President Truman addressing United Nations Security Conference, San Francisco, June 1945

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Photograph. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing United Nations Security Conference. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--Truman addresses Security Conference--U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses the closing session of the United Nation Conference on International Organization at San Francisco on June 26, 1945. Men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces stand in the background at this momentous scene in world history, when delegates from 50 nations had completed plans for world peace. President Truman told them: 'You have created a great instrument for peace and security and human progress in the world. The world must now use it. If we fail to use it, we shall betray all those who have died in order that we might meet here in freedom and safety to create it.'--AP Photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out) 7038."”San Francisco, California. 26 June 1945

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06/26/1945
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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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San Francisco
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37.767
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-122.417
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Public speaking--California
Meetings--California
Presidents--American--California
Military personnel--American--California
Government officials--California