The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Shorpy Home Front Photos: Washing Clothes and Waiting for the Parade

June 24, 2016,  DRIP-DRY: 1943.  June 1943.  "Arlington, Virginia.  Washing clothes in one of the laundry rooms at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, war duration residence hall for women government workers."  Esther Bubley, OWI.

July 10, 2016, WAIT WATCHERS: 1943.  July 1943.  Washington, D.C.  "Waiting for the parade ti recruit civilian defense volunteers."  Entertaining themselves with the hand-held device known as a "newspaper." Esther Bubley, OWI.

What is surprising about this photo, especially considering the segregation of the time is that blacks and whites are together by the statue of Union Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock.

--GreGen

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