03102ckm a22004817a 4500 11709245 20250606175515.3 kh|||| cr ||| 980128s1944 xx nnn kn 11709245 7 cbc orignew u ncip 19 y-printpho qw05 LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-859 98501418 (DLC) 98501418 (DLC)11709245 LC-USZ62-119985 DLC (b&w film copy neg.) DLC DLC gihc LOT 13103, no. 9 <item> First Negro Nurses Land in England [graphic]. August 21 1944. 1 photographic print. still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Photograph by U.S. Signal Corps. Accompanying caption reads: Twenty-four of the first contingent of Negro nurses assigned to the European Theater of Operations. Front row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Alice Simpson, Atlanta, Georgia, Vernice Eizer, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Catherine L. Harris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Captain Mary L. Petty, Chicago, Illinois, (Commanding), First Lieutenant Ida E. Smith, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Second Lieutenants Dorcas Taylor, Omaha, Nebraska and Estella Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio. Second row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Arlayne Hall, Los Angeles, California, Rubye Collins, Castonia, North Carolina, Dorothy Guy, Newark, New Jersey, Doretha Wadley, Cordele, Georgia, Catherine Randle, Galveston, Texas, and Lucille Scales, St. Louis, Missouri. Third row, left to right, Gussie Danials, Valdosta, Georgia, Julie James, Richmond, Virginia, Doris S. Heath, Cleburn, Texas, Gwendolyn Sykes, Goldsberg, North Carolina and Melba Franklin, Sugartown, South Carolina. Fourth row, left to right: Second Lieutenants Sarah Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, Elizabeth L. Williams, Memphis, Tennessee, Anna Collins, Portsmouth, Virginia, Margaret Lipscomb, Opelika, Alabama and Marion Ridgely, Washington, D.C. No known restrictions on publication.. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...," http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/086_naa.html Collection finding aid available. African Americans Military service 1940-1950. Nurses 1940-1950. lctgm Women Military service England 1940-1950. lctgm Group portraits 1940-1950. gmgpc Portrait photographs 1940-1950. gmgpc Photographic prints 1940-1950. gmgpc Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu b&w film copy neg. cph 3c19985 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c19985 pp/cph pp/afamo pp/diof c-P&P LOT 13103, no. 9 <item> obj. MUMS VM File