Former U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull signing United Nations Charter, Washington D. C., July 1945
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Photograph. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull signing United Nations Charter. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--Hull signs United Nations Charter--Too ill to attend the United Nations conference on international organization at San Francisco, former U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull left his hospital room to go to the State Department in Washington to sign the United Nations charter. Father of the plan for international security, Mr. Hull was unable to act as Senior Advisor to the United States delegation at the conference because of illness which forced his retirement several months ago.--Acme photo through OWI radiophoto--Approved by appropriate military authority (C list out). 6986."Washington, D. C. 3 July 1945
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07/03/1945
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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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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
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Government officials--American--District of Columbia
Document signings--District of Columbia