James Merritt speaking at Agricultural Congress, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. American official James Merritt speaking at the Italian National Congress of Agricultural Scientists in Rome. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/30/45--American speaks at Agricultural Congress--James Merritt, head of the Allied Commission's Agricultural sub-commission, discusses technical problems of Italian agricultural at the Italian National Congress of Agricultural Scientists in Rome, June 29-July 1. Seated is Italian Minister of Agriculture Fausto Gullo.--OWI Staff photo approved by appropriate military authority.--List D 6964." Rome, Italy. 30 June 1945
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06/30/1945
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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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Roma
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41.900
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12.483
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Public speaking--Italy
Men--Italy
Microphones--Italy
Government officials--American--Italy