Peace Time Registration

Creator

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Identifier

20046590

Description

Tarrant County, Texas is conducting their peace time registration for the draft. Dozens of patients at Fort Worth, Texas hospitals are being registered by volunteers. Mrs. Bertie Lee Kelly is shown signing up Lowell Bodiford. Mrs. Kelly is a registered nurse. She is wearing a hat and a button-up dress. Mr. Bodiford is the manager of the Parkway Theater. He is in Harris Memorial Hospital nursing a broken jaw he sustained a few days earlier when he quelled a disturbance near the theater. He is laying in a hospital bed, signing his registration card on a Life magazine. Published Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning Edition October 17, 1940.

Archival Date

1940-10-16

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1261

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Draft (Military service); Nurses; Hospitals; Dresses; Beds; Pillows; Bedsheets