Title taken from photograph.
Photograph of the 1951 Annual Luncheon of the [General] Federation of Women's Clubs, Shoreham Hotel, Washington D. C. At this lunch the Women's Clubs began supporting the bid for Alaskan Statehood.
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC postal clerk."
Congress opened hearings in March 1943 on the conversion of the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) into the Regular Army. The WAC bill was signed into law some four months...
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC (Women's Army Corps) postal clerks." The war time Army had been scattered around the world, and as a result Women's Army Corps did perform a myraid of services, such as forwarding and censoring mail and...
03 More military training (3:36 min.) (03 of 09) Pearl went to Sweetwater, Texas, to train with the Women's Air Corps. She heard that there was a need for pilots in Alaska. In 1944, she headed to Fairbanks, Alaska. She got stuck in Seattle...
Title taken from caption. "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."
World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC (Women's Army Corps) specialist & public relations officer." Notice the portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill placed prominently on the wall.
Title taken from caption. > "28 Apr 45. Typical bay, WAC quarters." A view of women's sleeping quarters. Blankets rolled up at the foot of the bunk beds, neatly folded clothing and bedding, shoes lined up under the beds, and trunks lying in...
Title taken from verso. Photograph of an unidentified woman standing in front of the civilian women's barracks at Elmendorf Airforce Base. Original photograph size: 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inch.
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: A studio portrait of the women's basketball team accompanied by coach James Ryan. Notice: one of the young women is not in uniform.
Title taken from verso. Notes attached to the photo read, "Back, Fred Beeler, John Boswell, Wilson W. Walton, Gene Brice, Don Mueller, Robert Mize, ---, Saddie Pratt, ---, Charlie McMahan, Leslie Chester; Next to Back, Elizabeth Grigsby,...