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World War II

1942   World War II Ration Book and Stamps, 1942. 

c. 1943   Buying Victory Garden Seed, c. 1943.   

c. 1943   Mary Yamashita Nagao, 1920-1985. Photograph at Manzanar Relocation Center, c. 1943. 

1943   Women workers at the Federal Shipyard, Newark, 1943, sewing safety nets on a destroyer escort. 

1943   Ruth Cheney Streeter (1895-1990), the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, in military uniform, 1943. 

1944   Women in the U. S. Army, 1944, a photograph of WACs at Fort Hancock 

c. 1945  Joy Bright Hancock (1898-1986), a  military portrait, c. 1945, showing Hancock in her WAVES officers uniform. 

1952     Mary Roebling (1905-1994), a reprint of the article "Banker in High Heels" from the Greater Philadelphia Magazine, July 1952.  

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