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Red Cross "Parlor Tricks" Board Members
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Group portrait of board members of the Red Cross sponsored group "Parlor Tricks". Left to right: Jeanette Youngblood, Dorothy Reis, Betty Johnson, Grace Short, Lorraine Thompson, Pearle Erickson, Olive Faber, and Jo Skalitzky. The "Parlor Tricks" entertain convalescent soldiers at the Army Air Force military hospital at Truax Field.
June 7, 1945
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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