cover image: Members of an African American company of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps lined up for review, Liberia

Members of an African American company of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps lined up for review, Liberia

1939

Caption on back: "A company of Negro WAACS was reviewed by the Hon. Lester A. Walton, U.S. Minister to Liberia, recently on a visit to an American camp near Monrovia. The WAACS are shown as they lined up for review. PLEASE CREDIT: AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PHOTO FROM OWI."
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Authors

United States. Office of War Information

Collection
Military
Format
Photographs
Pages
1 photographic print: gelatin silver, 8 x 10 in.
Place Discussed
United States Liberia
Provider
The New York Public Library
Published in
Liberia
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Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/59ce35446671523a993dbe6e24cc536b

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