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(MILITARY—WORLD WAR I—WOMEN.) HUNTON, ADDIE W.
Real
Photo Post Card picturing Addie Waites Hunton in the center of the back row.
Silver print, 3
1
⁄
2
x 5
1
⁄
2
inches, with a note on the reverse.
Chamberry, France, 1918
[400/600]
A RARE IMAGE OF ADDIE HUNTON
, (1866-1943).
Hunton, nurse, suffragist, and civil rights
advocate was one of only 18 black nurses assigned to the army’s colored troops in 1918. The
reverse bears a note “From Sgt Thomas who was on leave at colored Y.M.C.A at Chamberry,
France.” Photographs of Hunton are uncommon.
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