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[Joseph M. Dodge receiving Medal for Merit from Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Sept. 18, 1946] – Vintage Wall Art

[Joseph M. Dodge receiving Medal for Merit from Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Sept. 18, 1946], 1946 — historic photograph
[Joseph M. Dodge receiving Medal for Merit from Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Sept. 18, 1946], 1946. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Joseph M. Dodge receiving Medal for Merit from Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Sept. 18, 1946], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Joseph M. Dodge receiving Medal for Merit from Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Sept. 18, 1946]

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The ceremony took place on Sept. 18, 1946, when Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson presented the Medal for Merit to Joseph M. Dodge, a Detroit banker who had worked on the Army's financial administration of occupied Germany. Congress created the Medal for Merit in 1942, and it was given to civilians and foreign nationals for outstanding service to the United States during the war. The photograph captures the formal exchange at the end of that wartime service, just as the military government's work was shifting toward postwar reconstruction. Dodge later returned to public service and was known for the austerity program he led in occupied Japan.

Created / published1946
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
SubjectsDodge, Joseph M. (Joseph Morrell),--1890-1964. Patterson, Robert Porter,--1891-1952.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190141

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