John W. Snyder, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, United States, August 1945
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Photograph, portrait. John W. Snyder, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion. Official Caption: "Rome, 8/8/45--New U.S. War Mobilization Director--John W. Snyder, a former banker from the Midwestern U.S. city St. Louis, who for the past three months has been U.S. Federal Loan Administrator, was appointed Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion by President Harry S. Truman on July 17, 1945. He will succeed Fred M. Vinson, who became U.S. Secretary of the Treasury on the same date. In his post, Mr. Snyder will direct the home front in the war effort.--New York photo through U.S.I.S. Rome--40767-PWW."United States. 8 August 1945
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08/08/1945
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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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United States
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38.000
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-98.000
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Government officials--American--United States
Portrait photographs--United States