Herbert H. Lehman meeting with refugee children in Italy, July 1945

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Photograph. Herbert H. Lehman, Director-General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), meeting with Italian refugee children. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45 - UNRRA director meets refugees - Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, is surrounded by children during his visit to Sabaudia refugee camp 60 miles from Rome on July 7. The camp, a former fascist resort, houses many war-displaced Italians cared for by UNRRA and the U.S. Catholic Committee for Relief Abroad, one of the many agencies participating in the UNRRA relief program.- UNRRA photo through Rome OWI [Office of War Information] - Approved by appropriate military authority - serviced full." Sabaudia, Italy. 09 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.001
Date: 
07/09/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Children--Health & welfare--Italy
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Statesmen--American--Italy
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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: 
Sabaudia
Latitude: 
41.300
Longitude: 
13.017
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Children--Health & welfare--Italy
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Statesmen--American--Italy