An Italian soldier uses an X-ray unit to conduct a tuberculosis screening on a boy, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. An Italian soldier using an X-ray unit to conduct a tuberculosis screening for a boy. Official Caption: "Anti tubercular campaign - Italian heath authorities in Rome, aided by UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration], are conducting an anti-tubercular campaign designed for all Italy. Using mobile x-rays units which have their own generators, UNRRA technicians are examining students in all the public schools and adults all over the city. Italian health authorities begin treatment of cases showing signs of tuberculosis. OWI staff photos Approved by appropriate military authority serviced by Rome OWI full. A soldier conducts the screening for a child. "6413-D." Italy. Circa 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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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Children--Italy
Medical equipment & supplies--Italy
Health care personnel
Tuberculosis--Italy
Military personnel--Italian--Italy