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Red Cross Workers Relaxing
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Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff with the ocean in the background. One man is leaning against a Jeep in which one man is sitting in the passenger seat. Kelly is standing next to him and two other men are standing off to the right side. She is wearing pants and a long-sleeved, button-up shirt with her hair tied up in a cloth. There is another Jeep in the background.
1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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