President Truman announcing the end of the war, Washington, D. C., 1 September 1945

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Photograph. Posed photograph of President Truman announcing the end of the war from the Oval Office. Official Caption: "U.S. President Truman proclaims end of war. President Harry S. Truman, in a broadcast Sept. 1, 1945 from Washington, the U.S. Capital, following Japan's unconditional surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, proclaims the end of the war and hails the beginning of an era of world peace and prosperity. 'America,'”he said in part“'together with the United Nations, can build a world of peace founded on justice and fair dealings and tolerance . . . God's help has brought us this day of victory. With his help we will attain that peace and prosperity for ourselves and all the world in the years ahead.' Photo serviced through U. S. I. S. Rome (D List out) R-7501." Washington, D. C. 1 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.724
Date: 
09/01/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Communications--District of Columbia
Portrait photographs--District of Columbia
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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: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Communications--District of Columbia
Portrait photographs--District of Columbia