Nine Italian refugees seated in the train station, Chiasso, Switzerland, 1945
Description:
Photograph. A family of nine Italian refugees, including three young children, wait inside of a train station. "A Florentine family that has been interned in Switzerland since fleeing their homeland and the Fascists wait in the Chiasso station for the train that will return them to their home. 7094 A."Chiasso, Switzerland. 1945
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Date:
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.
Geography:
Chiasso
Latitude:
45.850
Longitude:
9.033
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Families--Italian--Switzerland
Refugees--Italian--Switzerland
Railroad stations--Switzerland