Dr. Edwin Burdell, Director of Cooper Union College, conferring in his office, New York City, 1945

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Photograph. Dr. Edwin Burdell, Director of Cooper Union College, conferring in his office with a student and his professor. Official Caption: "Dr. Edwin Burdell, Director of Cooper Union, confers in his office with a student and his professor. The portrait is one of Peter Cooper, American inventor, industrialist and philanthropist who founded Cooper Union in 1859 as a fulfillment of his dream to provide free education for the working classes, irrespective of race, color or creed. Students may attend a thousand-acre camp in the country on weekends to study surveying, sketch and enjoy outdoor recreation.--Rome OWI. 6664 F."”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
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Students--American-New York
Teachers--New York
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College presidents--United States