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Student Nurse: 1942
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 10:23am.
Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, is a student nurse at Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Photo by Jack Delano, March, 1942. View full size.
She is a beauty!
Submitted by Alex on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 12:48pm.
because of her hair style she reminds me of the comics character "Miss Holmes" from the Buck Danny, Franco-Belgian comics series, created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon, which chronicles the adventures of a trio of pilots in the United States Navy.
Here is a scan from the album Les Mystères de Midway (The Mysteries of Midway) (page 39, plate J 083 B):
Nurse
Submitted by sionnac on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 9:53am.
This is a lovely image - what a great gaze she has.
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