Regent HRH Abdul Ilah of Iraq and Professor Phillip K. Hitti at Princeton University, New Jersey, 1945

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Photograph. Regent HRH Abdul Ilah of Iraq and Professor Phillip K. Hitti viewing a 17th century Koran at Princeton University. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/8/45--Iraq Regent visits U.S.--H. R. H. Abdul Ilah, Regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq (left), and Prof. Phillip K. Hitti, Head of the Arabic Department of Princeton University, examine 17th century Koran, part of a large collection of Arabic manuscripts, during the Iraq visitor's tour of the University at Princeton, in the Eastern U.S. state of New Jersey.--OWI radiophoto--serviced by Rome OWI (C list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6646." Princeton, New Jersey. 8 June 1945

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06/08/1945
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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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Princeton
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40.367
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-74.667
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Princes--Iraqi--New Jersey
Teachers--New Jersey
Religious books--New Jersey