Man in the interior of a cheese cellar, Gorgonzola, Italy, July 1945
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Photograph. Cheesemonger in the interior of a cheese cellar. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--Good news for cheese lovers--Once again the little Italian town of Gorgonzola near Milan is making the cheese for which the village is world famous. The manufacture of Gorgonzola was interrupted by the German occupation because the invaders seized all the milk products, but craftsmen descended from generations of cheese makers are now back at work. One is shown plugging a cheese during the three month ripening process to determine the progress of the distinctive green mold.--OWI staff photo approved by appropriate military authority.--Serviced by Rome OWI. 7124." Gorgonzola, Italy. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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Gorgonzola
Latitude:
45.533
Longitude:
9.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Cheese
Dairy workers--Italian--Italy
Men--Italy