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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-297443

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens
(left) and
Ensign Frances Wills

Packing following graduation from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR) at Northampton, Massachusetts, circa December 1944.
They were the Navy's first African-American "WAVES" officers and graduated with the Northampton school's final class.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 84KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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