Scrapbook owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A scrapbook compiled by Army Nurse Corps (ANC) 1st Lieutenant Louise Virginia Lomax and later annotated by her daughter, Pia Winters Jordan. The scrapbook has a blue cover with three silver-colored airplanes flying at center. At the top of the cover is an image of a U.S. Army Air Force pilot badge. Printed in white text on the bottom left corner is [TUSKEGEE ARMY FLYING SCHOOL]. There are sixty-three (63) pages total containing photographs, invitations, programs, and newspaper clippings, accompanied by stickers and handwritten labels. The contents of the scrapbook relating to Lomax's career, friends, colleagues, patients, Tuskegee Airmen and wives of Tuskegee Airmen, and social life during her time stationed at Tuskegee Army Air Field (1943-1946) and then at Lockbourne Army Air Base. Highlights include Lomax's World War II Victory Medal, a letter from the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, Inc.

Explore Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ↗