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Group photograph of the U.S. Coast Guard Quartet members while singing, New York, N.Y

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Caption on back: "New York, N. Y. - Pictured above is the famed United States Coast Guard Quartet; Headed by Homer Smith, Boatswain's Mate 2/c, who led the noted "Southerners" of NBC fame, the Quartet sings regularly over the networks and is probably the best known of the service quartets,; Other members are [left to right]: Smith, Thomas Lockard, Storekeeper 2/c, Los Angeles Opera Company star; James Lewis, Gunner's Mate 3/c, who was starred in Bill Robinson's "Hot Mikado" ; and Martin Boughan, Yeoman 3/c, Gilbert and Sullivan Opera soloist, who for several seasons starred with Chicago Opera Company.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
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1939 1945
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Singers
  2. African American Soldiers
  3. African Americans
  4. Armed Forces
  5. New York (N.Y.)
  6. Quartets
  7. United States
  8. United States. Coast Guard
  9. United States. Navy
  10. World War, 1939 1945

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