Episcopal Bishop H.K. Sherrill visiting Rome, Italy, May 1945

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Photograph. The Right Reverend H.K. Sherrill, Chaplain Edwin Carter, and Chaplain Joseph L. Brown in Rome Italy. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/23/45--U.S. Bishop Visits Rome--The Rt. Rev. [Right Reverend] H.K. Sherrill (Center), Vice Chairman of the U.S. General Commission of the Army and Navy Chaplains, visited Rome on May 22, 1945, on a tour of all war theaters for the purpose of inspecting new churches. He is being accompanied in Italy by Chaplain Edwin Carter (left), Chief Theater Chaplain, ETO, and Chaplain Henry Tavel (not pictured), MTOUSA Administrative Chaplain. They were received in Rome by Maj. Joseph L. Brown, Protestant Chaplain of the Rome area command (right). The Right Reverend Sherrill, an Episcopal Bishop, lives in Boston, Mass. His six weeks' tour of war theaters is being concluded this week with the visit to Italy.--OWI staff photo.--Serviced by Rome OWI Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6374." Rome, Italy. 23 May 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.183
Date: 
05/23/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Bishops--American--Italy
Chaplains--American--Italy
Group portraits--Italy
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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: 
Roma
Latitude: 
41.900
Longitude: 
12.483
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Bishops--American--Italy
Chaplains--American--Italy
Group portraits--Italy