Dublin Core
Title
Ink Cartoon
Subject
History
Military Service
World War II
Description
Miriam Rivkin was a Women's Auxiliary Air Corps recruit in 1943. Rivkin was born on July 22, 1922 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and served in the military for two years where she worked as a photographer in India.
This ink sketch by Rivkin depicts a soldier washing up from her helmet. Rivkin noted that sometimes she and her fellow soldiers had to do this when the water was either off or contaminated. The drawing also shows an ironic letter home in which the soldier assures her mother that she "Just took a war bath and feel[s] swell."
This ink sketch by Rivkin depicts a soldier washing up from her helmet. Rivkin noted that sometimes she and her fellow soldiers had to do this when the water was either off or contaminated. The drawing also shows an ironic letter home in which the soldier assures her mother that she "Just took a war bath and feel[s] swell."
Creator
Rivkin, Miriam
Source
Your DC Digital Museum
Publisher
Humanities DC
Date
1945
Contributor
Rivkin, Miriam
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Format
.jpg
Language
English
Type
Drawing
Identifier
0020.YDCDM.2014
Coverage
India
Hastings on the Hooghly River
Washington, DC
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Drawing
Physical Dimensions
1088 x 1520 px
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