U.S. Congressmen meeting with Pope Pius XIII, Vatican City, Italy, September 1945

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Photograph. U.S. Congressmen meeting with Pope Pius XIII in his private study. Official Caption: "Rome, 9/13/45. U.S. Congressmen, members of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, are shown visiting his Holiness Pope Pius XII in his private study, Vatican City, Sept. 13, 1945. Members of the group are, left to right: U.S. Lt. Col. Cushman, Conducting Officer; Morris M. Hughes of the U.S. State Department; Representative Joseph L. Pfeifer of New York; Representative Charles L. Gerlach of Pennsylvania; Franklin C. Gowen, Assistant to the Hon. Myron C. Taylor who is personal Representative of the President of the U.S. to the Vatican; Representative Peter Jarman of Alabama; Representative Bartel J. Jonkman of Michigan and Representative Luther Johnson of Texas. U.S. Signal Corps Photo thru U. S. I. S. Rome RX 7523." Vatican City, Rome, Italy. 13 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.722
Date: 
09/13/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Meetings--Italy
Legislators--American--Italy
Popes--Italy
Government officials--American--Italy
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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: 
Roma
Latitude: 
41.900
Longitude: 
12.483
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Meetings--Italy
Legislators--American--Italy
Popes--Italy
Government officials--American--Italy