Lucy Slade Libby Collection
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Lucy Slade Libby orders a drink at a bar
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Lucy Slade Libby poses while ordering a drink at a bar in Saipan, circa 1945. She wears the ANC olive drab skirt, light olive (pink) shirt, and garrison cap. A note with the photo reads, "Officers had a quota of alcohol which they bought. Since I didn't drink alcohol, I gave mine to enlisted men to whom it was not available otherwise."
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Lucy Slade Libby with brother and friend
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Lucy Slade Libby (left) poses with her brother Halcourt Slade and her friend Dot Sheldon, circa 1943. Halcourt was enlisted in the Marine Corps and stationed at Camp Lejuene, North Carolina, while Libby and Sheldon were both stationed at Camp Davis, North Carolina. Libby wears the ANC olive drab service uniform and Sheldon wears the ANC beige summer service uniform.
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Nurses and servicemen at officer's club
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Lucy Slade Libby (left), Dot Sheldon (center), and an unidentified ANC nurse are seated in front three servicemen at an officer's club in Saipan, circa 1944. Libby wears the ANC beige off-duty dress and Sheldon wears the ANC olive drab off-duty dress; both wear hand-made corsages meant to help them "look feminine."
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Nurses quarters in Guam
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A row of temporary buildings that served as the nurses quarters of the 204th General Hospital in Guam, as seen in December 1945.
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Portrait of Lucy Slade Libby
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Portrait of Lucy Slade Libby taken for Edwin Clark Libby, her future husband, in 1943. She wears the ANC olive drab service uniform with matching garrison cap.
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Portrait of Lucy Slade Libby
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Portrait of Lucy Slade Libby, circa 1943. She wears the ANC blue service dress uniform and matching garrison cap.
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Reunion of Duke graduates in Saipan
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Five graduates of the Duke University School of Nursing and two Duke Medical School alumni gather for a reunion around a table in Saipan in August 1945. Pictured from left to right are: Dorothy Sheldon, Lucy Slade, Cabell Young Jr., Marion Meeks, Kenneth D. Weeks, Jean McCorkell, and Isabelle Whipple. All five women belonged to the Army Nurse Corps, although they wear differing uniforms, while the men were both doctors in the U.S. Navy.
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Six nurses of the 176th station hospital in Saipan
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Supervisor Lucy Slade Libby (back row, right) poses with five fellow workers from the 176th station hospital in Saipan, including the Red Cross director (front left). Army nurses, pictured in the ANC brown and white seersucker work uniform, include (front row, l to r) the Chief of Physiotherapy Evelyn H. Hladik Hilsky, Chief Nurse, and Physiotherapist, and (back row) Assistant Chief Nurse.
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Three ANC nurses at a desk
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Three army nurses pose at a desk in Saipan, probably in the 176th station hospital, circa 1945. All of the women, including (l to r) Lucy Slade Libby, the chief nurse, and the assistant chief nurse, wear the ANC brown and white seersucker work uniform. A military vehicle can be seen through the window behind them.
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Three ANC nurses in Saipan
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Three ANC nurses pose outside their quarters at the 369th Station Hospital in Saipan in 1944. The woman on the left wears a civilian bikini; the nurse in the center wears the ANC summer work uniform with turban-style head wrap; and the nurse on the right wears the ANC brown and white seersucker hospital uniform.
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Three nurses at plane wreckage in Saipan
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Lucy Slade Libby (left), Dot Sheldon (right), and an unidentified ANC nurse stand on the wing of a bombed Japanese plane in Saipan," Mariana Islands, in September of 1944. All three women wear the ANC summer work uniform.
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Two nurses at water supply tank
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Lucy Slade Libby and a fellow ANC nurse, both wearing summer work uniforms with turban-style head wraps, retrieve water from the supply tank at the 369th Station Hospital in Saipan in October 1944. Behind the women is a tent filled with cots.
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