Manlio Giovanni Brosio, Herbert H. Lehman, and Alexander Kirk meet in Rome, Italy, 1945

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Photograph. Manlio Giovanni Brosio, Herbert H. Lehman, and Alexander Kirk stand outside on an airfield with an airplane and an unnamed man visible in the background. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45 -- Lehman visits Rome -- Herbert H. Lehman (Center), Director-General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, shakes hands at the Rome airport with U.S. ambassador Alexander Kirk, also on hand to greet Mr. Lehman was Manlio Brosio (L), vice-president of the Italian Council. The former governor of the U.S. state of New York came to Rome to attend conferences with heads of UNRRA missions in Italy and the Balkans. He is on a tour of countries receiving Allied relief. -- UNRRA photo through OWI -- Approved by appropriate military authority -- Serviced full." Rome, Italy. 9 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.007
Date: 
07/09/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Ambassadors--American--Italy
Shaking hands--Italy
Statesmen--American--Italy
Meetings--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: 
Roma
Latitude: 
41.900
Longitude: 
12.483
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Ambassadors--American--Italy
Shaking hands--Italy
Statesmen--American--Italy
Meetings--Italy