Content: Caption on back: "Technical Sergeant Willie Burditt, of Sealy, Texas, and Corporal Booker Ward, of Alto, Louisiana stroll along the promenade at Nice, former playground of millionaires which is now a favorite rest center for GIs [veterans of the U.S. armed forces] stationed in France, Germany and Italy; Burditt and Ward are assigned to the 3425 Quartermaster Truck Company, the only Negro unit stationed in Nice."

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
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a40a83e0-c645-012f-a952-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "African American soldiers walking along promenade at Nice" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1945 - 1949. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a40a83e0-c645-012f-a952-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1945 - 1949). African American soldiers walking along promenade at Nice Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a40a83e0-c645-012f-a952-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "African American soldiers walking along promenade at Nice" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a40a83e0-c645-012f-a952-58d385a7bc34

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