A professor observes a student's work at Cooper Union, New York City, 1945
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Photograph. A professor observes the work of an older female student at a drafting table; other students behind her. Official Caption: "Drafting is taught [to] students from 17 to 60 in this special war-designed drafting class at Cooper Union. Before the war, the woman in foreground ran her own weaving studio-now she is being retrained for industry. Two other elderly women who formerly wrote children's books are now helping design ships after taking drafting courses at Cooper Union.--Rome OWI 6664 L." 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Drawing--New York
Students--American-New York
Women--Clothing & dress--New York
Teaching--New York
Drafting tables