Sidney S. Alderman, assistant to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1945

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Photograph, portrait. Sidney S. Alderman, assistant to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/7/45--Alderman Gets U.S. Government Post--Sidney S. Alderman has been appointed as an assistant to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the U.S. in the prosecution of European war criminals. Mr. Alderman, distinguished 52-year old U.S. lawyer, served overseas as a captain in the last war and spent four months after the armistice in graduate study at Sorbonne University in Paris. He lives in the Southern U.S. state of North Carolina, and is General Solicitor for the Southern Railway, from which he obtained a leave of absence.--PPA photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6608." Location unknown. 7 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.355
Date: 
06/07/1945
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Government officials--American
Portrait photographs
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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.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Government officials--American
Portrait photographs