Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (W. A. V. E. S.) en route to New York City, New York, are (left to right) Miss Durelle Shipley, Miss Willette Williams, Mrs. Elvis Sunday, Mrs. Margaret Powell, Miss Arthurene Pate, Miss Virginia Wells and Miss Mildred Cross. The group of women are shown standing in the doorway of a train, waving goodbye and smiling. They are leaving for primary training at Hunter College. At the bottom left is a train worker.
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