Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts presiding over a meeting, California, 1945

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Photograph. Field Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, standing at a podium at a table of United Nations delegates. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/21/45--South African presides over UNCIO [United Nations Conference on International Organization] Session--Field Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and Chairman of his country's delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, presides over a session of the General Assembly, and Charles L. Watkins, Parliamentarian. Seated below are Kuzma V. Kiselev (second from left), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Soviet White Russian Republic's delegation, and Hasan Saka (R), Turkey's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Delegation Chairman. Representatives of 50 United Nations are meeting in the U.S. Pacific coast city of San Francisco to draft a charter for world security organization.--OWI Staff Photo Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List out) 68[?]7." San Francisco, California. 21 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.441
Date: 
06/21/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Prime ministers--South African--California
Delegations--California
Microphones
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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: 
San Francisco
Latitude: 
37.767
Longitude: 
-122.417
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prime ministers--South African--California
Delegations--California
Microphones