Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Women's Land Army



An unidentified woman tending tobacco in a Lexington field around 1940.  She is wearing a hat and overalls with the Women’s Land Army emblem.  The WLA was a national effort to supply laborers to farms in the United States.

-Louis Edward Nollau F Series photographs

2013 Women's History Month exhibit by Deirdre Scaggs

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