U.S. postage stamps honoring the late President Roosevelt, 1945

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Photograph. U.S. postage stamps honoring the late President Roosevelt, an avid stamp collector himself. "Rome, 7/3/45--U.S. postage stamps honor late President--Here are three U.S. postage stamps which are to be issued in tribute to the late President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The one-cent stamp (top) shows the family mansion at Hyde Park, N.Y. The two-cent stamp (center) shows the 'Little White House' at Warm Springs, Georgia, made famous because of Mr. Roosevelt's frequent visits to the Warm Springs hospital for infantile paralysis victims. The three-cent stamp (bottom) shows the White House, Executive Mansion in Washington, where the Roosevelt family lived for 12 years. Philately was one of Mr. Roosevelt's hobbies and he had one of the finest collections in America.--Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out 6979."”Location unknown. 3 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.155
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07/03/1945
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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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