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Advertisement from a magazine for A. B. Dick Company about mimeographs, showing a WAAC using one.

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A photograph of a modern woman dressed as a WAAC officer with a hobby hat and WAAC Badge, second pattern officer Jacket and pinks skirt.

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Dramatized Photograph of a WAC Reenactor

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This blouse is a first pattern reproduction of the original WAAC blouses for officers. The epelets were worn across rather than up the shoulders, with hidden buttons on the pocket flaps. The material used originally was heavier than the later…

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This hobby hat is made with a khaki cotton and has reproduction bakelite buttons and an original officer's eagle insignia from the WAACs.

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A book, written by Bernadine Bailey, on a fictional story about a young woman joining the WACs.

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A sterling silver pin made by Coro worn by a mother. The daughter could have been in any service branch from WWII.

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A tiny gold pin made by Coro as a sweetheart pin for the Women's Army Corps

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2 Sheets of paper dolls from 1943. Notice that the uniforms use the cross epelets, meaning that the first pattern uniform for the WAACs is being used.

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This Hobby Hat is a 1943 issued hat.  It sports the later generic army logo on the disk.  Note that the side buttons are the Bakelite WAAC logos however, not the army eagles. It was issued before the WAC switchover, and since it totes a later disk,…
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