La Scala Opera House and the Piazza Scala, Milan, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Exterior view of the La Scala Opera House; statue of Leonardo da Vinci in foreground. Official Caption: "(Series of 5) Rome, 7/19/45--Rebuilding of La Scala--The La Scala Opera in Milan, a Shrine of music lovers the world over, has, like the rest of the world, suffered the pangs of war. From Piazza Scala, the opera house that faces the statue of Leonardo da Vinci reveals little damage but the interior received a direct bomb hit. The Allied military government recently approved an appropriation of 20 million lire ($200,000) for its reconstruction.--OWI Staff Photos Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (Full) 7147?"Milan, Italy. 19 July 1945
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07/19/1945
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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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Milano
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45.467
Longitude:
9.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Opera houses--Italy
Sculpture--Italy
Plazas--Italy