French herdsmen with farm animals on road near border gate, Mon Cenis, Italy, 1945
Description:
Photograph. French herdsmen with farm animals on road near border gate. Official Caption: "French herdsmen drive their cattle, sheep and goats across the Italian border to the grazing lands of Moncenisio Plateau [Mont Cenis] after Fascist restrictions which had closed the area for five years had been removed by the Allied military government.--Rome OWI. 7103 A."Mont Cenis, Italy. 1945
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Date:
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.
Geography:
Mont Cenis, Col du
Latitude:
45.250
Longitude:
6.900
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Livestock--Italy
Herders--French--Italy
Boundaries--Italy
Boundaries--France