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SPAR Olivia J. Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, 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 Portrait Photographs 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. Hooker, Olivia J
  6. Participation, African American
  7. United States
  8. United States. Coast Guard
  9. United States. Coast Guard. Womens Reserves Reserve
  10. United States. Navy
  11. Women
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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