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Captain Mary L. Petty, Chief Nurse, holding a glass bottle and showing it to 2nd Lieutenant Olive Bishop, who is writing on a small pad of paper

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Caption on back: "Captain Mary L. Petty, of Chicago, left, who headed the first contingent of Negro Army nurses to arrive in the European war theater, is shown here while on duty as Chief Nurse at Ft. Huachuca, before her assignment overseas. Assisting her in inspecting an operating room at the camp hospital is 2nd Lt. Olive Bishop, of New York. Both nurses were recruited for Army duty by the American Red Cross, official nurse recruiting agency for the Army.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
American Red Cross
Created Date:
1939 1945
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Military

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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 Nurses
  2. African American Soldiers
  3. African American Women
  4. African Americans
  5. American Red Cross
  6. Armed Forces
  7. Fort Huachuca (Ariz.)
  8. Military Nursing
  9. Military Personnel
  10. United States
  11. United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
  12. United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
  13. Women
  14. World War, 1939 1945

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