U.S. War Mobilization Director John W. Snyder in Washington, D. C., July 1945
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Photograph, portrait. John W. Snyder, U.S. War Mobilization Director. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/18/45--War Mobilizer--John W. Snyder has been appointed U.S. war mobilization Director by President Harry S. Truman. Mr. Snyder, former Federal Loan Administrator and original a banker in the Midwest city of St. Louis, succeeds Fred M. Vinson, nominated as Secretary of the Treasury. A field artillery Captain in the last war, Mr. Snyder went to Washington in 1940 as Executive Vice President of the Defense Plants Corporation, a government agency providing financial and other aid to the Nation's war plants.--AP photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out 7139." Washington, D. C. 18 July 1945
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07/18/1945
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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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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
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Government officials--American--District of Columbia
Portrait photographs--District of Columbia