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Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC)

Collection

Identifier: 2021-007

No requestable containers

African American lives

Digital Record

Identifier: p17336coll22

Found in:

The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Herlyne Leonard assists Miriam Wheeler don a gas mask during a practice drill at the First WAAC training center

Digital Record

Identifier: u0001_2021007_0000002

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) / Newspaper Clippings, 1943

Photographs of African American women at Fort Des Moines training to become members of the WAACs

Digital Record

Identifier: u0001_2021007_0000001

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) / Photographs, 1943

WAAC's

Digital Record

Identifier: u0001_2021007_0000003

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) / Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) Booklet, 1943