Scaffolding in the interior of La Scala Opera House, Milan, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Three men standing beneath scaffolding in the interior of La Scala Opera House. Official Caption: "A forest of scaffolding rise in the interior of Las [sic] Scala Opera House and building materials are stacked up for repairs to the bomb-damaged building. La Scala was built in 1777 by decree of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.--(2 in a series--Rome OWI) 7147-2." Milan, Italy. 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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Milano
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45.467
Longitude:
9.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Opera houses--Italy
Building materials
Construction--Italy