Italian children eating breakfast at an orphanage in Rome, Italy, circa 1945
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Photograph. Italian children eating breakfast at an orphanage, nuns walking among them. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/2/45--Breakfast time for war orphans--Italian children who lost their parents in battle-torn towns such as Cassino, Anzio, Velletri and others are being cared for at an Italian Red Cross orphanage on Monte Mario, Rome. Here an open-air breakfast is served [to] the children by nuns at the orphanage. The food, which consists of bread and milk for breakfast, is supplied by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.--British official photos approved by appropriate military authority--serviced by Rome OWI full 6968 A."Monte Mario, Rome, Italy. 2 July 1945
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07/02/1945
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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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Mario, Monte
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41.917
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12.450
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Orphans--Italy
Orphanages--Italy
Eating & drinking--Italy
Nuns--Italy