Officials meet to discuss communal sharing of pastures on the Italian and French borders, France, 1945

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Photograph. French, Italian, and American officials meet to discuss communal sharing of pastures on the Italian and French borders; American flag flying behind them.“Official Caption: "Officials of three countries meet on the French-Italian border as the barriers are removed from communal sharing of pastures of the Moncenisio Plateau [Mont Cenis] of Italy. Left to Right are: U.S. Lieut James Braafladt of Sacramento, California; Bermond Cesare, Assistant to the Mayor of the Italian town of Susa; Mayor Giovanni Battista Borello of Susa; Ernest Gravier, Mayor of the French town of Lanslebourg, and Louis Eliopulos of Cincinnati, Ohio. Lieutenant Braafladt and Mr. Eliopulos of the Allied Military Government helped work out the arrangement restoring international grazing rights along the border. Mayor Borello and Mr. Cesare were active in the Italian partisan movement in the mountains. -- Rome OWI. 7103 D." Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis, France. 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.025
Date: 
1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Farms--Italy
Farms--France
Flags--American
Mayors--Italy
Discussion--France
Discussion--Italy
Collection Level: 
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: 
Lanslebourg
Latitude: 
45.283
Longitude: 
6.883
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Farms--Italy
Farms--France
Flags--American
Mayors--Italy
Discussion--France
Discussion--Italy