Two African American Navy officers, [left to right] Ensign J. J. Jenkins and Clarence Samuels, aboard a cutter on the North Atlantic patrol
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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library
United States. Coast Guard
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Caption on back: "Two Negro Coast officers brave the wintry blasts of snow aboard a Coast Guard cutter on the North Atlantic patrol; The officers who gave y their cheery greeting despite icy weather; [left to right] Ensign J. J. Jenkins, 0f 4621 McClellan Avenue, Detroit, Michigan and Lieutenant [j.g.] Clarence Samuels, of 372 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
1939 1945