. Elementary-aged school children on their way to school; they are on a walkway that passes under a small bridge. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/25/45--Greenbelt: Typical planned community in the U.S.--Underpasses at Greenbelt connect the houses with the business center and the school. These underpasses eliminate street crossings and children can go to and from school safely. Greenbelt did not grow up in a random way like most villages. All details of every day life were considered carefully by the nation's leading town planners, architects, social workers and engineers long before actual construction of the community began.-OWI Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6392-8." Greenbelt, Maryland. 25 May 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.043
Date: 
05/25/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Children--Mayland
Children--Clothing & dress--Maryland
City planning--Maryland
Bridges--Maryland
Collection Level: 
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: 
Greenbelt
Latitude: 
39.000
Longitude: 
-76.867
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Children--Mayland
Children--Clothing & dress--Maryland
City planning--Maryland
Bridges--Maryland