Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in her Army Nurse Corps uniform
date: label: Date
content: 1943-1947
name: label: Photograph by
content: United States Army Air Corps, American, 1926 - 1947
label: Subject of
content: Louise Virginia Lomax, American, 1920 - 2011
notes: label: Caption
content: Louise Lomax joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1943 with the help of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and trained as a psychiatric nurse at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. By September 1943 she was stationed at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, home of the Tuskegee Airmen. Lomax remained at Tuskegee during the war, where she was eventually promoted to 1st Lieutenant.
label: Caption
content: After the war, Lt. Lomax went on to serve at Lockbourne Army Air Base in Ohio; Provident Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; at VA hospitals in Downey, Illinois; and Perry Point, Maryland; and finally at the Army’s Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. Lt. Lomax retired from active duty in March 1949 and transferred to the Reserve Corps, where she served for four years. She was honorably discharged from the ANC in April 1953.
label: Description
content: A sepia toned photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax. She is wearing a white nurse’s uniform and cap. She is smiling and looking forward, slightly away from the camera. On her proper right lapel is a Lieutenant bar insignia and on her proper left lapel is an Army Nurses Corps insignia pin. The back of the photograph has a stamp at center reading [OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH / AIR CORPS / When this photograph is released for /publication by proper authority, credit / read as follows: "PHOTOGRAPH BY U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS".]. At bottom left is a handwritten inscription in blue ink: [Louise Lomax Winters]. Another inscription, in graphite along the right-hand side, also identifies Lomax as the subject but the full inscription is partially obscured by a repair to the photograph.
place: label: Place used
content: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: Nursing
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1945-1953
label: Topic
content: Women
label: Topic
content: World War II
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Pia Marie Winters Jordan in memory of her mother, First Lieutenant Louise Virginia Lomax Winters, Army Nurse Corps; and her uncle, Sgt. Henry James Lomax, U.S. Army
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2022.42.6
objectType: label: Type
content: photographs
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (image): 6 3/8 × 4 7/8 in. (16.2 × 12.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 6 13/16 × 4 7/8 in. (17.3 × 12.4 cm)