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About this image...
- Title: Untitled Photo Shows: Marian Anderson, Opera Singer, Singing With Hands Clasped And Wearing A Pin In The Shape Of The Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot's Wing Pin Badge, 1942
- Notes: Title and date devised by Library staff based on a photo at the University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 198, showing Anderson receiving her wings from the RCAF in 1942. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.
- Original Date: 1942
- Subject: African Americans--Music
- Subject: Anderson, Marian,--1897-1993
- Collection: Farm Security Administration. The photographs in the Farm Security Administration--Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. Stryker, who guided the effort in a succession of government agencies\: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942), and the Office of War Information (1942-1944). The collection also includes photographs acquired from other governmental and non-governmental sources, including the News Bureau at the Offices of Emergency Management (OEM), various branches of the military, and industrial corporations.
- Collection: American Memory
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