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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oblong quarto measuring 13" x 10.5". String-tied brown leatherette album with stamped decorations. Contains 392 gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2" x 3" and 8" x 10" with some captions on the verso. Good only album with detached but present front board and some removed images with near fine contents. A photo album kept by a New York woman serving with the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during the end of World War II in the Bay Area. The woman is unnamed but many of the images feature captions on the verso. A large photograph begins the album and shows a group of WAVES during a regimental review at Hunter College in New York. Two other photographs show a group of WAVES singing in a choir during Navy Day 1945. Following this the album doesn't go in chronological order and jumps between the woman's war years and home life just after including a camping trip at Riverview Ranch, beach trips, and a Lake Tahoe vacation. WAVES and fellow Navy men are seen during their off hours in uniform posed in a city's downtown and laughing in a field. One section shows a group of women at an official Navy dinner. The compiler is seen visiting Hollywood in 1946 when on leave from her post in San Francisco. She poses in front of NBC, visits Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and Earl Carroll Theatre. While in the Bay Area the cadets spend their free time in Balboa Park, Chinatown, and sightseeing on the ferry. Additional military imagery feature WAVES and other enlisted men down a main street, portrait photographs, and a dinner at the Monaco Theatre Restaurant in San Francisco. Another section from her post-war life shows a mining operation in North Dakota in the fall of 1946. Towards the end of the album, the compiler and friends attend another enlisted woman's wedding. A nice collection of photographs following a young woman's service with the Navy during World War II and her life after the war.