YMCA Women in World War I Photograph album, ca. 1918 July-Dec.

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YMCA Women in World War I Photograph album, ca. 1918 July-Dec.

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The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) recruited American women to serve as nurses, aides, and social workers to assist the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Collection (02-294) comprises an album containing 205 black-and-white photographs detailing the work of these women. Images depict women participating in homefront activities, including an orientation conference at Barnard College and a Liberty Loan parade; the transport ship on which they traveled to France; the doughboys they helped there (including photographs of doughboys dressed in drag); and the women and American soldiers in various French villages, often posing with local citizens. No local division for the YMCA is identified for the collection.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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