Cornell Collection Documents World War II's Africa Campaign

This vodcast offers a preview of an extensive photograph collection recently acquired by Cornell University Library which documents little-known and occasionally controversial aspects of World War II’s Africa Campaign.  Images depicting camp life in one of the U.S. Army’s first racially integrated units, customs of the indigenous people of Liberia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visit to the troops, and Army-sponsored brothels are just some of the collection’s highlights.

Narrated by Chris Metzger from Middlesex, NY, a researcher and photography expert who is helping to assemble the collection, the vodcast takes listeners through some of the highlights of this unique archive.  Eventually many of the photographs will be digitized and made available online.

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Recording produced by Chris Metzger.