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SPARS Olivia Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, and Aileen Anita Cooke, of Los Angeles, California, aboard the dry-land ship "USS Neversail," during their training at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station, Manhattan Beach

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United States. Coast Guard

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Text
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints Group Portraits Publicity Photographs
Created Date:
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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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Armed Forces
  5. Cooke, Aileen Anita
  6. Hooker, Olivia J
  7. Participation, African American
  8. United States
  9. United States. Coast Guard
  10. United States. Coast Guard. Womens Reserves Reserve
  11. United States. Navy
  12. Women
  13. World War, 1939 1945

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