Two students seated underneath a statue of Peter Cooper, New York City, 1945
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Photograph. Two students seated underneath a statue of Cooper Union college founder Peter Cooper greet another approaching student. Official Caption: "A bronze statue of Peter Cooper (1791-1883) who founded Cooper Union, free educational institution in New York City, stands in front of the school facing the public square that bears his name. The statue is by the noted sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, who attended Cooper Union when he was 13. Peter Cooper led the successful fight to secure a free public school system in the U.S.--Rome OWI 6664 K." 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:
Sculpture-- New York
Architectural elements--New York
Students--American-New York
Monuments & memorials--New York