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Dorothy Brooks Washing Dishes, Nov. 24th, 1968

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Dorothy Brooks Washing Dishes, Nov. 24th, 1968. This photo was sent to Dorothy and John Brooks' son, Ellsworth (Elzie), while he was serving in Vietnam in 1968. On the back of the photo is written "your mother in the kitchen washing dishes Sunday morning Nov 24,1968." The Brooks family lived in Coleman, MD. The photo was kept in a small green photo album that Elzie kept as a souvenir from his time in Vietnam. 
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
November 24 1968
Carolyn G. Brooks
Carolyn G. Brooks
English
color photographs
Black Communities - Coleman, Vietnam War military personnel, The Lives and Families of Chesapeake Heartland Oral History Initiative
African American soldiers, African American mothers, Chores, African American women, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Rural African Americans
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