Tinted photograph of Ara Belle Brown Jennings in Women's Army Corps uniform

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

This is a tinted photograph of Ara Belle Brown Jennings in a Women's Army Corps uniform. Shown from the chest up, she wears a khaki military jacket with matching collared shirt and tie. She has round, gold-colored army service pins on the collar of each side of the jacket. The jacket has two upper breast pockets with flap closures and button fasteners. On the back of the photograph is handwritten text in pencil. At the proper top left corner it reads “Mara Brown.” On the proper top right corner it reads “7-6.” In the center it reads “1 – 2x7.” At the bottom proper right corner is a stamp in red in that reads “ORDER EXTRA PRINTS / WRITE / TRIBUNE STUDIOS / IOWA.”

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