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Title
Hostess House, Camp Wheeler
Description
Located near Macon, GA this mobilization was built in 1917 and quickly reached its peak of 29,000 National Guard and other inductees for training. It was closed in 1919, then re-opened for a period during WWII.<br />
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YWCA Hostess Houses, usually located upon military bases, were created to serve visiting families of service members and to ensure proper conduct among the men—as for instance during visits from hometown sweethearts. Hostess Houses operated within a gendered “separate spheres” paradigm yet also afforded women unusual opportunities otherwise unavailable to them: supervisory experience, for example, and in some cases designing the structures themselves. Almost all Hostess Houses were decommissioned after Armistice.<br />
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This image has been lightly edited and resized for web exhibits; larger file available at source listed below.<br />
Publisher
War Department. 1789-9/18/1947
Date
1918-11
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
National Archives #165-WW-576A-6<br />
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45563862#.Wkuz-dkoPfk.link
Format
jpeg, 565 KB
Type
Photograph
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Original Format
Photograph