Women's Land Army of America

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Dates:
Active 1943
Active 1947
Active 1917
Active 1919

History notes:

The Woman's Land Army of America was a civilian organization created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLAA were sometimes known as farmerettes. The WLAA was modeled on the British Women's Land Army.

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Subjects:

  • Agricultural wages
  • Agricultural wages
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • Women agricultural laborers
  • Women agricultural laborers
  • Agricultural wages
  • Women agricultural laborers

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Places:

  • 00, US
  • New Mexico (as recorded)

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