Capturing the Women's Army Corps : The World War II Photographs of Captain Charlotte T. Mcgraw

The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women's Army Corps photographer during World War II, offer the single most comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during the war. This collection of 150 of McGraw's photos includes pictures made in Africa, in England at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations, in Asia and the Pacific, and in military hospitals in the United States. Serving from July 1942 to August 1946, Captain McGraw provided more than 73,000 photographs to the War Department Bureau of Public Affairs. Her photographs were published in the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune , and they were used by the Associated Press and the United Press, as well as in recruiting posters, handouts and informational pamphlets, and in the most popular magazines of the era such as Time , Colliers , Women's Home Companion , Parade , Saturday Evening Post , and Mademoiselle . A Former Metro-goldwyn-mayer Camera Operator And The Only Assigned Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (waac) Photographer, Mcgraw Personally Handled The Release Of 73,660 Photos Used Extensively For Recruiting Posters And Publicity. This Will Be The First Collection Of Her Significant Wartime Work And Many Of These Photographs Have Not Been Published Previously--provided By Publisher. Brief History Of The Women's Army Corps In World War Ii -- Captain Mcgraw's Career -- Photographic Art Of The 1930s And 1940s -- The Impact Of Mcgraw's Photos On The Home Front -- Captain Mcgraw's Work -- Army Women Free A Man To Fight -- Modern And Ancient Worlds Meet In War -- People In Context: The Art Of The Portrait -- Ordinary Life During War -- Photographs Of Compassion And Assistance -- Capturing Images Of The Damage To The Landscape -- Conclusion: Reflections On Her Work -- Appendix: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps And Women's Army Corps Military Ranks. Françoise Barnes Bonnell And Ronald Kevin Bullis ; Foreword By Brigadier General Gwen Bingham. The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) photographer during World War II, offer a comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during the war. This collection of 150 of McGraw’s photos includes pictures made in Africa, in England at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations, in Asia and the Pacific, and in military hospitals in the United States. A former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer camera operator and the only assigned WAAC photographer, McGraw personally handled the release of 73,660 photos used extensively for recruiting posters and publicity. Her photographs were published in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, and used by the Associated Press and the United Press, as well as in recruiting posters, handouts and informational pamphlets, and in the most popular magazines of the era such as Time, Colliers, Women’s Home Companion, Parade, Saturday Evening Post, and Mademoiselle. -- Provided by publisher

The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women’s Army Corps photographer during World War II, offer the single most comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during the war. This collection of 150 of McGraw’s photos includes pictures made in Africa, in England at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations, in Asia and the Pacific, and in military hospitals in the United States.

Serving from July 1942 to August 1946, Captain McGraw provided more than 73,000 photographs to the War Department Bureau of Public Affairs. Her photographs were published in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, and used by the Associated Press and the United Press, as well as in recruiting posters, handouts and informational pamphlets, and in the most popular magazines of the era such as Time, Colliers, Women’s Home Companion, Parade, Saturday Evening Post, and Mademoiselle.

"A former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer camera operator and the only assigned Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) photographer, McGraw personally handled the release of 73,660 photos used extensively for recruiting posters and publicity. This will be the first collection of her significant wartime work and many of these photographs have not been published previously" ... Provided by publisher