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African American veterans, disabled ex-service men patients in U.S. Veterans Hospital, Tuskegee, Alabama, making Buddy Poppies (red artificial flowers) for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Sale which will be conducted nationally during the week preceding Memorial Day

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Caption on back: "Disabled ex-service men patients in U. S. Veterans Hospital, Tuskegee, Alabama, are busy assembling Buddy Poppies for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Sale which will be conducted nationally during the week preceding Memorial Day; All the Buddy Poppies are made by disabled and needy veterans and the entire proceeds from their sale are used for welfare and relief activities; An allotment of a portion of the proceeds is made each year to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Home for widows and orphans of ex-service men in Eaton Rapids, Michigan; A national goal of 21,000,000 Buddy Poppies has been set for the V.F.W's [Veterans of Foreign Wars] 1947 sale; Veterans of Foreign Wars, 489 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C.
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Text
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Created Date:
1947
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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 Soldiers
  2. African American Veterans
  3. African Americans
  4. Armed Forces
  5. Artificial Flowers
  6. Nurses
  7. Tuskegee (Ala.)
  8. United States
  9. Veterans
  10. World War, 1939 1945

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