President Truman and his mother deplane, District of Columbia, 11 May 1945
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Photograph. U.S. President Harry S. Truman standing with his mother, Martha, outside the door of an airplane. Official Caption: "Rome. 5/1/45--Truman greets his mother in U.S. Capitol--Mrs. Martha Truman, spry 92-year-old mother of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, is greeted by her famous son at the airport in Washington, U.S. capital, upon her arrival there May 11, 1945. Mrs. Truman was in Washington on May 13, the day proclaimed by President Truman originally as Mother's Day and-later-as a day of prayer and thanksgiving for the victory in Europe.--OWI Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6496." Washington, D.C. 11 May 1945
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05/11/1945
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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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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Mothers--District of Columbia