Female rice field worker, Vercelli, Italy, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Female rice field worker in northern Italy. Official Caption: (Series of 3) "Rome, 7/7/45--Rice growing in Italy--A typical worker in the fields of North Italy, one of 25,000 now engaged in transplanting rice seedlings.--Rome OWI 7027 B." Vercelli, Italy. 7 July 1945
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07/07/1945
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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.
Geography:
Vercelli
Latitude:
45.317
Longitude:
8.417
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Rice paddies--Italy
Women--Italy