See the copy of "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" on the shelf? For these girls the war was still on the other side of the planet. In a few months that would no longer be the case.

I just love those chenille bedspreads.

The real question is, What was Arthur Siegel doing, taking pictures while standing on her bed?

"There! You won my knickers, OK?"

Reminded me of my wife's story of a "party game", when she was a much younger teen. Everyone (all girls) had a blanket to cover up with, "for privacy." In turn, each had to "Take off something you don't need."

Eventually, someone was left with only her blanket, and was told, "It's warm enough, you don't need that blanket!"

In addition to R. Frost and the Hornblower boxed set, let's not overlook "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," by Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown, a rare instance in which the author's name is longer than the title of his work. A screenplay had been made of it, for a 1935 Hollywood drama starring a young Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone.

The type of poker they seem to have been playing.

from the photo title, they were playing poker of an unspecified variety in the earlier photos: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017844190/

There are other photos that show these ladies getting dressed and adjusting their nylons, perhaps for a fashion show?

… is buried here in Jaffrey New Hampshire, with her um, er, cough, close friend Edith Lewis. The Old Burial Ground beside the Jaffrey meeting house is probably the most New England scene imaginable.

["um, er, cough" -- really? - Dave]

Having dipped into those Collected Poems of Robert Frost, she's about to take the road less traveled by.

Interesting assortment of reading on the shelves, including:
Collected Poems of Robert Frost,
Captain Horatio Hornblower, by C.S. Forester,
Stories of the Great Operas, by Ernest Newman, and
Sapphira and the Slave Girl, by Willa Cather.