General Eisenhower and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, New York City, June 1945
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Photograph. Doctored picture of General Eisenhower and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia sitting in automobile during parade in New York City. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/21/45--Eisenhower Acclaimed At Home--General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, rides with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as 6,000,000 New Yorkers welcome the victorious commander home.--ACME photo through OWI Radiophoto--Approved by appropriate military authority--serviced by Rome OWI (C List Out) 682 [illegible]." New York, New York. 21 June 1945
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06/21/1945
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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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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Generals--American--New York
Mayors--American--New York
Celebrations--New York