Construction of a model prefabricated home, United States, 1945
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Photograph. A crane lowering the roof of a model prefabricated home as people look on. Official Caption: "The final roof section is lowered into place to complete the house. This model, which may set the new mode for postwar housing in the U.S., has a combination living room-dining room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. Its builder predicts a price of $2000 when large scale production is started. OWI 7120-5."United States. 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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United States
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38.000
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-98.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Model houses--United States
Building construction--United States
Hoisting machinery--United States
Construction workers--United states