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Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., between Fall 1942 and April 1943

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., between Fall 1942 and April 1943
Names
United States. Office of War Information (Publisher)
Smith, Roger (Photographer)
Collection

Occupations

War industry workers

War Industry workers- Women

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1942 - 1943 (Approximate)
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Occupations
Topics
War work
African American women
Defense industry
Washington (D.C.)
Card games
African American women
African Americans -- Segregation
African Americans -- Housing
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans
Discrimination in housing
Women in war
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Occupations WW II - Industry - Women - Non - Factory
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16181531
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG03-F224
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3b722300-c6d1-012f-7aba-58d385a7bc34
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  • 1942: Created (Approximate)
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., between Fall 1942 and April 1943" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1942 - 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-842f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., between Fall 1942 and April 1943" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-842f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1942 - 1943). Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., between Fall 1942 and April 1943 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-842f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., between Fall 1942 and April 1943