LEADER 00000nkm 22003017a 4500 001 MODID-00000000001_APPID-00000001175_ACID-000000000061778 003 ScCtBLL 005 20150319194523.0 007 cr u|||||||||| 008 150319s1918 xx nnn us zneng d 040 ScCtBLL|beng|cScCtBLL 245 04 The Woman's Land Army of America /|cHerbert Andrew Paus. 256 Electronic data. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|b[publisher not identified],|c[1918?] 300 1 image file :|bdigital, JPEG. 336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 490 1 Women in War anthology 500 Original document: Poster. 500 GMD: electronic resource. 520 Modeled after a similar organization in Britain, the Woman's Land Army of America (WLAA) was founded in 1917 when the United States joined WWI; it formed again during WWII as part of The United States Crop Corps. During WWI, nearly 20,000 women joined the WLAA. Many of them were higher-educated, and units were often associated with colleges. This poster is for a training school at the University of Virginia. The organization trained urban women,ℓoften referred to as farmerettes,ℓfor agricultural and farm work. 700 1 Paus, Herbert Andrew,|d1880-1946,|eartist. 830 0 Women in War anthology. 830 0 BiblioBoard Core module. 914 MODID-00000000001_APPID-00000001175_ACID-000000000061778
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