Uncle Sam's nieces. First photographs showing all four women's branches of the armed services in uniform. The photographs have been taken in compliance with a request to show the distinguishing features of each type of uniform and to aid the public in identifying each branch. Left to right: Second Lieutenant Doris Hyde of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. Army Nurse Corps; Ensign Mary E. Hill of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps; Lieutenant Marion R. Enright of Forest Hills, Long Island, New York, of the WAVES (Women Accepted to Voluntary Emergency Service); Lieutenant Alberta M. Holdsworth of Boston, Massachusetts, of the WAACs (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps). The photographs were taken at Washington, D.C
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Additional number on caption card: WA-U-15-13309.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 133.
Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
district of columbia
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain