Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in her Army Nurse Corps uniform

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A sepia toned photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax. She is wearing a white nurse’s uniform and cap. She is smiling and looking forward, slightly away from the camera. On her proper right lapel is a Lieutenant bar insignia and on her proper left lapel is an Army Nurses Corps insignia pin. The back of the photograph has a stamp at center reading [OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH / AIR CORPS / When this photograph is released for /publication by proper authority, credit / read as follows: "PHOTOGRAPH BY U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS".]. At bottom left is a handwritten inscription in blue ink: [Louise Lomax Winters]. Another inscription, in graphite along the right-hand side, also identifies Lomax as the subject but the full inscription is partially obscured by a repair to the photograph.

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