A Mark Twain impersonator regales an audience at Cooper Union college, New York City, 1945
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Photograph. An audience of staff and students listen to an oration by a Mark Twain impersonator. Official Caption: "An American professor plays the role of Mark Twain, noted American novelist, at the Annual Forum at Cooper Union, when faculty members make historical speeches as famous men of American history once made them. During the rest of the year, Cooper Union School presents three free public forums every week led by scholars and authorities on a variety of social and political topics. Everyone participates in free democratic discussion, true to the American tradition of free speech.--Rome OWI 6664 G." New York, New York. 1945
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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
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Public speaking-- New York
Audiences--New York
Impersonation-- New York