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African American Private Hannah Wills developing an x-ray film in the x-ray laboratory at Post Hospital, Camp Breckinridge

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Caption on back: "Pvt. Hannah Wills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wills, 3756 Hudson-av., Detroit, Mich., performs a highly skilled task in the x-ray laboratory of the Post Hospital at Camp Breckinridge, Ky. She develops x-ray film. / Specially trained for 13 weeks in a photographers' school at Fort Des Moines, Ia., Pvt. Wills now is receiving further advanced training at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., before returning to the Army laboratory. / Pvt. Wills was an airplane riveter in Briggs plant at Detroit, Mich., before enlisting in the Women's Army Corps. She is a graduate of Northwestern High School, Detroit.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
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United States. Army. Signal Corps
Created Date:
1943 11 30
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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. Camp Breckinridge (Ky.)
  6. Hospital Laboratories
  7. Military Hospitals
  8. Radiography Films
  9. United States
  10. United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
  11. Women
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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