Content: Caption on back: "Swinging along in perfect cadence, these members of a Negro company at the First Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center at Fort Des Moines, Ia., demonstrate their proficiency in infantry drill. / February 24, 1943 release."

Physical Description

Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, 8 x 10 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b13049857
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG96-F156
negative number: 520-M
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 933a8b50-c645-012f-b18a-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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MLA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an infantry drill at the First Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/933a8b50-c645-012f-b18a-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1943). Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an infantry drill at the First Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/933a8b50-c645-012f-b18a-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an infantry drill at the First Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/933a8b50-c645-012f-b18a-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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