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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