The work of colored women

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Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1919; Place: New York; Publisher: National Board YWCA
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; Shelf locator: Sc 267-Y (Young Women's Christian Association. U.S.A. Nat. Bd. bWar Work Council. Work of colored women)
Topics: African American women; War work; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women; YWCA
Genres: Books; Photographs
Physical Description: Halftone photomechanical prints; Extent: 136 p. illus., plates, fold. tab. 22 cm.
Type of Resource: Still image; Text
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR2477669-B; Barcode: 33433021575216; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11577080; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 717620e0-c6b3-012f-a863-3c075448cc4b