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Title
Hostess House, Marine Barracks
Description
Establishment of a Marine Base at Quantico, VA officially dates to 1917 and declaration of war in Europe, although military leaders had been eying the site for some time. Thousands of Marines were--and still are--trained for duty here.<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 Work Council, National Board of the Young Womens Christian Association
Date
1918-1919
Contributor
Library of Congress / Internet Archive<br />
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Cooper, Ken<br />
Source
YWCA, “Report of the Hostess House Committee” (1919)
https://archive.org/stream/reportofhostessh00nati#page/n0/mode/2up/search/Oglethorpe
https://archive.org/stream/reportofhostessh00nati#page/n0/mode/2up/search/Oglethorpe
Format
jpeg, 785 KB
Type
Photograph
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Photograph