Scale model of a planned housing community, New York, June 1945
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Photograph. Scale model of townhouses and their backyards. Official Caption: "(Series of three) Rome, 6/29/45--Model of American House--This small-scale model of newly-designed American houses on exhibit at the museum of modern art in New York City shows what can be done for row houses. They are shallow and wide, with lots of glass and cross-ventilation. Projecting party walls and a staggered building line define each house as a separate unit, and varied colors and textures give each house its own special character. The living room extends from front to back, so the house can face either north or south, . .Wide world photo through Rome OWI. Approved by appropriate military authority (List A Out). 6936-A."New York, New York. 29 June 1945
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-06-29
06/29/1945
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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
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Building models
Row houses
Exhibitions--New York